Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Gender Roles

Kids at a young age find out what they can and can not do according to the gender rules. Parents try to guide their kids in the right way by the type of gender they are. The short story that by Aaron H. Devor describes mainly how each gender should act and the way the parents raise the kids.

My mother taught me how to be the young lady I am today. I came from a house of 3 brothers and a dad so I always had boys around. Of course sense I was the only girl my parents did not want me to act so much like the boys they wanted to make sure I acted like a girl. When I was little I was always the one allowed to go shopping with my mom cause it was a girl thing and to get me out of the house and away from all the boys. They boys hated that I was always allowed to go but my mom explained to them it was a girl thing. I always was put into a dance class. The dance class was a great thing my parents put me in because it allowed me to get away from my brothers and do my own thing.

The boys were always messing around beating up on one another and at times I would get brought into just because I was always around them. They also played with all the boy toys and sense I was the only girl I did not have many girl toys that lasted in my house. My mom always felt bad for me so she started to get me out of the house and do more girly activities.

My mom was not super strict on me not hanging around the guys she just wanted me to get away from them at times. I believe it defiantly helped me be who I am today.  Being able to do girl things with my mom and dance class just let me be a girl and not have to be around all the boys. I was taught at a young age the difference between what role a boy takes and what role a girl takes.


1 comment:

  1. I liked how you used your own examples, from your life, and it sounds like an interesting, yet at times challenging childhood.

    I was also the only girl aside from my mom, but I only have one younger brother and my dad, and my uncle is over at our house a lot, but I still didn’t have 3 brothers. Either way, I could be called at times a tom boy because I like to do the things the guys do, such as move furniture, wrestle with my bro, help dad with the car repair or yard work, but I also enjoy the ‘woman’ jobs too, baking, cooking, sewing, crafts, etc. I guess in that sense I am just an Oddball.

    It’d be interesting to hear a bit more about your childhood on this aspect, did you ever do the stuff with the guys because you wanted to? Did you sometimes not want to do the girly stuff and just be a tom-boy for a while? Which, girl or guy activities, in the end do you like better?

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