I was unaware of the fact that even babies start establishing gender roles. It's not that they are taught who to like but rather how to behave. As soon a baby is born, they're wrapped up in a gender influencing color. Girls are wrapped in a pink blanket and boys are in a blue. From then on, parents start treating their kids according what they believe their gender should be like. Mother's tend to be more attached to their daughters and more distant with their sons, which cause them to behave differently as toddlers. By the age of 1 or 2, girls are more attached to their mothers and boys are more adventurous and independent. This fits along with their gender roles where girls are dependent and boys are independent.
It's strange that this is how many parents are. I realize that when my sister was born, my dad would always call her "my little princess" and then when my brother was born he would call him "my brave young man". It wasn't as though my dad was trying to fit my siblings into a gender mold intentionally, but that's what he was doing.
Weird.
It's weird to think that parents do that to their children but they do! I think that is in part that when parents were younger, I'm sure they were treated the same way based on their gender. This cycle needs to stop. I wonder what the world would be like if more things were gender neutral?
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