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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son is in a school that bans media (waldorf).  Now, the parents don't live up to it 100%, but these kids watch A LOT less than other kids.  They do live in our culture and so aren't completely exempt from gender norms, but it is amazing what you see on the playground - all the kids playing together in very similar ways.  Biological differences do not manifest themselves in the ways we think they do (trucks on the one hand and tutus on the other is a great example of our nonsensical gender norming). Much of this stuff is learned though media.

That said.  I still think you should just smile and say, "sometimes."[/quote]

Is the end goal to have us all male and female dress alike and have similar social expectations and duties a la 1984? Will everyone feel better then? [/quote]

No, the goal is to let individual boys and girls be individuals without forcing on them a conception of what a girl or a boy should and shouldn't like.  And yes, I do think expectations of appropriate behavior should be the same for all kids (i.e. it isn't acceptable to be aggressive and out of control even if your are "all boy").[/quote]

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