...Should Girls Ask Boys Out? Outline Thesis: Although boys have always asked girls out, why can't girls return the favor; society today has changed and girls are asking boys out. I. Almost everybody is taught that tradition has always been that the boy has to ask the girl out, because this shows that he can be a man and take charge. a. This tradition goes back far as the eighteenth century. b. Most boys who took interest in a girl they liked or were attracted to, nine times out of ten wanted to get to know her and in doing so by asking her out. c. A girl will never understand how much pressure and sense of masculine it puts on a boy to ask a girl out. II. Nowadays, people live in a civilized society with a continuous development. d. Women are stronger and more confident about themselves and certain situations than women in the past. e. Boys do not know how to handle rejection or failure, so they think that they can avoid rejection or failure by not asking a girl out all together. f. Boys would sometimes prefer for a girl to ask them out. III. For those who agree with the idea or for those who do not, there are however pros and cons to asking a boy out. g. It seems sensible to go after what you want and take initiative. h. If he feels like you are extremely interested he might not be that interested. i. As one becomes more skilled, one’s chances of finding, appreciating, and deserving a more satisfying...
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...Americans everywhere with the changing times as women sought more than just their suffrage. As a contemporary issue for its time, it seemed unusual for a situation comedy television show like The Brady Bunch (1969-1974 ABC), which kept to traditional family values, to include episodes with feminism as its main subject matter. However, The Brady Bunch – particularly episode 19, season 2 – made the women’s liberation movement a family friendly topic for America’s living rooms. The episode was not just spontaneous and unrelated from the show as a whole; rather it built on the already established balanced norm that the show established since the very first episode. The Brady Bunch took great strides to maintain equilibrium between the boys and the girls – a mother with three daughters, a man with three sons, and the additional woman, Alice, substance a moderate position and generally does not take sides. Episode 19 of the second season, ‘The Liberation of Marcia Brady’ discusses feminism, but in the end nothing is really broken and the family remains united and wholesome. In a time where there was political, social, and familial instability, The Brady Bunch provided a piece of mind – an assurance that something like feminism could be discussed without breaking up the family – while providing future viewers who would watch the show in syndication (through CBS) a time capsule for...
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...remember that a person’s sex is different than a person’s gender. “Gender is learned. Gender is what people think about being boys or girls growing into men and women. These attitudes and behaviors are learned from society and the culture that people live in. Gender is not what we “are” but what we “do” ”. Society as a whole, teachers , and parents collectively and respectively “teach” gender roles in many different ways. There are many problems if children learn that boys and girls can do only certain things. Those children may not get a chance to use their talents. It is not fair for some children to be able to do things when others cannot. Everyone can help children to use all their talents. Society, teachers and parents can help girls learn to do active things and also quite things. They can teach boys to be gentle and also compete. Children do not need to worry about whether activities are “boy things” or “girl things. “Children who don’t worry about gender roles seem to feel better about themselves. They learn who they are more quickly than other children. They learn to be good at being children, not just being boys or girls.” 1. IMPACT OF WORD USAGE ON GIRLS AND BOYS The impact of feminine words such as passive, sympathetic, cautious, and intuitive all on girls by saying things like “ Let me show you how girls...
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...Everything Changed”, Alma Niles, a girl who is well-liked among her peers is joined by many other girls such as Minnie Halliday and Doris Pomeroy to rise against tradition and decided to defy the rule: That getting water for the class was a boy's job. The story is trying to tell us that gender should never be something that should hold one back from doing what they can do. We arrived at the conclusion that the story is discussing about gender inequality because it is truly what the story is about. a little girl, Alma Niles, who decides that girls should be allowed to carry water to the school instead of just the boys doing. It’s sexist in the way that society's image of boys and men being stronger than females so they get to do the “hard” jobs. But Some people such as Alma Niles have the determination to want to be treated as equal as the boys. On that fateful Friday, Alma ask the teacher Miss Ralston “Why can't girls go for the water too? “Silence filled the room instead of a spark of uproar where everyone instead of just bursting out laughing at Alma right away. This act of righteousness triggers the boys in the class and they start to bully Alma but, the girls stood up to the boys and protected her. The following Monday, the bullying persisted as the boys did not allow the girls to play softball with them but, either way the girls had to wait for the boys to pick out who they want on their team and force the girls to...
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... In the current educational systems, there is no regard for the internal feelings of a male or female on which gender they feel they should be or the personality that they want to develop. Children are grouped by gender in the classroom and segregated in activities based on their sex. Girls learn at an early age that they will be picked last for sports, that boys are stronger than them and better at math and science. Girls and boys are encouraged to behave differently from one another whether consciously or subconsciously by those that educate them. Boys and girls are given different educational goals. Boys are treated as if they are more independent than girls and are given more responsibility in educational settings. Even those that teach children are conforming to gender roles; women teach English and lower grades while men teach physical education and science. Appropriate behaviors and realistic expectations are broken down by gender as well. Boys that speak out of turn and are disruptive are referred to specialists for having ADD or ADHD while girls that act the same way are typically just called chatty or rambunctious. Girls are talkative and boys are more introverted. Children use gender as tools to organize and with little instruction. Each gender adapts to what they have learned to be sex-appropriate behavior. Boys, more than...
