This week in sociology we have discussed the differences between men and women when growing up. As boys begin life they are already being influenced by family and family friends to have things that are blue and more masculin features in their rooms. While girls will have a pink room with more feminine qualities. The only way that we can decide weather something is masculin or feminine is by the people who pick and choose what your room will have. If someone where to walk into a room they could see how society has effected this person to make their room the way it is. Biology has no effect on what a new born's room will look like and what their room will look like in the future. Some masculin features of a room might be sports, dinosaurs, astronauts, blue things, etc. All being imposed on the child through his community. Some feminine qualities are barbies, disney princesses, pink things, Animals, etc. This is not a trend that is confined to the United States. Other countries also teach boys to be tough and girls to be graceful and even in school we are taught by our peers to "man up" if you are a boy having some troubles and girls show remorse and support to each other when they are going through some troubles. If we look back only 100 years girls where taught just to be house wives and they could not have some jobs that men could. Still today men are payed more and have an edge on women when looking for work but, still in the past 100 years we have moved forward and continue to today. All in all men and women can be raised differently to be taught that blue is not only for boys and pink is not only for girls but, even today some will look at someone else funny if maybe a man is wearing pink or a girl is playing football. Things can always change.
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