The podcast that I listened for the EXTRA CREDIT of Week3 is called Th Problem With Toy Guns And Princesses. The host of podcast invited Rosemarie Truglio of Sesame Workshop and Lisa Dinella, a gender studies professor at Monmouth University to talk. I found this podcast through searching on Apple Podcasts, and here is the link for podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/cn/podcast/the-problem-with-toy-guns-and-princesses/id1461493560?i=1000436806307&l=en.
The most interesting idea to me is actually the main idea of this podcast—how (mini-)toys (or films, videos and etc.) involving factors of princesses and superheroes both reinforce and use nature and nurture of such factors to sell and influence children. There are also 2 other interesting ideas to me. The 1st one is about an experiment that Rosemarie and her colleagues did. When women were given a tough puzzle, the shocking consequence was resulted, “And here’s the clincher: when the women were given a series of really tough puzzle to measure their persistence, the princesses actually quit really faster than the women that said they were not princesses (00:05:31).” The 2nd one is about why we should care about those binary and gender-stereotyped things, “It’s okay for me to like pink things, or like pretty things, or like frilly things, but it shouldn’t define who I am and shouldn’t define what I will be in the future. Anyone who is singly defined doesn’t make a really interesting person (00:10:18).”
The podcast progressed from step to step, point by point, as the podcast showed through the page on the Podcasts app. The host firstly described the background information about toy guns and princesses, then the host introduced two interviewees directly to let them say their opinions or comments about what the host said. There is also an important element of podcast that I found. At the very beginning of the podcast, except uplifting and sectioned background music, the information about podcast was made by who must be introduced.
Hi Jialin! I like the experiment that was conducted by Rosemarie and her colleagues, I think the result was telling me that female we call themselves princesses define the word in a positive way! However, you did not mention much about the "toy gun", I really want to know how does it impact princesses.