Sunday, March 1, 2015

Gender Stereotyping: Rose Petal Cottage Commercial


The commercial for Hasbro's Rose Petal Cottage shows us:

  • girls are homemakers and mothers
  • that taking care of a home "is a dream, dream dream!"
  • the cottage is nothing but pink, yellow and other girly/pastel colors
  • girls are to cook, clean, host guests and take care of children
Ways to revamp the commercial:
  • bring in boys
  • show the girl coming home from work and the boy taking care of the home
  • show the girl and boy doing house work TOGETHER
  • bring the girl outside of the house: working in the yard, in the garage or on the car (tasks usually left for the man of the house)
  • change the colors of the house to a more gender neutral colors or paint it to look like an actual house

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