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Traditional Gender Roles

Sarah Nicole Landry puts her female children into traditional, outdated gender boxes and it’s bothered me for a long time. I remember when her son was younger and he was encouraged to be who he is and wore nail polish and what some may consider non-traditional clothes for boys but she doesn’t do the same for her daughters. She’s all about dressing L up in extremely feminine clothes, always encouraging her to ‘do her nails’ and get her hair done and then drags her to the stupid Disney salon. We never see L out playing ball or learning to ride a bike. She’s taken on walks and then allowed some time to play at the park. That seems to be it. She doesn’t have trucks or cars to play with. All the toys are gendered for females like the Barbies. Even the movies the child is exposed to aren’t diverse. Sarah has mentioned in her stories, more than once, the child does not like having her hair washed so why would she think this is a great activity for her? She did it for the Gram. That’s the only reason. She dresses the pre-schooler in floofy, synthetic fabric dresses in the Florida swamp heat and drags her around pushing her into Sarah’s box.

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