Gender_Roles

Gender Roles Gender Roles(Human Sexuality) Gender Roles While I was growing up, gender roles were highly defined by my parents and teachers as well as all other societal influences. Boys were taught to do boy things and girls were taught to do girly things. The toys that children play with and the activities that are encouraged by adults demonstrate the influence of gender roles on todays youth. In my formative years, the masculine traits that I learned came out because of the activities that my parents had me engage in and the things that they expected from me. The expectations that my parents held for my sister, on the other hand, varied from those that they had for me, and this was made apparent through the different activities that occupied her time. My parents treated us in completely different regard. We had different toys, different friends, and we were supposed to like different things. When I got hurt my parents would say things like shake it off, or that didnt hurt that much, but when my sister would cry, they would give her attention and pull her aside to take care of her. I got into a lot more trouble throughout my life gender, sister, roles, parents, things, girls, different, boys, activities, while, play, always, young, take, remember, out, never, male, made, influence, hurt, feminine, dolls, conform, coaches, because, barbie, athletes, allowed, years, very, until, toys, taught, supposed, standards