Through genes males and females are physically different, but are their roles already set out for them? What is the cause of this? Boys are supposed to play with action figures, and girls are supposed to play with doll. I believe that it's society that imposes or positions what males and females should or should not do. Similarly and agreeably, in Katha Pollitt's essay, she claims that "instead of looking at kids to "prove" that differences in behavior by sex are innate, we can look at the ways we raise kids as an index to how unfinished the feminist revolution really is, and how tentatively it is embraced even by adults who fully expect their daughters to enter previously male-dominated professions and their sons to change diapers.".
To summarize Pollitt's essay, "Why Boys Don't Play with Dolls," she talks about the cause and effect of why boys take the role of being strong and macho, and the girls play the role of beauty and gentleness. Pollitt claims that males and females" personalities and behaviors are derived from social conditioning, and that there is no need to do studies on brain chemistry or activity. Looking at the way we raise kids, we can determine how incomplete the feminist revolution really is. Toy such as Barbie are for girls. Starting from childhood for a girl, Barbie, with long hair and thin figure, she represents sexiness, thinness, and stylishness. Fitting into their role, women would goes through dieting to gain society's ideal of a woman. As for boys, their mothers would prefer that sons get involved in sport games rather than what is believe to be girls stuff, such baking or reading. Generally, adults impose their "agenda" on children consciously and unconsciously. Therefore, how kids turn out to be are the affects of how adults around them constantly treat them. .
Pollitt state that "It's twenty-eight years since the founding of NOW, and boys still like trucks and girls still like dolls.