Pink and Blue: Communicating Gender to Children | Anthony Schullo

Pink and Blue: Communicating Gender to Children | Anthony Schullo | TEDxNorthCentralCollege

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9 жыл бұрын

What do our words and actions communicate to children about their gender roles?
Anthony Schullo is a senior at North Central College majoring in Gender and Sexuality
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

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@carbon1255 7 жыл бұрын

Pink was a boys colour until the past 40 years or so and light blue was a girls colour- representing the virgin mary, and purity.

@MasSamurai 7 жыл бұрын

this guy realllly needs a glass of water. i cant focus because of the mouth noise

@kelsnope8255 7 жыл бұрын

You just completely ruined this for me. I had to turn on subtitles. Oh my god.

@katiekat4457 7 жыл бұрын

Sam Rivera ugh. You ruined it for me too. It's driving me nuts.....lol

@sunni6610 7 жыл бұрын

Oh god no

@harrietokeefe9658 7 жыл бұрын

omg its awful

@franco_lebeau 7 жыл бұрын

Totally...

@laughingtigress9931 5 жыл бұрын

If we create too much of a divide between little girls and little boys, then they grow up to be adults that don't know how to relate to each other. For the first 5 years of my daughter's life all clothes, decor, and toys were gender neutral. She won't wear dresses on the daily but still enjoys dressing up for tea parties. My daughter isn't very girly, but she is balanced enough to have friends that are girls or boys. She is smart and pursues a wide variety of interests. She has the foundation for a lasting marriage, because she can share in the hobbies and interests of her male counterpart. This philosophy worked for me, happily married 16 years now.

@cassandralucia2002 Жыл бұрын

Get this man a cup of water!

@GravitySandwichAnimation 7 жыл бұрын

Stop the mouth sound!!!!!

@og9806 2 жыл бұрын

He has a mic near his mouth.

@phirdeline 9 жыл бұрын

I dont "like" stuff on youtube usually but this one kinda deserves it. His message is so true.

@benardio6193 4 жыл бұрын

Only because you are a woman

@orelskivis 5 жыл бұрын

Oh Yes and everythime when I comment have the same problems with posting ...

@annahunjan8105 6 жыл бұрын

When i was younger my parents bought me gender neutral clothes and toys so i could choose one, other, or both when i started to have a preference

@user-fe2nk3qz2j 5 жыл бұрын

Anna Hunjan … cool story, sis!

@annaf3915 Жыл бұрын

My parents just let me wear my cousins' hand me downs so since there were two boys and one girl before me, I usually wore pants and track suits, very few dresses. I feel like there was less of a distinction back then... For mardi gras, I was a princess once when I was 5 or 6, I also insisted on being the little prince when I was 3 and they let me be. The other years I went from polar bear to pippi longstockings to pirate. Noone ever said it wasn't appropriate. I never played with barbies and preferred my remote controlled car, climbing trees and such. My now 7 year old loved to wear jewellery and dresses and the color pink as a toddler, now he'll only wear dark colours but he makes sure everything pink and glittery and colourful goes to his younger brother who loves it. I wonder if he's living through the little one somehow and it makes me sad to think he's already adapting his taste to what's cool with the older boys.

@6ameliablogger6767 9 жыл бұрын

But how do you do that?? That's what I want to know... It seems almost impossible to subvert them from all of the signals given off by the rest of the world...

@jltorres6320 7 жыл бұрын

Just be aware in your own household. Don't force your kid to play with gender specific toys or wear gender specific clothes.

@mxar2074 6 жыл бұрын

Luis & Julia Torres Also tv!!! Commercials for toys target one gender so they have girls playing with 'girls toys' and boys playing with 'boys toys'.

@helodea 6 жыл бұрын

Don't have to do anything this bozo is saying. Is pure decentralization of gender. Wrong, deviated and sick.

@user-fe2nk3qz2j 5 жыл бұрын

Amelia Jones … only a truly deranged parent would want to subvert their child from the signals given off by the rest of the world!

@maggielarkin7003 Жыл бұрын

By frequent communication

@harryfromwork 5 жыл бұрын

My daughter has both trucks and dolls...take a wild guess which she prefers to play with?

@benardio6193 4 жыл бұрын

Of course dolls

@EatChickenSmokeEgg 5 ай бұрын

As a kid, I (female) wouldn't play with dolls but I would pretend my cars and trucks were characters that could interact and have lives of their own. (But again, I was never interested in dolls.)

@orelskivis 5 жыл бұрын

why did you clear my comment you have a fear from the thruth ?