Gender stereotypes easing more for girls than boys

Dan82 · May 13, 2011

http://www.365gay.com/news/gender-stereotypes-easing-more-for-girls-than-boys/

If a girl wants to try her hand at baseball or ice hockey, she’s likely to be praised as plucky. But if a boy likes the color pink?
Well, that’s a toenail of a different color.

Last month, J. Crew unleashed a furor when a promotion depicted its creative director, Jenna Lyons, painting her 5-year-old son Beckett’s toenails with pink nail polish. “Lucky for me, I ended up with a boy whose favorite color is pink,” the caption read.

Dr. Keith Ablow, a psychiatrist and regular guest on Fox News, didn’t approve.

“It may be fun and games now, Jenna, but at least put some money aside for psychotherapy for the kid,” he wrote on Foxnews.com. “This is a dramatic example of the way that our culture is being encouraged to abandon all trappings of gender identity...

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NickT · May 13, 2011

I love how Ablow claims to be a psychiatrist, when I'm pretty sure most psychologists and psychiatrists agree that gender norms and stereotypes do more harm than good.

Emberstone · May 13, 2011

NickT said: ↑

I love how Ablow claims to be a psychiatrist, when I'm pretty sure most psychologists and psychiatrists agree that gender norms and stereotypes do more harm than good.
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remeber, sarah palin, another fox news contributer, claims to be qualified to run for president...

it is fox news. if you are on fox news, common sense says you should be treated with a sense of skepticism.

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