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...point out that women are too talkative. She is trying to prove her points through the use of her research from talk show, seminars, and many other areas. Holmes does all she can to demonstrate that women in fact talk less than men. From most of her investigations, we can know that women do not talk too much, and it is men who tend to insist other hear their opinions more than women do. But why everyone would actually care whether women are talking too much or not? This is hard for me to understand. Take it as an example, when four girls hang out to high tea and talk more per hour than four boys being together, why would the boys care since it has no impact on them? What matters most is not how much men and women talk per specific topics but such things is (a) what do they talk about, (b) how much men and women do talk when they are in mixed gender groups and who seems to focus more on making a better environment for everyone present, (c) what does talk mean to women. Different talk intentions The classroom research Holmes mentioned in the article is not comprehensive. “Talking in class is often perceived as ‘showing off,’ especially if it is girl-talk. Until recently, girls have preferred to keep a low profile rather than attract negative attention.” (303) As a matter of fact, boys do not always dominate the class while girls may therefore are proactive during some issues they interested in. For instance, in math class, girls do not seem to talk less than boys. The teacher...
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...When you think of a gift for a little girl, what comes to mind? A Disney Princess DVD? A mountain of pink cupcakes? A toy convertible for Barbie? These are the things that most of us have come to believe that all girls like. These are also the products marketers have created for girls… Notwithstanding the foregoing, there is an ongoing debate about gender-based marketing and in particular with gender-based marketing being focused on young children. . One of the events that triggered this debate was when LEGO came out with a product line for girls called Friends. The TV ad shows wonderful town of Heartlake where “Stephanie” and her friends get to enjoy “all the things girls love”: interior decorating, getting pedicures and baking cupcakes. The sets feature taller and shapelier feminine figurines that lock into pink, purple and pastel green settings, such as a dream house, a splash pool and a beauty shop. LEGO has created this product based on four years of behavioral research. This research purportedly led them to the conclusion that girls like everything pink, romantic and cute [5]. The product has generated outrage. The company was accused by many parents of feeding kids the gender stereotypes and locking them in to blue and pink roles in very young age. Marketing to children is even more of a grey area than marketing to women. When it comes to child psychology the foundation of any debate is the question as to whether their tastes are a product of either nature or...
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...Memory experiment In my research experiment, I will be finding out which gender has the better short term memory recall. I have conducted a Literature Review so that I can review the past experiments on memory. Literature Review The first experiment that I read about was conducted by Liz B, and was conducted from 2004-5. Her hypothesis was that gender had an effect on short term recall. This made it non-directional, since she wasn't sure how gender effected memory, or if it was a positive or negative effect. The Independent Variable was the quiz sheets that were given out and the Dependant Variable was the number of words the students got correct. The results of the experiment was that girls received a better score than boys, however because the difference between the results was so small - with the girls' average at 43% correct and boys at 40% - that Liz felt gender had no effect on short term memory recall. The second experiment was conducted by Danah Henriksen. Henriksen's experiment was conducted to test the memory of an individual. Henriksen’s Independent Variable is the list of words that Henriksen asked the participant to remember, and the Dependant Variable is the short term memory of the participant. Henriksen felt that the participant that he conducted the experiment on was fifty-six year old male 'who seemed motivated to score well, possibly in the hope of combating a reputation for age-related memory loss'. This means that the results are unreliable...
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...Rachael English Comp 1 March 2014 Final Essay #2 Final Essay #2 This song is about a little boy and girl who became best friends at a very young age and fell in love. The girl moved into the big and blue two-story house across the street from the little boy and his family. It was just her mom and she, a rather small family but they were very close. The little boy lived in a smaller house with a younger brother, a mom, and a dad. He had a tree house in his backyard that had been built by his dad and a pool, very convenient for the kids in the summer time. When the little girl moved in it was right before school started for the kids in August and that is when they first met. She was 7 and he was 9 years old. The boy was out in the yard playing football with the other boys in the neighborhood, he saw the little girl sitting on the back of her moms’ red Ford truck. He walks over to her and asks if she wanted to join their game and she agrees. Every day after that it was like that. The boy would walk over to her house and ask her to come outside and play and she would without hesitating. After that they spent all their free time together, every summer, spring break, and weekends just him and her, together. They were always doing something active and he would make dinner for her at least two or three times a week because her family was poor; so he wanted to take care of her. The moms and dads would joke and say they would grow up, fall in love, and be a couple...
