Your assignment is to watch a children\'s television show and to make note of th

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Your assignment is to watch a children's television show and to make note of the ways in which gender is portrayed by the characters represented in the program. Questions you might have in mind while watching include: Are boys and girls portrayed according to gender stereotypes? Are the parents? Siblings? Others? What type of play do boys and girls engage in? Do the parents relate differently to boys than girls? What about clothing? toys? etc.? Tell us about anything you notice in the show. What gender messages do you think are being sent to children who watch this show? To what extent should we encourage children to develop and follow gender prescribed roles? To what extent should children be encouraged to become androgynous? Do you think they may be social and cultural situations in which being androgynous would not work in our favor? Do we harm children by requiring them to adhere to social guidelines rather than allowing them to follow their natural (biological) inclinations?

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I have a 5 year old son. I always keep a watch over what he is watching. There is a famous show called as Chota Bheem. There the Bheem a boy reqoresents heroic character, he fights, is smart, takes good decisions whereas Chutki the girl always wears purple or flowery dresses and always supports Bheem, sometimes she is in problems and sometimes her friends are in but it is never been shown that she comes out of problems in her own. The cartoon is only based on his heroic deeds. My son largely gets influenced by such gender stereotypes and he starts jumping, believs that he is a hero and ask his friend a girl, to be chutki and to support him. This is very shocking, we should also tech girls to come out of problems.

We should favour androgynous when it comes to self protection, taking responsibilities such as no responsibility is good or important or bad etc. yes social and cultural fatcors are barriers to such factors, such in islamic culture exchange of responsibilities is hardly allowed.

Yes we do harm children by not going as per their biological inlcination. If they go by their biological inclinations they would more happy and successful in doing what they like to do. Such as a man wants to cook and if he becomes cook then he would be happy doing his work

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