The first question in people's mind is, do you want a boy or a girl? ... If it's a boy he will grow up to become a firefighter just like his grandfather or a lawyer or possibly run his own company. ... A person can be born with girl or boy characteristics, or probably both. ... At home girls are seen with their mothers cooking in the kitchen, helping out with the laundry, or assisting with the care of their younger siblings. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Peters were assuming their roles as women and cleaning the kitchen. ... She explains how as a girl, a young boy took a hatchet to her cat right in front of her. And if she hadn't been held back she would have hurt the boy. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Peters were assuming their roles as women and cleaning the kitchen. ... She explains how as a girl, a young boy took a hatchet to her cat right in front of her. And if she hadn't been held back she would have hurt the boy. ...

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There are toys tailored specifically for a young girl or toys personalized especially for a young boy. The girls' sections were always filled with plastic versions of kitchen appliances, housecleaning equipment, and baby day-care sets. ... Women were intended to find their place in a kitchen because she was a woman and that was her job. ...

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When she was asked what she would like to be in the future and answered that she wants to be a police, her family started to "Ooh that's so sweet but cop is a boy's field. ... Meanwhile, we do not do the same thing to girls because no matter how hard we push them, they will end in the kitchen for they are so passive. ... Since they know that they will get a baby boy, they start to paint the baby room with blue color and, later, buy "masculine" type of toys such as robots, car toys, gun toys, etc. ... The girls are also taught not to be a naughty girl for "to be naughty means to be a...

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Are you a boy or a girl? ... If a girl goes out to play with the boys, she is called a "tom boy." ... Television shows such as "Leave it to Beaver", gives viewers representation of the perfect family and you will notice that the mom is always in the kitchen. ... Boy Stuff" (Kantrowitz 443). ... The boy gets dirty and the mom washes his clothes. ...

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We are each pronounced at birth, upon the doctor's glance at our genitals, to be a girl or a boy. ... What it really means, however, is that that behaviour will be tolerated in a boy, where it would likely not be tolerated in girls. ... Some such deviations result in the labels "tomboy" (as distinct from girl), "mama's boy" (as distinct from boy), and "butch woman" and "effeminate man." ... Number five - a "tomboy" - a girl who behaves like a stereotypical boy. Number six - a "sissy" - a boy who behaves like a stereotypical girl. ...

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The opening scenes of the film Billy Elliot, directed by Stephen Daldry, helped introduce me to one of the main themes of the movie; that the realization of one boy's dream will be barred by three different hurdles on the way to achieving his goals. ... In one of the very first scenes of this movie, we get a tracking shot of the camera following Billy as he moves through the kitchen. ... In this world of miners who do physical, rough work, a boy doing ballet is a ridiculous idea. ...

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If it is a boy the adjectives to describe him range from handsome to brave and strong. ... Girls are generally seen with domestic toys such as dolls and kitchen play sets. ... Perhaps it is because ever since the early childhood , the boy is given toys that allow him to exercise his strengths and develop the body he will have when older rather than the sitting" pretty toys girls are given which are only to be played while calmly sitting at a table or beside a play crib. ...

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Throughout the story leading up to the scene when she and her father are in the pens, you are lead to believe that she is a boy, until a short exchange of words with a feed salesman who inquires about her. ... She felt that working in the kitchen was endless, depressing and unimportant compared to the work she did for her father. ...

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• Grade Level: High School