Examples for primary sources
*The following advertisements and articles are to serve as examples for primary source material. Notice how these toy and game ads convey to potential consumers that an inequality exists among boys and girls.
According to toy and game manufacturers, items for boys are depicted with blue and girls’ are pink. Our society has accepted this gender-classification as fact, and quite often assigns color to sex.
****Take the test!****
See if you can find any difference between boys’ and girls’ toys in black and white, without the society-dictated color assignments.
(drag the mouse over the pictures to reveal the “truth” and expose the blue and pink)
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