She begins by quoting Firestone to the effect that nature has made woman different from man and society makes her different from a human being.
Childhood seems to pass so quickly and is full of new toys and preoccupations.
The cartoon films are ever more dynamic, the toys more ingenious. These are the constants which repeat themselves from generation to generation, the same stereotypes about how you should behave as a boy or girl. By the age of three, a child has acquired a socio-sexual, gender, identity and selects one of the parents as the appropriate model for behavior. Gradually the child absorbs first the outer signs of gender role behavior and then the mentality. To get an approximate understanding of the deep, hidden shifts in this realm, let us try to make a kind of mosaic or puzzle using the quantitative and qualitative information from sociological surveys, observations, analyses of press and television.