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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel like traditional gender norms are far more enrenched and visible now.

I grew up in the 70s/80s. Maybe it was because I lived out in the country and lots of kids were rural and farm kids but no one cared about gender really at all. There was no such thing as gender non conforming. Boys and girls had long hair or short hair, everyone just wore whatever they wanted. I was a tomboy, had short hair, wore boys clothes, played in the dirt, etc and no one ever said anything - no one cared at all.

There would have likely been a little more pushback if a boy had worn a dress or a skirt or something but we all just did what we wanted. Traditional gender norms and expectations now mean that any girl who sin't feminine and into pink and glitter is non binary or gender non conforming and any boy who isn't masculine is seen as the same. This isn't progressive, this is going backwards. [/quote]
I agree 
In the 80s if you wanted a flashlight you had a choice of red or blue. 
Coats, blue, black, brown 
Water bottle, blue red or silver..
You get the drift

Now we’ve made everything to gender specific, and for kids  that don’t fit that box it’s confusing. Marketers and retailers did this. There is nothing wrong with our kids. [/quote]

Agreed, colours and options were far more unisex. I wore a lot of my brother's hand me downs. Nothing was pink and purple and marketed as girls or boys colours. We played with the same lego, rode the same bikes, used each other's jackets and school bags etc. [/quote]

The 1980s were when the gendererization of colors and products for children started. It’s been studied by sociologists. This was a backlash against the gender-neutral child rearing of the late 1960s and 1970s. Moms raised in corduroy overalls playing with plain wooden blocks wanted girly clothing and toys for their daughters. Mattel and company just met the demand. [/quote]

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