Seeing Diversity Video: Gender, Gender Identity, and Sexual Orientation

Movies, television shows, books, and toys helps show homophobia and heterosexism without knowing it. Mothers are portrayed in their traditional female roles of the family as cooking, cleaning, during laundry, and shopping. Women working jobs are portrayed as secretaries, teachers, and nurses.The father is seen as the breadwinner who is working a day job making money to support the family. Father roles are teaching their sons to play sports, work on cars, build things. If a girl would like to work on cars or a young boy want to play with dolls, then the homophobia of some parents will appear.

I remember when I was during a service call in Atlanta, GA, and one of my customer's son came into the room where I was, and he was all dolled up with makeup and a dress on, and he was elementary school age because of this"We find the look unsettling today, yet social convention of 1884, when FDR was photographed at age 2 1/2, dictated that boys wore dresses until age 6 or 7, also the time of their first haircut. Franklin’s outfit was considered gender-neutral." (Magiaty, J. 2011). It startle me for a few seconds until I figured out that it was him and not his sister. I spoke to him just like I spoke to him as before. My opinion of him and his family never changed. Until movies, television shows, books, and toys become gender neutral then people's biases and homophobias will never change.

Childhood centers should include books depicting gay or lesbian individuals. Most children in childcare centers will have their first experiences learning about lesbians or gay people at these centers. Some children will have learn about the LBGT community from their families, and the opinion of their family members may be negative of gay and lesbian people. The teachers can ask children in simple children words what do they think of people being gay or lesbian. Children in these childhood care centers should be taught that people in the LGBT community are not harmful. Gay and lesbian people like people of the same sex they are.

Children book can help both children and their parents learn how people can have a different sexual orientation in a simple way. Children will be able to"Come out and not to be ashame to speak about their families." (Laureate Education, n.d). Books on gay and lesbian people should be included because childhood centers are to teach inclusion and not exclusion/

Reference:
Laureate Education (Producer). (n.d.). Start seeing diversity: Sexual orientation [Video file]. Retrieved from https://class.waldenu.edu. Magiaty, J. (2011). When did girls start wearing pink. Retrieved from http://smithsonianmag.com-culture/When did girls start wearing pink-1370097.