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RE: The Social Birds & the Bees: The socialization of gender, a toy store ethnography
The disclaimer: I am totally....
White, Male, Privileged, Western, Educated, Industrialised, Rich, Democratic....
BUT
I definitely DO NOT relate to the usual stereotype of masculinity. I find it boring. Actually, I think the fetishisation of blokes with ripped muscles and 6-pack abs that the macho alpha-males glorify speaks to a kind of closet homoeroticism IMHO.
I think proto-Taoist Yīnyáng Theory provides us with a marvellous model for us to get over this binary-dualism.
Also, another fun little fact: apparently in pre-Victorian England it was traditional to dress newborn boys in pink and girls in blue...!!!!! Go figure!
A lot of arguments could be made in support of this, haha. It definitely creates a horrendously false idea of what masculinity is.
The yinyang theory definitely would help lend to getting beyond the binary argument.
I did know that tidbit - so interesting! Things like that flip pretty often throughout history.