Color in toys for example is one way to easily identify weather a toy is meant for a boy or a girl. ... The same can be said about the sections of the store that are set up for young boys. They are blue and black and military camouflage. ... Black and Blue are seen as perceived as colors that are masculine and therefore are placed on items to be purchased for girls. ... A deviation from this gender norm will have a young girl labeled as a Tom boy or a boy as a sissy by others in their age groups which can lead to deviant behavior as seen by the social norms of society. ...

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Census Bureau in 2010 explains that about 70% of the U.S. children population was white in 2010, and about 13% was black. ... In other words, there are more blacks living in poverty than not. ... White privilege is more complicated because it usually happens without anyone thinking about it. ... When parents find out the sex of their newborn, they immediately associate the words "boy " and "girl " with society's perceptions of gender. ... If a boy had a choice between a fire truck and a Barbie doll, our society, and his parents, would want him to pick the truck. ...

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"How about rounding us up some firewood, Mac?" ... "Andy saw that her mothers swimsuit top had come off, so that her breasts swayed free, her nipples looked like two black eyes. ... Andy reacts more like a little boy, because she didn't want to see that part of a woman's physique. ... Before the doe was spotted by Andy, Charlie heckled her, whether she was a boy or girl. ... A boy or girl?" ...

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On the other hand boy have the same hormones in their structure in that case they will have the same desire whatever it is whether they young or not. For instance girls tend to choose light colors like pink o because it makes them feels satisfied since it adds beauty to their world while boys prefer the dark colors like black because they see it full of energy. ... This case is not considered normal in our life because the gender is drifted away whether he is a boy or girl. Many justify these differences by the environment where the children were raised and they forgot about the natural phy...

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What surprised her about her findings was that the teacher responded more often to assertive boys than to less-assertive boys and more to talkative girls than to the less-talkative girls. ... Girls who got the same grades would get praises like "Boy, you really worked had in math, Janey, and it shows!" ... A person will break the schema into two different categories, boy versus girl. ... She painted it black, made it more angular. ... People try not to differentiate between "boy" things and "girl" things, but the underlying problem is our in mind and what we say. ...

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One striking example of this was the story about Professor John Money's recommendation for a boy to be raised as a girl and his surety of the idea that differences between boys and girls are a result of social constructs. ... Money's suggestion to that boy's parents proved to be disastrous, resulting in that boy, David Reimer, committing suicide. ... The aforementioned findings about girls' better hearing is revisited in this chapter. ... He drew a picture using black and did not emphasize people or warm colors like another female student. ... Sax's studies about gende...

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What is really discovered about each of us at that point is not our gender, but simply our sex. ... The two gender categories are, in other words, also interdependent: the idea of "feminine" behaviour says as much about how men are not supposed to act as it does about how women are supposed to act. ... 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." ... However, the truth is that things are never black or white. ... Number six - a "sissy" - a boy who behaves like a stereotypical gi...

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There were blacks and whites that all got along with each other. ... Boy did I get some funny reactions from people. ... I started to realize soon after I did not care about what people thought. ... The story also mentioned about females was a minority. ... I have many white and black friends that I do a lot with. ...

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The economic conditions of the time made it hard for black men to earn respect. Dave's black tenant family works for a white landowner, Mr. ... Hawkins's mule, Jenny, and then makes up a preposterous story about the mule's going wild and falling backward on a plow. ... Dave senses this which explains why he talks about taking a goodbye shot at his "white house" to put a little fear in him. ... The story ends with a kindly white man being cheated out of $50 and Dave, the black boy-man, riding off into the night with nothing but anger, a gun and a long track record of poor judgmen...

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Irma, who is the first to find out about it, begins blaming herself. ... She seems very unconcerned about what people think about her and she wants to do her own thing. ... She almost seems happy about it, and instead of being mad at him like everyone else, she almost encourages it and asks questions about it. ... His father always wanted to have a boy to hand the farm over to, and Roy just wasn't that boy. ... Issues such as these are not black and white and are far from clear-cut. ...

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Are we simply suggesting the difference between male and female is as black and white as initially assumed, or is there more to this notion than meets the eye? ... Some how it is socially accepted for a girl to like sports and simply be considered a "tomboy", but for a boy to like dolls is almost considered forbidden. ... So what happens when a child experiences confusion about his or her gender role and alienates him or herself from the social norm? ... How do we go about this and who holds the rights to determining another human's sex and gender? ... However, an ethical storm of con...

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During this time period of time, it is considered right for Sofia, a black woman to be a maid. ... The consequences for a black person disobeying a white authority figure would be severe. ... A different example of racism is when Eleanor Jane brings her baby boy for Sofia to bless. ... Sofia confronts Celie about the situation and after Sofia and Celie argue about the advice Celie has given Harpo, Sofia signals a peace by suggesting they make a quilt. ... The men in the story are very cautious about their masculinity. ...

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The use of movement is imperative to communicate meaning to an audience and Christopher Bruce achieves this allusion in his work Rooster extremely successfully. He began his career as a remarkable dancer yet when he moved on to choreography his work was nothing less than passionate and humane. Bruc...

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