My Trip To Wal-Mart: Different Color Differences
Toy Aisle Review
For this research paper I decided to go to Wal-Mart. I noticed a lot of differences that I never really paid attention to before. I noticed a lot of differences between the aisles. Obviously aisles had very distinct color differences, pink for the girls, dark blue for the boys. The boys aisle had more rugged and fighting toys while the girls aisle had more dolls and home cleaning supplies. These are the more obvious differences that I saw. There were, however, more differences than just these. In the girl aisles for example, it seemed to be much brighter and happy. As I said before I mostly saw dolls, both Barbie dolls and baby dolls. Within the home supplies, I noticed kitchenettes, easy-bake ovens, and cleaning supplies …show more content…
The colors were mostly blues and greens. There toys were very rugged. Most of the toys were fake guns, action figures, and toy vehicles such as hot wheels. Within the home supplies, I noticed instead of kitchenettes the boys had grills. Instead of vacuums or brooms, the boys had lawn mowers. I also noticed a lot of toy hammers and screwdrivers. As for toy cars, the hummers, race cars or more rugged four-wheeler type jeeps. Boy’s bikes were a lot different than girls. There were no tassels but they had parts that light up and were mostly blue or green. The costumes that were in the aisles were mostly super hero costumes or occupational costumes like a firefighter or …show more content…
It is very good that they are neutral because that allows both genders the opportunity to learn equally. It is interesting that even the way that children learn is neutral even though society works so hard to separate by gender. Even the learning toys for babies, such as the farmer noise maker or any of the shapes and numbers toys are very gender neutral too. This was surprising to me since babies are identified very early on by colors blue and pink. This is the earliest stage in life when the gender identification and roles begin to be influenced into the
For this research paper I decided to go to Wal-Mart. I noticed a lot of differences that I never really paid attention to before. I noticed a lot of differences between the aisles. Obviously aisles had very distinct color differences, pink for the girls, dark blue for the boys. The boys aisle had more rugged and fighting toys while the girls aisle had more dolls and home cleaning supplies. These are the more obvious differences that I saw. There were, however, more differences than just these. In the girl aisles for example, it seemed to be much brighter and happy. As I said before I mostly saw dolls, both Barbie dolls and baby dolls. Within the home supplies, I noticed kitchenettes, easy-bake ovens, and cleaning supplies …show more content…
The colors were mostly blues and greens. There toys were very rugged. Most of the toys were fake guns, action figures, and toy vehicles such as hot wheels. Within the home supplies, I noticed instead of kitchenettes the boys had grills. Instead of vacuums or brooms, the boys had lawn mowers. I also noticed a lot of toy hammers and screwdrivers. As for toy cars, the hummers, race cars or more rugged four-wheeler type jeeps. Boy’s bikes were a lot different than girls. There were no tassels but they had parts that light up and were mostly blue or green. The costumes that were in the aisles were mostly super hero costumes or occupational costumes like a firefighter or …show more content…
It is very good that they are neutral because that allows both genders the opportunity to learn equally. It is interesting that even the way that children learn is neutral even though society works so hard to separate by gender. Even the learning toys for babies, such as the farmer noise maker or any of the shapes and numbers toys are very gender neutral too. This was surprising to me since babies are identified very early on by colors blue and pink. This is the earliest stage in life when the gender identification and roles begin to be influenced into the