Advertising, Stereotypes and Pet Peeves.

Definitely baffling. There’s richer territory out there, I’m sure.

Being Oppen

OK, so I know when this started happening (well before I was born and formed opinions) but it baffles me that it still is happening. At the same time it doesn’t, the curse of always being able to see both sides of the coin I guess.

Why is it that children are raised, if they’re male,  to be interested in things, activities, problems, science, sports, solutions, math, art, writing, whatever and it sticks, generally. Where as with girls somewhere along the way, I’m going to say between 9 and 12 years old, we loose any sort of drive for whatever we may have been interested in and totally readjust our focus on – men. Then generally stay with that same drive until we’re about 30, if we don’t “lock one down.”

This was all brought on by a day of running errands and being hyper sensitive to advertising (because it’s…

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