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Do you think the gendered labels " for boys" or " for girls" on book jackets

游客2023-12-04  8
问题     Do you think the gendered labels " for boys" or " for girls" on book jackets can influence your socialization? Currently a campaign named "Let Books Be Books" has been launched to break down gender divides in children’s publishing. The following are opinions from both sides. Read the excerpts carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should:
    1. summarize briefly the opinions from both sides:
    2. give your comment.
    Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Opponents:
    Joanne Harris, author of the novel Chocolat: The subliminal indoctrination of children through gendered packaging of books, gives the false message to a new generation that boys must be clever, brave and strong, while girls should aspire to be decorative. The gendering of books is not limited to children’s fiction, but with a growing gender division visible in adult fiction as well as the sea of pastel-pink in the romance section(as if men were neither interested in romance, nor expected to participate in romantic relationships). There’s an even more worrying tendency among publishers to announce the author’s gender(and thereby the gender of their potential readers)via their book jackets, whatever the content of the book.
    Tricia Lowther, one campaigner: Promoting books for boys is like promoting stereotypes about boys—if you say a book for boys is one about football, what about the boys who don’t like football? These books don’t just exclude girls, they could also exclude boys. This is one of the reasons why we see the Let Books Be Books campaigns as crucial to gender equality. If we treat children equally from an early age then they will grow up expecting to be treated equally. Instead we teach them that boys are meant to care about football and dinosaurs, and girls are meant to care about friendship, emotions and looking pretty. Then we wonder why we struggle to get girls so stick with science and sport, why so many men struggle to express their feelings and why women are rated on appearance over ability as they grow up.
Supporters:
    Michael O’Mara, the publisher of The Beautiful Girls’ Colouring Book and The Brilliant Boys’ Colouring Book-. When you have a colouring book which is specifically for a boy or a girl, it sells three times as many copies as the one without the sexual categorisation. These days when people search for a present to buy, they’ll type in "present for boy" and will get a whole bunch of books with the word "boy" in the title. That’s one of the main reasons publishers put boy or girl there. I accept the complaint that these things can look exclusive, rather than inclusive. But it is not going to disappear. While 90% of our books don’t have boy or girl in the title, we are going to continue with these categorisations where we think they are necessary, with these sensitivities in mind.
    VVKhuylo, one reviewer: Research has repeatedly demonstrated that toy preference is noticeable at an age before socialization occurs. And it is not determined by gender but by fetal testosterone exposition. Girls with shorter digit ratios(i. e. longer 4th finger in relation to the 2nd, which is a marker for fetal testosterone)tend to prefer typical boy toys, while boys with longer digit ratios then to prefer girl toys. And this was tested not only in humans, but also in other species as bonobos and several types of monkeys.
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答案                 My Views on the Gendered Labels on Book Jackets
    What happens in the inner world of every individual is intimately linked to social forces, and everyone is supposed to not only be aware of but also question these links if he or she is to be fully free in his or her life. Specifically, the gendered labels on the book jackets of children fictions have been at the forefront of a campaign "Let Books Be Books".
    Opponents like Joanne Harris, author of the novel Chocolat, argues that gendered labels unconsciously implant the gender stereotypes in the next generation, refuting the deviant desire with the strong social norms for the proper behaviour or traits of boys or girls. Furthermore, Joanne Harris points out that the gender division even in adult fiction presumably confines the readership for the book just on the basis of the author’s gender, which echoes with the disastrous trauma in adults, revealed by Tricia Lowther, that is, men with the compulsion of refusing to show and accept affection while women having the obsession with beauty and fashion.
    Conversely, the publisher Michael O’Mara explains that the conspicuous labels provide convenient navigation for gift senders. He further admits the exclusivity of the classification, but asserts his determination to keep labeling which after all provides a lucrative market. Apart from the profitable factor, another argument has drawn our attention to the classical debate between nature and nurture. A correlation between the 2D -4D digit ratio and the individual preference weakens the injurious effect of gendered labels on the socialization.
    To end the seemingly endless debate, we need to acknowledge natural differences and show more reverence towards nurture because it will exert unpredictable yet irreversible effect on our inner heart. Finally, I have a dream that one day we can live in a world where one book is not judged by the label on its book jacket but on its content, and one person is not assumed by his or her gender but his or her preference.
解析 本题讨论的是书籍封面上的性别标签现象是否对人的社会化过程造成恶性影响，命题关注社会与个人成长的关系，发人深省。
在具体行文方面，考生首先需要引出话题，然后分析支持和反对双方各自的原因，再进行客观地总结。反对方认为，性别标签一方面将性别差异强行灌输给个体，剥夺个体寻求差异化的可能，另一方面又限制了阅读群体的选择，从而进一步强化性别差异，导致成人世界里的一些问题，如男性在表达情感方面的障碍以及女性在如何保持美的问题上的误解和困扰。支持方从方便选购的市场需求和有利可图的角度来支持性别标签，以及个人的性别偏好不仅取决于后天的教化，其在很大程度也取决在于先天基因和生理特征，比如手指比率与玩具偏好的关联性。然后再根据自己的思考，针对双方意见，发表个人评论。
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