I found a video that describes some
of the concepts addressed in our “Historicizing and Theorizing Masculinity”
module. One of the concepts we discussed was the history of boys clothing and
how it drastically differ overtime. It also talked about the sexual “color
coding” and how it become a social tradition since the 1920’s. They had baby
boys dressed in blue while baby girls wore pink. This in a way reinforced gender
norms and quickly placed babies in gender constructs. Already, newborns were being gendered as one
or the other thus, also reinforcing the idea that gender is a binary system.
This video I found describes how a Toronto
family has decided to make their child genderless. They decided to name their
baby Storm, and only the family and their close friends, know the sex of
the baby. As for everyone else, they don’t know how to classify if baby Storm
is a boy or a girl. This stirs up the debate that if parents like this Toronto family
are doing the right thing by having their baby Storm viewed as genderless to
others. What do you think about this? You can check out the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi30NAByn0w
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