Blog 1: Gender - a School Bag
Prompt 1: Every year around when cherry blossoms start blooming, a new school year starts in Japan, and there is a lot of ads about school supplies. Almost all elementary schools in Japan require their students to use a certain school bag called “Randoseru”, and I remember myself at the age of six being so excited to use the bag like my older sister. Here, I am not picking a certain advertisement or commercial, but instead, I am going to focus on the system of gender binary at an early age in a different culture. The link below is one of the advertisements from a well-known company. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gIhsX0nreo Prompt 2: I’ve been observing the increase in the color variety of the bag unlike when I was in an elementary. It was usually and almost always a red bag for girls, and a black bag for boys based on an assigned gender at birth. Although new students nowadays can choose a color from a lot of choices, there is the pattern that gender binary defines colors int...