The media definitly affects our views of the people around us. This happens especially in the area of gender. Since we were really little there has always been these subliminal things taught to us that boys and girls are different-biologicaly- yes. But we are also taught that boys and girls do different things and there are certain ways that boys should act and certain ways that girls should act..otherwise your labeled as wierd or unsure of yourslef. As always I must include a personal experience to better reiterate my point.
I was at work just this weekend, and a lady and her child came through my lane and she had the cutest baby. The baby had a beautiful smile and the cutest deepest dimples..Anyway..I wanted to say either "she is so cute," or "he is so cute," but because the baby didnt have any "typically" gender specific colors or type of clothes on, and i didnt want to offend the woman by calling her male child a girl and her female child a boy, I simply said "your baby is so cute." As soon as they left I thought about the experience and even though I wasn't trying to distinguish people by what society has taught us, I did it anyway.
It seems as though we have ascribed certain atriutes to men and women that can never mesh or intertwine. We as a society expect women to be dainty and beautiful and like to share thier feelings--and ofcourse that is a generality of how we think subconciosly...We also as a society look at men as the strong bread winner who doesnt care about feelings and is always brave and never cries. This obviously isnt true because we each have different upbringings which influence how we think and how we live our lives.
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