week 3 response to ashley

Ashley,

i think you had a cool experience at work, and it's interesting to see someone put these concepts of gender into practice. There's some definite playing with gender roles here and i think that it is especially good with young kids to do this kind of thing because they are among the most susceptible and also the most innocent of biases about males and females. I could see an agency getting a little annoyed at your action, only because their mindset isn't as forward as yours but I'm really glad the mother had a positive reaction. I believe even more than peers and educators children are influenced by their parent's opinion of gender. It's up to the rising generation to really take action against the binary roles that society tries to relegate them to but it's up to us adults to set that in motion. Nice work Ashley!