Emancipation? Indoctrination? Brainwashing? YOU DECIDE!

[patricialacey]

 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2bldgajJ4s02zjUthMhuleRvFAj3mwDo
I've just discovered this on youtube and I'm uncertain how I feel about it.
My gut feeling is leave the poor kids alone to grow up naturally & if they ask difficult questions try to be honest with your answers.

[Betty]

I don't think you're going to get a reply to this soon. At about an hour per episode, it'll take some time for us to get around to watching all 3 hours worth.

Our average visitor spends only 6-10 minutes here or at stories, unless I just put up a new movie that hardly anyone saw yet.

I might download them while sleeping to run on another screen later while doing something else so it's not bogging down my slow DSL connection while I'm watching them.

My workspace:

[Robyn Jodie]

Actually, it doesn't look like there are 3 episodes -- the second appears to be posted twice -- at least that's the impression I got scanning through it.

I do tend to agree with the premise: there is no chance of getting sexual equality when most young girls are encouraged to be princesses and most young boys to be prize fighters.

I found it interesting that by age 7 most kids have already internalized our sexual stereotypes: women are "pretty," "dainty," and "emotional," where men are "tough," "strong," and the only emotion they are allowed is anger -- even though at age 7 boys and girls are pretty much equal in strength and most other abilities. Also, although boys have been encouraged into play that gives them an advantage in "spatial reasoning," encouraging girls into certain physical and mental activities can erase or reduce even that gap.

One point they make is that it's not the kids who need changing, it's the adults.  Put a boy in a dress and call him by a girl's name they will give him dolls to play with, even if he wants to play with trucks.  Put a girl in overalls and call her by a boy's name and they will give her trucks to play with even if she wants to play with dolls.