Despite social pressure, boys and girls still prefer gender-typical toys

Re:Despite social pressure, boys and girls still prefer gend... by new_realist on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:14PM (#27241716)

Two genders can observe the same thing, but attach different levels of importance to the observation, and have different preferences for imaginative play based on what they’ve observed.

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Re:Despite social pressure, boys and girls still prefer gend... by gnud on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:16PM (#27241729)

Or identify with who they've seen do things in different ways.

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Re:Despite social pressure, boys and girls still prefer gend... by loopz on Saturday May 22, 2021 @04:47AM (#27244765)

Before self identification, there might be external expectations and cues. Survival of children depend on picking up cues of parents, and then peers.

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Re:Despite social pressure, boys and girls still prefer gend... by teachingassist on Friday May 21, 2021 @08:19PM (#27241766)

Any two people will certainly attach different levels of importance to what they observe, I agree.

Given that this behaviour was learned by observation, society's existing gender norms - and specifically those around guns - would also have been observed and learned. We can't separate these, in this anecdote.

Would we not expect to observe the son to engage with more caring play if the stay-at-home parent (primary carer) had been the dad?

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