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Television Heroes effect on life
Toys play an essential role in defining gender characters. If parents buy their daughters high heels, make-up, purses, doll houses, then they are only sending one set of messages to the daughter(s) saying that this is what you should play with or want to play with. If parents buy their sons toys such as: doctor bags, tool kits, hot wheels, and building blocks, then the message they are sending their son is this is what your future should be as an occupation. I will address children's toys as symbolic bodies may pose narrowly gendered and heteronormative models of adulthood, this article argues children may also begin to counter paradigms of gender and sexuality within unintended, subversive play at home and …show more content…

In my eyes, she represented a balance of beauty, brains, and genuine strength. This Doll showed girls they could be just as powerful as any male. She gave girls of a young age the confidence to take on any obstacle. This is a strong feminine character she stands for in a metaphorical type of way of what a strong woman is. Independent fearless yet still possess the intelligence and beauty of a great woman. I realize how intensely I valued this representation of She-Ra not only as my first reading experience, but also as my earliest visual icon of femininity and feminist agency. Though girls will not become a She-Ra physically they could mentally become her. Referring to their later years when they mature into women by being confident, giving them the mental mindset that even though they are a woman they can overcome any obstacle that the face in life. Providing them a mental version of She-Ra as …show more content…

Until 1968, US involvement in Vietnam existed within the American war tradition in which war was a symbol of masculine courage and mastery. This Action figure is what every boy dreams to be at least once in their lifetime. He is the portrayed image of the male American Dream. GI Joe is strong, smart and courage, this is what a young male admires and wants to obtain these qualities when he is older. GI Joe is a strong masculine character. He portrays the image of what a strong man can be, how he can conquer any situation at

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