76101 Study Guide - Final Guide: Michael Kimmel, The Stereotypes, Social Cognitive Theory
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The mother is threatened by the implications of her son liking this supposedly effeminate color. Even though pink is just a color, the stereotypes that come with the color makes the color a threat to the mother who understands the connotations of pink. However, to the little boy, the color pink is just a color like any other until he is exposed to gendered media via television shows, commercials, and even school. Gendered media can said to have two categories his media and hers media, as. Michael kimmel puts it in the gendered society. gendered media influences people through the three stages coined by katie milestone and anneke meyer in gender and. His and hers media starts influencing people at a young age through the various methods of representing gender and continue to impact people"s lives imperceptibly through these representations.