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...Deep in the woods, there is a road waiting to be used. A black crow waits under the bright moonlight for its next prey. Welcoming it’s visitors, the Sleepy Hollow sign stands lonely waiting to be looked at. Local news report claims that a couple kids have been kidnapped by a strange black figure on a horse. Rumor has it that the figure goes by the name of, Headless Horseman. The local people are in shock and want to know why he is after their kids. An old story has been told that the horseman lost his head in war while fighting. He goes back to the place where he last remembers, every night to see if its still there. He can’t find it but that won’t stop him. The town people get spooked away and never return back to Sleep Hollow. One night...
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...University Wednesdays 1:00-4:30 11/1/10 “Boys will be boy, girls will be girls” They say: “Boys will always be boys and girls will always be girls”. What does that even mean? Well our society has come to interpret this often said phrase to mean; little boys will always play with their guns while little girls will always play with their dolls. Teenage boys will always play with a football while teenage girls talk on the phone for hours. Men will always watch professional sports while women will still be talking on the phone for hours. Now is this just a stereotype or is this indeed a fact of life? Are guys truly more aggressive? Are women really more nurturing? You better believe it! Gender differences are real and they are simply more than just a serotype. “Boys will be boys” because their brain tells them to be, not because our society does. “Testosterone plays a huge role in aggression testosterone is the primary male sex hormone produced by the testicles. The male is said to produce forty to sixty times the testosterone then women. The University of Wisconsin did a study in which the researchers injected testosterone into unborn female monkeys. Once these females were born they did not nurture or groom their children they acted like male monkeys and began to become more violent and very aggressive.”(York) from that experiment we learn that once the testosterone level was raised in the female monkeys, they acted out more like male monkeys. Thus proving that the higher...
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...Gap 3 Gender equity happens when there is no difference in student achievement in relation to classroom teaching and school environment. Many factors play into the gender achievement gap. Cultural factors, race, and discrimination are part of the gender gap. Cultural factors include parent educational levels, student home life, and income. Family parenting styles in the African-American family concerning the form of discipline, racial socialization, and the level of parental involvement in education may also play a role in the black gender gap in academic performance. Families typically give young boys more independence than young...
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...Aggressive Behavior and the Effect it has on Peer Relations in Toddlers and Preschoolers Satveka Ilango PSYCH 10 8/18/15 Aggressive Behavior and the Effect it has on Peer Relations in Toddlers and Preschoolers Stereotypically, boys are perceived to be more aggressive and harder to talk to than girls and girls are perceived to be more gentle and easier to get along with. Some individuals are more aggressive as children and then grow out of that phase, whereas, other children become aggressive over time and are that way as adults. Today, we will explore the idea of how aggressive behaviors differ between different age groups and how these behaviors affect the relationships that children have with their peers. This is an important topic to because many people don’t realize that aggressive behaviors are a normal part of child development and that they don’t always lead to bad social skills and relationships. A study was done by Deynoot-Schaub and Riksen-Walraven (2006) that consisted of the observation of seventy 15-month-olds in their day care centers in order to try to explain the relationship between how they communicated with each other and their temperaments, along with other correlations. Seventy children were randomly chosen from different child care centers that agreed to participate in the study in the Netherlands and they were assessed for peer-peer interactions and peer-caregiver interactions by visitations to the child care centers made by the researchers and...
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...The Effects of Sexism in “Boys and Girls.” The world is a place where everyone calls “home” but is it really considered a home when sexism exists everyday? When someone thinks about home, it is a place where a person can do anything without being judged or told what to do. Everyone is a human being but why is it that sexism gets to decide what a person's role is? In society, people are “labelled” to do specific tasks because of their gender. Sexism is the main social issue that should not restrict what a gender can or cannot do. There are three main effects of sexism that restricts what a gender can do or cannot do and the three effects are sexism in the work force, roles of the household, and how males and females are portrayed as. Firstly,...
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...limitations of unstructured interviews for the study of boys underachievement at school Unstructured interviews have advantages and disadvantages and as a qualitative method they are expressed through words and relay people’s thoughts, feelings and motivations. Unstructured interviews are interviews that don’t have certain questions meaning it’s more free and relaxed. They give us a deep understanding of the interviewee’s world because we can use the answers they give to shape our questions so that they are appropriate and relevant. However, using unstructured interviews can also cause problems, for example they take a long time to conduct. When looking at the advantages and disadvantages we need to look at how this effects what we are trying to research boys underachievement at school as this will affect whether the advantages and limitations are relevant to the study. A few advantages of using unstructured interviews when studying the underachievement of boys are that the informality of the interview allows the interviewer to gain the trust of the interviewee which is important in this example. Boys at school will not feel comfortable explaining their time at school and why they do/don’t enjoy school if the interviewer is very formal and makes them feel intimidated whereas by using an unstructured interview it allows the boys being interviewed and the interviewee feel more comfortable around each other meaning the boys will be more open and truthful allowing the researcher...
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