SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Micropenis, Cisgender, Glass Ceiling
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Media and gender: us preschool books, boys play a more signi cant role 11:1, boys: outdoor/leadership/independence, girls: indoor/passive/dependent. Non-sexists books portray girls as taking on boys role, but rarely boys taking on girls roles: video games. Female characters are often provocatively sexual and voluptuous: gamergate, dad hacks donkey kong so his daughter can save mario while playing as. There are 600 million girls living in the developing world. Tracking: men tracked into math, hard sciences, women tracked into language, soft sciences, stereotype-threat. Falling into a stereotype because you are reminded of it: stem implications, primary and secondary education covers racial and feminist movements (albeit extremely brie y) Lgbtq history is not taught in primary and secondary education: sex education (if taught at all) focuses on heteronormative safe sex practices, exclusion or suspension of transgender students, bullying. Formal events such as prom, homecoming, and formals emphasize heteronormative and cisgender ideologies: homecoming: king and queen.
