{"id":1556,"date":"2008-06-24T02:59:09","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T07:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2010-11-23T23:47:12","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T04:47:12","slug":"what-kids-learn-at-toys-r-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/06\/24\/what-kids-learn-at-toys-r-us\/","title":{"rendered":"What Kids Learn at Toys &#8216;R Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took these pictures at the Toys &#8216;R Us in Henderson, NV.\u00a0 If you can&#8217;t tell, the picture on the left is the boys&#8217; section of the store, and the picture on the right is the girls&#8217; section.\u00a0 First, why must there be a boys and girls section at all?\u00a0 Must all toys be coded as masculine or feminine?\u00a0 Second, notice how gender is color-coded.\u00a0 Kids can tell immediately,\u00a0even before being able to read, which aisle is for them. \u00a0All this is aside from the content; that is, what toys are sold in each aisle.\u00a0 These are strong and clear messages to children about group differentiation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/06\/toys-r-us-girls.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1555 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/06\/toys-r-us-girls-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/06\/toys-r-us-boys.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1554 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/06\/toys-r-us-boys-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"272\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took these pictures at the Toys &#8216;R Us in Henderson, NV.\u00a0 If you can&#8217;t tell, the picture on the left is the boys&#8217; section of the store, and the picture on the right is the girls&#8217; section.\u00a0 First, why must there be a boys and girls section at all?\u00a0 Must all toys be coded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,373,55,2099,1711,37],"class_list":["post-1556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-color","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-toysgames","tag-social-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29514,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/29514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}