gemma hughes's List: Dissertation

• “One of the easiest ways to segment the market is to magnify gender differences or invent them where they did not previously exist,”
• “Segregated toys discourage cross-sex friendships…

•  Kids start to define themselves by age 3, and as part of that process they engage in fantasy play. Boys often imagine themselves as superheroes, whereas girls often pretend they’re princesses.
•  Psychology professor Jean Twenge argues that it just encourages narcissism when parents put their kids on a pedestal and rarely criticize them
• Little kids don’t have the gender thinking like adults but there are forced into it.

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