Gender Stereotyping

[Coco]

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/ ... -1-4638851

"Harmful gender stereotyping in advertisements is to be banned across the UK next year."

Is this a serious problem in the UK?

What is harmful about showing a woman doing dishes or cleaning her home... Or a man watching sports on tv or working on his car? What am I missing?

[Donny osmond]

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/ ... -1-4638851

"Harmful gender stereotyping in advertisements is to be banned across the UK next year."

Is this a serious problem in the UK?

What is harmful about showing a woman doing dishes or cleaning her home... Or a man watching sports on tv or working on his car? What am I missing?

You're missing the zeitgeist which seems to be that we can't fulfill roles that society says we shouldn't, or else...

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[cashead]

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/ ... -1-4638851

"Harmful gender stereotyping in advertisements is to be banned across the UK next year."

Is this a serious problem in the UK?

What is harmful about showing a woman doing dishes or cleaning her home... Or a man watching sports on tv or working on his car? What am I missing?

It's this.




What you're missing is when it goes well beyond that. I don't think you understand how much of a corrosive influence that sort of shit has, and just how much representation matters for children and adolescents.


Basically, this kind of thing should be deemed to be "out of order," and needs to be hammered down on.

[Coco]

I grew up in a time when it was more Stepford-ish on tv and even though commercials clearly felt girls should be playing with dolls and dress up, I was out playing kickball and dodgeball with the neighborhood boys... I never felt pressure to do the stereotypical things girls were "expected" to be doing... Banning just seems over the top.

[Mellsblue]

I’ll always favour education and debate over banning. It is a problem, though. My son’s favourite colour from 2 - 6 years of age was purple. This involved a shiny purple wall in his bedroom and a purple bike with purple helmet. It led to comments from various people - I had to slap down the decorator when he said that purple was a girls colour in front of my son - and I had to put up with funny looks from other fathers when chasing my son through the park on his purple bike - fuck them. However, after a few years of school, pink and purple are now girls colours and he’s moved on. Only to gold, though, so nothing too macho!! It may seem like nothing but it does reinforce stereotypes. Stereotypes that lead to primary schools being dominated by female teachers to the detriment of boys’ progress and professions, such as the construction industry in which I work, being dominated by men. There is also the issue of nursing that is viewed as a female only profession and is therefore leading to men who wish to be doctors but don’t have the A-levels to access a medical degree or the financial backing to spend that long in FE avoiding the profession completely due to the stigma of being a male nurse. This has always puzzled me as which 18 - 22 year old man doesn’t want to spend these years surrounded by female nurses.
To cut a long story short, it’s an issue but, as above, I favour education and debate over a ban.

[SerjeantWildgoose]

[Mellsblue]

This is the sort of education I was talking about.

[morepork]

Coco....do not worry your pretty little head about it pussycat. Go back inside.

[Coco]

Coco....do not worry your pretty little head about it pussycat. Go back inside.

Only thing missing from that was a swat on my ass.

[The White Rabbit]

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/ ... -1-4638851

"Harmful gender stereotyping in advertisements is to be banned across the UK next year."

Is this a serious problem in the UK?

What is harmful about showing a woman doing dishes or cleaning her home... Or a man watching sports on tv or working on his car? What am I missing?

A sense of humour?

[The White Rabbit]

I’ll always favour education and debate over banning. It is a problem, though. My son’s favourite colour from 2 - 6 years of age was purple. This involved a shiny purple wall in his bedroom and a purple bike with purple helmet. It led to comments from various people - I had to slap down the decorator when he said that purple was a girls colour in front of my son - and I had to put up with funny looks from other fathers when chasing my son through the park on his purple bike - fuck them. However, after a few years of school, pink and purple are now girls colours and he’s moved on. Only to gold, though, so nothing too macho!! It may seem like nothing but it does reinforce stereotypes. Stereotypes that lead to primary schools being dominated by female teachers to the detriment of boys’ progress and professions, such as the construction industry in which I work, being dominated by men. There is also the issue of nursing that is viewed as a female only profession and is therefore leading to men who wish to be doctors but don’t have the A-levels to access a medical degree or the financial backing to spend that long in FE avoiding the profession completely due to the stigma of being a male nurse. This has always puzzled me as which 18 - 22 year old man doesn’t want to spend these years surrounded by female nurses.
To cut a long story short, it’s an issue but, as above, I favour education and debate over a ban.

Tee Hee.

[The White Rabbit]

[Coco]

Loved those clips Sgt and White Rabbit.

[Mellsblue]

Twatter does have its moments:

[Which Tyler]

Twatter does have its moments: