Name: 【TEDx】Pink and Blue: Communicating Gender to Children | Anthony Schullo | TEDxNorthCentralCollege
Uploaded: 2016-12-06T01:12:05.000Z
Duration: 3 min 47 s
Description: Thousands of YouTube videos with English-Chinese subtitles! Now you can learn to understand native speakers, expand your vocabulary, and improve your pronunciation...

I want to introduce you to my two little cousins:

probably because the Bears actually won a game. (Laughter)

Now, the outfits help, because sometimes it's hard to determine which one is which

But this is where our gender communication to children begins.

Now, imagine for a moment, recall a time when you,

told a young boy to stop crying or to suck it up;

or encouraged a young girl to play with barbies,

>From the beginning, we set a either or path

when it comes to clothes, toys or actions.

either you play with hot wheels or you play with barbies.

We use gender as a way to construct our children's reality.

Now, the work of a communication scholar James Carey,

tells us that communication is a symbolic process

whereby realities are produced, maintained repaired, and transformed.

nor am I even here to paint the world yellow.

What I am here to do is encourage a breakaway from that gender dichotomy.

By communicating, what we believe is appropriate:

language, clothes, attire, actions to our children,

as to what it means to be a man and a woman.

Our reinforcement of that communication maintains it.

And yet, by changing the way we speak and act, we can transform it.

Communicating macho manhood to young boys,

and communicating submissiveness to young girls just won't cut it.

We, by communicating that, are really sending strong signs

what they should do and what they should be,

We use gender as something we must fit into

masculinity for men and femininity for females,

with so many different possibilities and combinations,

Now, I do want to show you a picture of Alayna today.

And, as you can imagine, the pictures I showed you earlier

were two pictures of the same little girl,

but it's amazing how much we rely on our minds

and communicating gender to tell us a little bit about difference.

Now, I'm here to tell you that we really need to think about

the way we communicate gender to our children.

we have the responsibility to think about

so that we can have a society that doesn't see gender

in more positive tones for a more diverse, just world.

Subtitles ListPlay Video

【TEDx】Pink and Blue: Communicating Gender to Children | Anthony Schullo | TEDxNorthCentralCollege

process

applause

positive

determine