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| Eli the Bearded
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12-12-2002 02:33 PM ET (US)
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The female monkeys were drawn to the pot because it was
pink? What if there was a pink Barbie car in there, I wonder.
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Higgins Whilshire IV, Esq
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12-12-2002 02:35 PM ET (US)
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I blame the schools for the monkey gender oppression. No wonder there is so many monkey knife fights.
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| lulu the child psychologi
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12-12-2002 02:45 PM ET (US)
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I actually did the same experiment but with kids and found also that there is a predisposition to gender specific toys... The kids who didn't have a firm sexual identity however (which is usually developed by the age of 4) seemed to choose the opposite sex specific toys as much as the ones for their own gender.
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| mrm
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12-12-2002 04:34 PM ET (US)
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How would monkeys determine that a doll or a pot is a female toy, while a car or ball is a male toy? What rational explanation can this scientist offer to show a gender bias when providing abstract toys like this?
If the scientist spoke a language with gendered nouns, would the interpretation be different? Speaking German, I think the monkeys playing with cars are androgynous.
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| Eli the Bearded
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12-12-2002 05:52 PM ET (US)
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The claim is that cars and balls are male because they are
movement related.
The doll is female for nurturing reasons, the pot is female
because it is pink.
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| Hannah Kincaid
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12-12-2002 07:09 PM ET (US)
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I haven't been able to find a trustworthy link that nails it down with any certainty, but I'm under the impression the blue/pink code is a product of the 20th century and has its roots in Victoriana. Remarkable of the monkeys to pick up on that... Good, churchgoing monkeys, I'll bet.
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| Eli the Bearded
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12-13-2002 03:27 PM ET (US)
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Blue and pink is recent, culturally. It used to be red was
for boys (a good color, strong like blood) and blue for girls.
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