{"id":611,"date":"2021-09-08T18:19:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T22:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=611"},"modified":"2021-09-08T18:19:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T22:19:30","slug":"gender-chloe-fandetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/09\/08\/gender-chloe-fandetti\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender &#8211; Chloe Fandetti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gender is how someone identifies themselves, rather than the sex they were born with. Historically, the media has been full of gender stereotyping and sexism, especially in product advertising, commercials, and tv. With gendered marketing, there is a sharp \u201cpink and blue\u201d divide between what&#8217;s considered for girls and for boys. This can be seen in everyday products, like razors, toys, clothing, earplugs, disposable diapers, and more. I think the example of toddler clothing is very interesting. Many young girls&#8217; tops are cropped so their stomachs show and shorts are significantly shorter than the ones for boys, sexualizing girls&#8217; bodies from a young age. Boys tops have phrases about breaking hearts, being a stud, and flexing their muscles, normalizing messages about toxic masculinity. Girls&#8217; shirts say \u201clittle and loved,\u201d whereas boys&#8217; shirts say \u201cbrave and strong.\u201d I think gendered marketing in toddler clothing is particularly harmful because it tells kids what they should value and how they should act in highly stereotyped ways. In recent years, clothing brands are making more gender neutral clothing for kids, but it\u2019s still pretty alarming to see how gender stereotypes have been ingrained into our society through something as simple (yet still impactful) as kids\u2019 clothes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-612\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/sexist-tops-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/sexist-tops-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/sexist-tops.jpg 614w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-613\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/5cd55b2a1f00002f009ce068.png-235x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/5cd55b2a1f00002f009ce068.png-235x300.jpeg 235w, https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/files\/2021\/09\/5cd55b2a1f00002f009ce068.png.jpeg 453w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 235px) 100vw, 235px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gender is how someone identifies themselves, rather than the sex they were born with. Historically, the media has been full of gender stereotyping and sexism, especially in product advertising, commercials, and tv. With gendered marketing, there is a sharp \u201cpink and blue\u201d divide between what&#8217;s considered for girls and for boys. This can be seen in everyday products, like razors,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/09\/08\/gender-chloe-fandetti\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gender"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}