Was invited to a kindergarten concert by a 6 year old girl, and it was hilarious, yet at the same time I saw gender socialisation at work/manifest
1. The gym item (involving tumbling, jumping, cartwheeling) had 2 girls and 6 boys.
2. For most items where the kids were not in animal costumes or dressed as a flower etc, girls were in pink and boys were in blue.
3. Boys carry guitars but brandish them as if they were machine guns.
4. Girls cannot be trusted to keep their skirts on, yet they have an immense sense of responsibility. A case in point would be the pre-nursery girl who burst into tears when she saw the audience, but continued dancing her flower dance while bawling her eyes out. Very task-oriented indeed. Not to mention a good multi-tasker.
More impressive were the parents and grandparents of those kids who turned up to support their kids. They swamped the front rows, stood on the benches, all just to make sure that even if their digital camera didn't have 12x optical zoom, they would still be able to capture their kid in action. (even if their kid did something embarrassing like dropping her skirt.)
I'm sure the girl in question would really like to have a permanent reminder of her childhood mishaps.
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