ok...so ever since i've had our cat in the house, it's been up stairs in the bathroom that in our house is the "girls" bathroom. (fyi-the cat has something wrong with it so it's in the bathtub) so for the past couple of showers i've had to use the boys bathroom downstairs. and i've noticed something. the boys bathroom walls look like it's a girls bathroom and the girls bathroom walls look like it's a boys bathroom. now i guess in our house this doesn't suprize me much...both me and my mom are a bit of a tomboy type. and well as for the guys in my house, they wouldn't be the ones on top of the manly men list. but it got me thinking. why is it that we get labled with colors. i mean it starts out this way from day one. boys get sent home in blue and girls get sent home in pink from the hospital...why? then it seems to go on in different ways all through our life. look at sports. boys have to play baseball and girls have to play softball. i guess i kinda broke out of the "norm" when i was young. i went and wrestled for 4 years. which by the way didn't sit will with grandma.
why is it that people have to have standerds for boys and different ones for girls, or the other way around?
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I agree with the whole "double standard" thing, but then you get these women who fight for equal wages and don't think they have to do the same amount of work for it.
But yeah....labeling sexes by color is almost like racial segregation....just not as extreme....
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