School Dress Codes..

I came from a school where I always had to wear a uniform and if something was off from that uniform you got in trouble so I never really had to deal with being able to wear your own clothes in school but still get told what you should or shouldn’t wear. I hear all the time how ridiculous some schools can be with their dress codes and I think it truly is ridiculous to a point for boys and girls. For girls because it is making them out to only be sex items and they have to cover up or they will be too distracting, almost like what is such a huge problem today saying some women are to blame for their own rape because of what they wear. And it is a problem for boys because it is making them seem less capable of handling themselves, they are just too horny all the time, not intelligent. I found this article where students gave their opinions on the situation and some are funny but also true. Take a look.. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/25/dress-code-problems_n_5420985.html Also this picture is from the article.

Boys and Girls Clothes?

Everyone knows how girls dress, we can dress in dresses and pants with t-shirts basically however we want. But boys they can really only dress with pants because if a boy were to dress in a dress he would get looked at weird or talked about and bullied. Why is this? Shouldn’t we be promoting gender equality we want that for girls and women but what about for boys and men. I’m not saying when a girl dresses too tom boyish she doesn’t get made fun of because I’m certain she does but I’m also certain it is way worse and way more unacceptable for a boy to dress like a girl than for a girl to dress like a girl. I think there needs to be a common boundary that if a boy can do it than a girl should be allowed to do it and the same for boys. Who is it hurting if a boy wore a dress? No one! I think people just needs to let go of the judgment and let everyone be free to be themselves and then everyone would be happier. What do you guys think, should boys be allowed to wear dresses?

New Disney?

Ok so we should know the new Disney movies like the Princess and the Frog, Frozen, Mulan, and Brave. When we think of these movies we can think of strong female rolls, that’s what I think when I think about them. But after looking more into it, with Mulan yes she was a strong female role and in the end she came out showing she was a women but throughout the whole movie she had to hide that, she had to act like a man to be accepted. Princess and the Frog is a great Disney movie where they are finally bringing in a character of a different race but again she was a strong female role but she had a man by her side the whole time. Frozen I thought was such a great movie but then I really tired thinking about it and again Anna had the help of Hans and Elsa being such a strong female character ended up with no one. is that because she is a strong women and Anna was more gentle? Finally Brave, honestly I couldn’t think of anything for this movie because she fought for her right to not have to marry anyone and it was just her and her mother on their own most of the time so I thought Disney finally did a good job with a movie and its female roles. What do you guys think? It is a lot of nip picking but it is very interesting once you think about it, also as I mentioned in my last post Disney is now trying to stray away from stereotypical rolls, I guess it will take more time. Here’s a little video clip from the last article that I thought was a little funny but always something serious.

Disney and Gender Roles Cont.

Before I look into how Disney has tried to stray away from the gender stereotypical roles they have placed on the princesses I wanted to continue with the roles they already made. I found this article that has given 9 harmful stereotypes we might not have ever realized Disney taught us. After reading them I thought it was very interesting because they do seem noticeable but we get so caught up in the princesses finding their true love and being happy that we forget about it, forget that do they really need a man to be happy or always have to clean or be pretty or super nice to get the man? In the article it also starts to talk about how Disney is adding in new and different things to movies for how a princess can be but it will take a long time for Disney to fix their wrongs. Take a look and let me know what you think. http://mic.com/articles/88167/9-harmful-stereotypes-we-never-realized-our-favorite-disney-movies-taught-us

Disney and Gender Roles?

I feel like it is no secret that many people feel that the old princess movies although we may have all loved them, they kind of portrayed the women characters as needy, weak, needing of a man, or busy with house work. They showed that yes they were princesses but they also always needed a man to save them, they might have worked hard too but ultimately it was the man that saved them in the end. Also sometimes if you want to be with this person you might have to change yourself a little or be super pretty. What do you guys think? I am going to talk about the new Disney movies and how some things have changed, but before I do what do you think about this picture?

Stereotyped Toys for Children

Do these types of toys look familiar and have you ever seen a boy playing with a “girl” toy or a girl playing with a “boy” toy? If you have what were the reactions, were they good and allowing of that interaction or bad with a reaction like that is not a toy you should be playing with? I think it would be very beneficial for boys and girls to be allowed to play with any toy they want no matter if it is stereotyped as a boy or girl toy because when we only allow them to play with a certain toy or item we are enforcing the “box”. The box meaning this is what you should play with and then grow up to do kind of like the box like Tony Porter was talking about. It might not always be taken to such an extreme but we should never really hold children to a certain category.

Boys and their Toys VS. Girls and their Toys

Boys and girls are known to play with different toys growing up and even have very different isles in toys stores so you don’t get it wrong. Toys for boys when they are first babies are mostly blue and for girls everything has to be either pink or purple. Books that gear more towards boy activities like Bob the Builder showing them almost already that when you grow up this is what boys do they build. Girl books like being a ballerina or maybe even a nurse, I do believe some books have become better but when I was little I don’t remember a lot of girls in books being strong. Then it moves more into boys playing with GI Joes, building blocks, toy guns, and of course toy cars. And for girls Barbie’s, purses, makeup, cooking, and cleaning. Are these kind of things supposed to prepare us or put us in a box for when we are older? I remember when I was little and I saw a boy playing with a Barbie it was a really big deal, but why? Growing up with video games I remember I loved playing all the “boy” type video games like Tony Hawk pro skater or Need for Speed and when I would tell my guys friends at school they would say well you’re just a girl you can’t be better than a boy anyways and why are you even playing those kind of games. I think us as adults now and if we choose to have children should introduce both kinds of toys into our future children’s lives. We need to get rid of this “boys only” and “girls only” type thing sooner rather than later because come on a GI Joe is basically like a Barbie so why should a boy not play with one and why should a girl not play with toy guns or toy cars?

“Man Box” Poll

“Man Box”

The “Man Box” that I was talking about in my last post by Tony Porter. I think this box is very interesting because if you are a man you might see some of these things and be like yes I was told this directly or indirectly of how not to act and how to act. And if you are a women growing up in a house with brothers or having a boyfriend or even your own dad you might see some of these traits. The funny thing is about the first one growing up I was told by my own father not to cry so much that I needed to be tough, and by tough that yes it is ok to show my anger and defend myself. When I would go to him crying, just like Tony Porter with his son, my dad would give me 5 seconds and then tell me to stop because he didn’t want me to be weak. But I also knew I could always go to my mom and let everything out and not be turned around, she would let me cry and not tell me to toughen up, it was ok to cry. I am just wondering how many of you have seen someone get put into the “man box” or have you been put into the “man box”?