In her 2012 New York Times article “Guys and Dolls No More?” anthropologist Elizabeth Sweet likens gender-stereotyped toys to racial discrimination, claiming “every day, people encounter toy stores that are rigidly segregated—not by race, but by gender. There are pink aisles, where toys revolve around beauty and domesticity, and blue aisles filled with toys related to building, action and aggression.” While the pink vs. blue duality is a cultural construction of gender distinction, and while our society has an admittedly abhorrent obsession with physical appearance, “domesticity” is an inherently feminine (yin) trait, just as “action and aggression” are inherently masculine (yang).
Posted on: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 19:20:34 +0000
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