"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.
Re: Gender Stereotyping
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 1:03 am
by 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.
Re: Gender Stereotyping
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 7:58 am
by 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.
Re: Gender Stereotyping
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 8:05 am
by SerjeantWildgoose
Re: Gender Stereotyping
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 8:24 am
by Mellsblue
SerjeantWildgoose wrote:
This is the sort of education I was talking about.
Re: Gender Stereotyping
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 2:15 pm
by morepork
Coco....do not worry your pretty little head about it pussycat. Go back inside.
Re: Gender Stereotyping
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 7:41 pm
by Coco
morepork wrote: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.
"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?
Re: Gender Stereotyping
Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 9:44 pm
by The White Rabbit
Mellsblue wrote: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.