Parenting and Gender Neutrality
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The interaction of social environment, personality, and biology
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What do you think of how these parents are attempting to raise their children gender-free or gender-neutral?
In addition to your own opinion, try to incorporate what Chapter 5 says about the interaction of personality, genetics, culture, and social situation. Feel free to add what you might have learned in previous psychology courses you have taken.
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Target has stopped labeling toys as being for girls or boys. What do you think about that? Click this link to view the short news item and read the article.
Here is an article about a school which has a gender-free environment.
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A brief reminder: gender, sex, and sexual orientation are NOT THE SAME! If you need to refresh your memory before you comment, review "Know the Difference" in the Chapter 5 lecture notes.
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In the first documentary, Julia and Nate Sharpe raise their children in a gender-neutral environment, where they allow their kids to choose based on their preference without instigating the male and female stereotypes. They do not tell them and other people about their children’s sex. This is because they do not want their twins to have limitations in self-expression. After all, males are not allowed to show empathy and vulnerability compared to females, who are always branded for their fragility. They claim that through this, their twins can freely move, speak, and act in the environment they introduced because they do not have any idea of the society’s branding that “some children are she and some children are he.” (NBC News, 2020). Conversely, the parents in The New Yorker (2020) documentary stated that they did not want their child to suffer from the ill pressures of society.
Based on evolutionary psychology, the gender stereotypes were based on the experiences of the people historically, such that men are more inclined to survive while women’s qualities are based on reproduction. All the other stereotyped qualities of both genders stemmed from these philosophies (Myers & Tw...
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