Today in class we talked about how people are gender stereotyped even before they are born and it got me thinking about what my parents did for my brothers and i when we were born. My parents decided not to find out the sex of my brothers or i before we were born and i was the third born. Having already been pregnant with two boys my mother was POSITIVE i was a boy (though she didn't know for sure) and painted my room blue, only picked out a boys name and was totally prepared for me to be a boy. well suprise suprise i was a girl, and they were both shocked but excited. However they didn't make any changes into what they had already planned (besides my name of course) my room was kept blue and in most of my baby pictures i was wrapped in a blue blanket my mom had made for me while she was pregnant. Thinking back on my childhood i have to agree with one of the other students who said today that she grew up with brothers and prefered playing with them and their toys. I was the same way, i think because they were my role models from a young age. I still liked playing with dolls and some girlie things but mostly i wanted to be like my brothers and most of my friends were boys up until middle school. I think its been an advantage for me not growing up as a "girlie girl" because even though now as an adult i like to dress up and look pretty i still can be a tom-boy and play sports and hang with the guys, which i think is beneficial.