As soon as a baby is born, the gender is discovered. Immediately the wall paper of the nursery is chosen and so is the clothes. Blue for the boy and pink for the girl. As the child starts to make friends and play with others, they realize they are being taught that dolls and tea parties are for girls and trucks are for boys. It is hard for most of us to get out of our comfort zone. If a girl cries it is socially okay but if a boy does, they are treated differently as not as tough. I personally don't think that is fair because we all have feelings.
Identity occurs everywhere! Since the beginning of time, there have been stereotypes. Between the early 1900's to the 1980's or so, women would stay home and cook and the men were going off to work. Identity changes just a little bit as the years go on but so does everything else. Now almost all females go to a job.
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