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The article doesn't suggest social pressure in the form of making fun. On the contrary, it suggests social pressure in encouraging girls to play with boys's toy
by cassianoleal 5y ago
The article doesn't suggest social pressure in the form of making fun. On the contrary, it suggests social pressure in encouraging girls to play with boys's toys and vice versa, although the former more than the latter:
> A 2017 survey from Pew Research Center found that a majority of Americans considered it a "somewhat or very good thing" to steer kids toward toys and activities traditionally associated with the opposite gender (though respondents were less enthusiastic about doing so for boys than girls).
- 0942v8653 5y agoThat survey result has very little to do with the assertion that there is such a social pressure. All it implies is that respondents think it would be nice if there were.
- etrabroline 5y agoWhy do you think those parents think that? Would any parent have thought that 50 years ago? No way.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> Would any parent have thought that 50 years ago? Yes, not only was parents doing that recognized as common-but-not-dominant thing 50 years ago (as a near-50 GenXer, I was aware of it existing and being perceived by adult society that way as a kid), it was even before that a popular media cliche leveraging a social trope that it was a real if eccentric recurring pattern (especially by fathers without sons toward girls) even earlier.
- cassianoleal 5y agoYou do realise that any steering parents apply to their children is social pressure, right?
- 0942v8653 5y agoMy point is that there might be unconscious biases at play in parents, no matter what they might respond to a survey. It's not feasible for parents to account for 100% of their behavior when it comes to something as unimportant as this. IMO, this is something that just can't be determined scientifically.