There are no games for boys and girls

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The postponement of the examination of the bill against homotransphobia and misogyny has rekindled the debate on gender issues. To stop stereotypes it is necessary to do it from childhood: in fact, there are no games for boys and girls.

Games in childhood are essential and lay the foundations for the development of the character and aptitudes of the future individual. They allow us to explore, build, learn, move, know, make mistakes and are strongly influenced by the context in which they occur.

Precisely for this reason it is important to teach that there are no games for boys and girls. In fact, every child has the right to play with what he wants, without being the subject of comments and without being denied a game for reasons of gender.

While taking a tour of the children’s shops, it is unfortunately still common to see the ubiquitous ones pink for the games defined by women and blue for those for men. This is the first mistake you make. If from the first years of life you make one distinction of colors based on gender, this will then become normal for the growing child.

This small wrong seed can then lead, for example, to gender distinctions in the workplace, which will cause imbalances in behavior and compensation.

Education must take place both in the family and in school. Eliminating gender distinctions means letting children choose freely, regardless of their sex.

Stop to gender stereotypes

Through the distinction imposed by the adult between games for boys and games for girls, the child absorbs those erroneous dogmas of society which will become the basis of his education.

You should bet on a ‘“colorful” education. It shouldn’t surprise a child who passes the broom and plays with dolls and a little girl who kicks the ball or plays with bulldozers. There freedom of choice without conditioning it should be the basis.

This is a very delicate and complex issue. Eliminating – or at least decreasing – gender stereotypes means weed out concepts so deeply rooted in society that they seem normal. In this way, gender-based violence will also be combated, which is expressed on various levels.