I enjoyed reading this week’s assigned material for many reasons. It allowed and made me think about how we are often impacted by what we are exposed to and what is being taught to us. We are taught that certain things are what belong to being a boy and certain things belong to being a girl. In other words, pink and femininity is what represent someone who is a female and blue and masculinity is what represent being a male. There seem to have never been a middle line for a while. For me, this week’s material made me reflect on my personal life and how it was for me growing up. As a little girl, some family members would tell me not to play with my older brothers’ toy cars and action figures because those toys are boy toys, and instead, I should play with baby dolls and barbies. However, I never saw them as boy toys or girl’s toys, I just happened to have liked my brother’s toys more than the toys that they wanted me to play with. To add on, there was always constant bickering within my family about how I wouldn’t be ladylike and needed to be more ladylike and dress more like a girl which always brought a certain level of irritation because I simply wear whatever I feel like wearing and what seems comfortable to me. Its those type of things that make me reflect and make me realize that when I have a child, I won’t raise them to think that certain things are only for girls and certain things are only for boys because those are simply labels that we shouldn’t let define who someone is.