Post AMVLQRBkn54P8ti0mG by zens@merveilles.town
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 (DIR) Post #AMVLQLtUTYUSio7r7I by rgegriff@mastodon.lol
       2021-07-21T13:35:54Z
       
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       Just learned that prior to the early 20th Century, children in the West weren't really "gendered" in that clothing and toys had one gender and that gender was "baby".That implies that at some point in the very recent past, people just decided it was super, super important to loudly advertise what their newborn's genitals looked like to the whole world.Seems like a mis-step if you ask me.
       
 (DIR) Post #AMVLQMc9nUDexL1Wjo by dualhammers@merveilles.town
       2022-08-14T01:47:54Z
       
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       @rgegriff @zens more than likely some entrepreneur decided "two sets of baby toys makes us more money than one" and started convincing everyone of the needed for gendered toys
       
 (DIR) Post #AMVLQNCJd38ulTwP68 by zens@merveilles.town
       2022-08-14T01:49:58Z
       
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       @dualhammers @rgegriff my theory is a post wwii push to start misogyny at birth
       
 (DIR) Post #AMVLQNlPWZDQWKMQng by dualhammers@merveilles.town
       2022-08-14T01:56:25Z
       
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       @zens @rgegriff I'm not sure I'm following the incentive train.
       
 (DIR) Post #AMVLQOCLuOlZrsxwnI by zens@merveilles.town
       2022-08-14T02:13:21Z
       
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       @dualhammers @rgegriff remember rosie the riveter? it happened only because all the men got sent to war. the second they got back though there was an enormous cultural push to put women back in the kitchen and making babies. the “nuclear family” got invented to push people out to more individual homes to sell more blenders- a transition away from large multigenerational homes. the “push” came in the form of television and written narratives around what some perfect 1950s vision of a family ought
       
 (DIR) Post #AMVLQPdgYGDyKwlI2K by zens@merveilles.town
       2022-08-14T02:16:28Z
       
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       @dualhammers @rgegriff part of that whole vision was this story they told over and over again about what happens when a woman gets pregnant, how the father and mother act, what they do when she goes into labor and a huge part of this whole story is nervous anticipation about the baby’s gender, with value pre-judgements about what life would be like with each, usually showing the father and mother having a strong preference for boys, disappointment when it’s a girl.
       
 (DIR) Post #AMVLQRBkn54P8ti0mG by zens@merveilles.town
       2022-08-14T02:19:32Z
       
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       @dualhammers @rgegriff (and cigarette smoking and cigar smoking on the ward)and the narrative usually extends out to post birth narratives and the ongoing resentment the father feels about having a girl. 2 girls. 3 girls oh what a tragedy. is he even a real man?hardcore misogyny training
       
 (DIR) Post #AMWB3rk55scoSAK7KC by Wolthera@mastodon.art
       2022-08-14T09:29:44Z
       
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       @rgegriff I remember reading a essay collection called "Symbolic Childhood", where one of the authors tackles this subject and finds that the separate education of boys and girls led to this gendering, with worried parents making their boys wear 'mens' clothing earlier to have them better prepared, etc. By the time girls got education, the gendering of children had become commonplace.
       
 (DIR) Post #AMWBLWBXysdAo9aV1M by tusooa@kazv.moe
       2022-08-14T12:06:15.871921Z
       
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       @Wolthera @rgegriff i heard that clothes makers make children's clothes gendered in order to sell more.