Question

When you Walk through the aisles, boys’ and girls’ toys and games:

Can you detect a boys’ section and a girls’ section? How do you know?

How do the toys in the boys’ section and girls’ section differ? (Pay attention to number of toys, types of toys, content of the games, etc.)

How are the toys in the boys’ section and girls’ section similar?

What sorts of interactions with other children do the boys’ and girls’ toys encourage? (For example, competition or cooperation? Independence or dependence? Emotional intimacy or distance?)

Which toys (boys’, girls’, or both) are designed for active play? Which seem to encourage passive play?

For what sorts of adult roles do the boys’ and girls’ toys prepare children?

In your paper, be sure to explain what store(s) you visited, as well as the general patterns of the questions above. Also, provide specific examples of toys or games to help illustrate your descriptions. Toward the end of your paper, you are required to speculate on the following additional questions:

How might these kinds of toys influence boys’ sexual attitudes and behaviors?

How might these kinds of toys influence girls’ sexual attitudes and behaviors?

How do these observations relate to the social construction of gender?

Upload your observation notes as well as your paper (Your notes will be graded!) You are permitted to scan handwritten notes, as long as they are legible.

Answer 1

I often visit toy stores for my boy. I usually see that in boy's section there cars, planes, balls, bats ranging from low to high range and in girls section there are dolls, doll house etc. I read many a times abour giving dolls to boys but the boys play more with cars and stuff. Often in the puzzle section apart from basic colours and opposites jigsaw puzzles, you can see that there are also car reated puzzles or super hero puzzles such as spiderman etc which boys tend to buy and often bead related games or jewllary related games are the ones which girls tend to buy. Girls play naturally heps tem develop emotional intimacy unlike boys. There is also a books section and I usually prefer that as they lead to the overall development of brain. Many a times adults only help in getting toys for children being a boy they would buy a car. Even for 1 year old birthtdays what do boys get is cars and girls get is dolls or barbies. They affect the sexual attitude or behvaiors definately. Boys tend to get more robost, while girls tend to get more loving, gentle. Even though these skills may differ when the would join any particular sport or as they grow up and enter into professional fields.