I saw Sociology when...

While learning about the gender roles, I remembered a time when I was at the store picking up outfits for my cousins. I walked through the boy clothes section and saw all the blue and darker, sports type clothing they had out for the boys. As I was going through I noticed a little boy and his mom a little ahead of me. The boy was crying because he didn't want any of the clothes his mom was picking out for him. I felt bad for him, thinking he should be able to choose his own clothing if he wants to. I really couldn't do anything about it so I walked away headed towards the girls section.

I walked through the racks of flowers and princess clothes that all the little girls couldn't wait to get their hands on. I realized that the boy and his mom started to walk away from the boys section towards the registers. This meant that they had to pass the girl clothes. And as they were passing the boy stopped to look at a pink girls shirt. His mom tugged his arm not wanting him to even look at the shirt. But when she did that he only started to cry more. She picked him up and put him in the shopping cart telling him that they weren't going to get any clothes at all.

I think that boys learn they need to wear one specific type of clothing and nothing else. And girls learn they need to wear the opposite type of clothing and nothing else. I don't think it was fair to pull the little boy away from the pink shirt. It's not like the shirt was going to give him a disease or make him gay, like I'm sure that mom was thinking. People, even little kids, have the right to wear whatever type of clothing they want. That mother took her sons right away when she wouldn't let him even look at the shirt.