Jerry Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > > So its a boy, right? a neighbour calls out as Kathy Witterick walks by, > her four month old baby, Storm, strapped to her chest in a carrier. > > Witterick smiles, opens her arms wide, comments on the sunny spring day, and > keeps walking. >
This is pretty interesting. There's lots of experiments like this that have been done the simplest of which is to put pre-school boys and girls into a room with cowboy toys and dolls. In that experiment all the boys immediately picked up the cowboy stuff and the girls went right for the dolls. Of course the more interesting experiment would be if you never told your child what gender they were and/or never applied your gender bias to them. What would happen? Pretty fascinating and pretty useful. My guess is that, with the exception of the population that gay / trans / whatever, the gender bias starts pre-birth. That is, the boys will always go for the cowboy toys and the girls will always go for the dolls and that their parents have very little to say about th ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:338157 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
