The game is one of the main engines of learning gender roles in childhood, I could have said this, but this time she was the author of an investigation for the University of Valencia, called Sara Vierna Fernández, who has pronounced the phrase.
"Neo - dresser princesses" is the name of a study that raises the close relationship between role play and the assumption of gender identity. In the 'centers of child beauty' beauty rituals are recreated, with the physical as the center of games and ideas that are transmitted to girls. It is clear that it cannot be pointed out as the only cause, but together with other factors, the centralization of interests in the external aspect of girls may be subordinating the female universe to the male.
According to the author of the study, this type of leisure promotes a sexualization of the game, and the recreation of a 'princely' world full of glamor, luxury and beauty, which - not yet because they are small - but to perpetuate years later, could push for some of these girls to try to fit an impossible and inhuman model. This model taken to the extreme, it can cause eating disorders and other psychopathologies.
Besides that we are talking about a female model endowed with characteristics such as passivity and beauty care; while society pushes boys to have power, be aggressive, develop action games ...
Specifically, Sara Vierna, has focused her work on the children's entertainment company Princelandia, which offers girls from four to 12 years old, luxury and glamor sessions with aesthetic and makeup treatments, so that they feel 'princesses for a day '.
I understand that girls not only include in their games the symbolism of gender relations, but imitation of adults. But sI play from freedom, one day they will paint their lips, another will play cabins on equal terms with the children, another one will take care of babies, and there will still be time to play ball or hide and seek.
Finally, taking into account that situations of control and dependence between teenage couples are being observed, I would take great care to make my daughter believe that her universe must go through create a certain physical aspect to be accepted. Also, as you know, I'm really bored by pink princesses, and I think girls need to be empowered with their real possibilities, starting with a central role in their own lives.
The external aspect is important in its fair measure, based on basic care and hygiene; but nobody should be forced to subject your exterior to impositions.
