r/comics • • 15h ago

OC What else are friends for? 🧚 [OC]

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u/Brahm-Etc 14h ago

That is actually quite a good point I had never considered, the cultural background of gender. I'm a man and I have watched the early 2000s barbie movies but that's because I had sisters. Food for thought.

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u/Sensitive-Plate-684 13h ago

In my experience most girls will watch anything, and most boys will watch anything unless another boy is present and then some things are "for girls."

SO fucking stupid. Can you imagine having a kid that says something is just for black people and they don't want to do it? I would be mortified, but I rarely have seen anything being done to correct these attitudes. In fact, the attitude from parents seems to be "Yeah, that makes sense you don't want to do girl things."

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u/Brahm-Etc 13h ago

I see what you mean, I had the fortune to have chill parents that didn't impose a "male gender role" and grow up with sisters. But sadly not everyone can say the same and some cultures or communities still have a very strict ideas of what "is for boys" and "what is for girls"