fetch

Some of these aren't exactly political humor, but...:

Callace

so funny. I especially like those on feminism, and on modern day chickflicks/Hollywood crap

fetch

Hmmm, ok, have some more then:

vc318

Those are some good ones, Callace and fetch.

sunnykerr

It might actually be funnier if it weren't so freaking true, though.

Callace

But it is the truth value that makes such things funny.

Wildfire Girl

I am LOVING these

fetch

Wildfire Girl

I LOVE that last one.

Callace

I feel inclined to reject the truth value of that latest one though. I have read some interesting studies of 9 month old babies, who are put in a circle of gendered toys, and videotaped as they choose which toys to crawl towards. And it is almost consistantly so that boys chose boytoys and girls girltoys. Surely, they cannot already have been "indoctrinated"? It seems more likely that girls chose dolls and care professions, and dont become engineers simply bc they have girly brains, and thus have these desires and preferances.

fetch

Neuroscientists are saying that the way people react to babies affect the way those babies brains are maturing.
I don't think we really know. It's the whole nature/nurture debate.

The secret lives of boys and girls - Times Online

We all assume that children are hard-wired to be either boys or girls. People think that if boys’ and girls’ brains are different it’s because they’re born that way. They don’t appreciate that your brain is really just a reflection of your life.”

Wildfire Girl

Interesting debate. I do think it's a mix of what we're taught, and of what's naturally ingrained in us.

Callace

Studies have also been made of only a few days old infants. Of what kind of pictures they want to look at the most. Both are very interested in faces, but girls all the more so than boys, on average. And boys are more into pictures of technical constructions, while most girls consider those uninteresting.

There is also the stories of kids who are raised by suffragette parents, who are given only opposite sex toys. Girls who tie ribbons around their toy trucks, and nurse them like dollies, and boys who has their dolls wage war on each others

sunnykerr

Those studies are all awesome, but I think it's the societal assumptions that girls will be X while boys will be Y that most people object to.

People should be supported in their endeavours regardless of gender.

Callace

but they should be respected for their own endevours, not be forced into positions and interests that they dont have, just bc it is politically correct. Of course women who want to be engineers should be permitted to. But noone should be surprised that the majority of girls actually dont want it. And they should be respected for that too. A female nurse, preschool teacher or housewife deserves the same respect for her career choices as the engineer or CEO gets.