Many of the things that are reversed in the video below highlight how arbitrary (and ridiculous) many gender norms are. It might be interesting to have students consciously reverse gender norms for a period of time and then write a reflection paper about the experience to see if they come to similar conclusions.
Posts Tagged ‘Gender Norms’
Reversing gender roles
Posted in Gender, Teaching Tricks, tagged Class Exercises, Gender, Gender Norms, Memoirs of a SLACer, Reversing Gender Roles, The Flip Side on January 13, 2013| 1 Comment »
Teaching gender with Ponies and Bronies
Posted in Gender, Teaching Tricks, TV Time, tagged Bronies, Gender Norms, Memoirs of a SLACer, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Nathan Palmer on February 23, 2012|
Nathan Palmer at the Sociology Source (which still shows up in my RSS reader as the much less definitively titled “Blog”) posted an interesting video the other day that can be used to review for an Intro to Sociology exam because it is full of sociological ideas. Was it a review of sociological theories? A treatise on race? An examination of the wage gap? Of course not, it was about teenagers reacting to clips from the TV show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and its legion of adoring male fans! I like his idea of using it as a tool for review, though I would also be tempted to use it in a standard discussion of gender norms (one could also easily branch off into a discussion of gender in children’s toys and clothing). The video is below:
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