Like dress up games, the color pink....even if you were never a tomboy? Also; is playing dress up games supportive of EVIL PEOPLE? ),:
I don't see why it would be. I used to really look down on anything really feminine, or 'girly', if you will, but that was just my obligatory phase of teenage snobbery. I have one question though: !!????!!??!?!?!??!???? What?
No. Not really. It depends. Parents who follow the blue and pink or boy and girl toy stereotypes for their child are kinda limiting their imagination IMO. Growing up with a sister we exchanged and shared a lot of our initially intended gender specific toys and belongings and had lots of fun with them. It's a lot of the reason I think I'm so warmed up to liking stuff like MLP so easily, otherwise I think I'd have a more harder time accepting it. It's a healthy experience for ...anyone but crucially children to experience things that are "opposite" to their gender. And idk if that even answers your question but yeah. And you completely lost me on the second bit. Sent from my DROID RAZR using Tapatalk
Absolutely not. Gender-specific distinctions, whether aimed at adults or children, are nothing if not counterintuitive - their only function is to maintain age-old, outmoded barriers between the two sexes that really have no business existing in this day and age. If I had a son, I would be just fine with him wanting 'girl' toys...and if I had a daughter who wanted to play with Ninja Turtles (childhood favorite of mine), I'd be positively beside myself with joy. That said, I for one think it's simply marvelous that some places, like Toys R Us, are starting to cease labeling their toys as "for girls" or "for boys".
what of idiot created that separation anyways? the whole thing, blue is for boys, and such is- it irritates me how society separates us. What, are they going to move all the males to mares, or something dumb like that? okay, that was a little too much negativity... sorry... I'm just glad my mum wasn't like that. blue for me? NO WAY! I mainly liked the natural colors (like what you see in a rainbow), although, my favorite was/is red. i remember playing with barbies, and watch reruns of MLP G1, at a friends place when i was ten thinking nothing of it. i had a carefree world... ah, how i sometimes miss my childhood- er- anyways. i'm glad that at least a few stores are finally breaking down those age-old barriers allowing more freedom.
[video=youtube;-CU040Hqbas]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CU040Hqbas[/video] Basically, marketability is being able to pinpoint a significant target audience and provide for a need/want had by the aforementioned target audience. This need/want is filled during the lifetime of one generation, and then all future generations come to look at it as being constant and natural. The true fact of the matter is that you are allowed to like whatever you want, regardless of your age/sex/gender/sexuality/height/weight/nationality/ethnicity or other traits. As for dress-up games, those are just for fun. You can wear whatever clothes you want; that's your right. You have the ability to choose what you like or wear. Other people are going to make judgements of you based on what society has taught them is natural, but you aren't obligated to care about those kinds of closed-minded assessments of your character. If you are a girl, you can like whatever you want. There is actually no such thing as inherently "girly things" or "boyish things" because those are just society's gender roles that it has laid out for you. However, society can't force you to follow those roles; you have to choose who you want to be. No worries! I'm sure there's nothing wrong with it.
Not really because the gender roles are a load of social/government/marketing crap that don't mean anything realistically.
The answer is quite simple. No. If you enjoy doing things that aren't fit for the current societal definition of 'ordinary' for your gender, such as doing your nails as a guy, or weightlifting as a woman, or all manner of things, it doesn't make you 'evil' or 'wrong', it makes you who you are. Frankly, I'm getting tired of people being told what to be. We should let our children and friends decide that for themselves.
I do think it is stupid that society tells boys and girls that their interests should share such a narrow middle ground. When I was a kid, I liked playing with dolls just as much as my female cousins did. I played with them whenever I went over to my aunt's and never felt like I was being judged (unless my stepdad was there). I still preferred to do 'boy things' most of the time. However, society told me that that was a no no so I never told any of my friends about it. The same went with 'girly' cartoons like PPG and Sailor Moon. Maybe that was just my pre-adolescent paranoia and fear of bullying, which mind you was not unfounded, but just the same it was my secret. I guess the remnants of that can be blamed for my self-consciousness about being a brony. It's weird how petty things like that can still affect you when you get older.
Eh...it depends. Do I think it should matter if you like something that's outside the norm for your gender? No, not really. Does everyone else in the world? Yeah, pretty much. This forum and he people on it (awesome as you all are) are predispositioned to be biased towards this question just for the fact that we're all here. We are all of a similar mindset: as in, we're all pretty open-minded about gender roles and such. If you don't believe me take note of the fact that every answer to this topic so far has been the same. So what I'm getting at is this: If you decide to do something outside of societies norms, prepare to get some weird looks. Because most of the world is not as open-minded as we may be.
It's quite funny actually because pink used to be a boy's color. Pink was considered more 'manly' because it had red in it, or passion. Blue was a lighter color and considered to be for girls. I don't see anything wrong with liking 'girly' stuff. I like romantic comedies, well anime specifically. I like the show, obviously. I also enjoy LPS, but that's another matter. I don't like pink honestly but it doesn't bother me. I prefer darker colors myself. I enjoy cute things. The quickest way to my heart is by some overly cute picture that makes me leak 'liquid pride'. I don't know why but I just absolutely love cute. I'm not sure about the dress up game thing.
I can actually think of one or two girl things that it might be considered universally wrong to like... :derpe:
I get the feeling this is a 'Preaching to the Choir' kinda thing here. We apparently all enjoy a little infusion of girly and boy stuff. I think it's usually the perception that girl things are often seen as pandering and without merit. Anyone legitimately enjoy Barbie Movies? I'm willing to bet it's a small number.
Well, it's like Equestria Girls, but with more pink stuff. (Yeah i watched one a long time ago. Sue me. (and i hated it))
As far as i know i think it is only really wrong to like barbie becuse WE WITH ONES CANTERLOT VOICE THINK IT SUCKETH AND THAT IS THAT!
