For the interactive portion of this project I propose this question: After watching the video and taking in the responses of the children, reflect on how many of these are apart of the long lists of stereotypes found in the week 4 folder under “Class Resources”. How did the way you were raised as a child impact your perceptions of gender? What were you taught as a child and how has that changed as you’ve grown up? What forms of stereotypical gender norms did you participate in growing up? (ex: as a girl: playing with dolls, wearing pink / as a boy: playing with trucks, wearing blue)

In this picture, the girl that is highlighted in pink is playing with the boy toys that are highlighted in blue, and the boy is highlighted in blue and he is playing with the pink highlighted toys. As I grow up I find it riveting that as children we are constricted of expressing our creativity and interests because it most likely creates questions regarding sexuality. I can’t speak for everyone but when I was little I wasn’t allowed to play with “boy” toys because they weren't “lady-like”. Even as I grow older I sometimes restrain myself from doing anything that is considered for boys like watching sports, and playing video games because I was always taught that as a girl I couldn’t be interested in such things. 

This picture speaks to me because its what i wish was a normal reality. We shouldn’t be constricting children from expressing themselves and figuring out who they are at a young age. It should not matter if a girl picks up a wrestling figure and it should not matter if a boy plays with a barbie because they are just kids and they should not be defined by what realistic genderless item they are picking up.