This is a baby girl pin from a baby shower I once attended
and it is important because it shows gender socialization. Gender socialization
is the nudges into different paths of life we are given based solely on our
gender. This pin is obviously pink; because society thinks the only color baby
girls like is pink. At this baby shower we had obviously not met the two twin
baby girls coming into the world, but we all knew they would love pink,
sparkles, they would be pros at laundry, be able to cook a mean meatloaf, and
they would definitely be dating the sports superstars at their school. All of
this was determined just by this little pink pin that told us they were girls.
We generalize gender to an extreme and we expect children to grow up under
those standards.
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