Watch the following video:
Origin of Everything | Why was Pink for Boys and Blue for Girls? | Season 1 | Episode 19 | PBS
After watching and reflecting on the video, answer one of the following (or both questions).
1. According to Ferree and Wade “Our gender binary glasses, acquired as we learn the ways of our culture, “help us see the world the way most other people around us do, but they also help us preserve the binary itself” How are we complicit in “gendering” the world around us?
2. According to Ferree and Wade “Whenever stereotypes are activated, those stereotypes influence our attention, thinking, and memory, and they do so in their own favor.” Stereotypes are so powerful, in fact, that they are a source of false memories.” What do the authors mean by this?
Remember that you need to include a minimum of 300 words. You wil then have to reply to one of your peers (150 word minimum for the response).
The video https://www.pbs.org/video/why-was-pink-for-boys-and-blue-for-girls-6ikwzr/