This chapter is about sexuality and gender in social interactions of children. When we are children we are prepared for our assigned gender roles. Looking into play, boys will participate in rough, violate, and competed games. Girls will play turn taking, more gentle games like jump rope. For this reason, play will normally be separated based on sex; it being the same sex. Boys play typically take up bigger areas like sport fields, while girls take up the jungle gym and blacktop. The groups will vary depending on what sex is being looked at. Boys are typically in big groups, which are more pervious to trouble. Girls tend to be in small pairs, normally getting in trouble easier or not at all. Boys will try to break the rules at any given point. For example, some fifth and sixth graders will bring a playboy to skill to share along the group. They try not to get caught, girls would either get caught easier, or not attempt it at all. What’s interesting is that boys will share sexual stuff like playboys but won’t become homosexual from it. This can be contributed to slang like faggot being used as an insult. This suggests that there is something wrong with them and isolated them from others. Girls won’t be as sexual as boys, the girls normally are romantic then sexual. Girls will do use words like “love” or “like” to describe someone’s feelings. The girls may also spend time talking about boys or say that someone likes another that is of lower status as an insult. When reading this I remembered a girl using me as an insult towards another girl. I am not a very popular, or handsome guy so they would say that someone likes me. This would be an insult as I am not seen as attractive, thus embarrassing both the girl and I.
4/22/2019
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