On the other hand, women, more so feminists hardly try to change the way their sons or husbands play their sex roles. Women have always struggled to change their looks and appearance in order to fit into society. The most attractive of women have suffered some kind of notion that they do not meet the ideal. What is considered to be beautiful is being thin, sexy and stylish. She displays the Barbie doll as being the ideal type of image. Pollitt gives the example of the Barbie doll.
Women have to meet the ideal image in order to be able to fit into the society. America has not yet reached a point where free sex roles can easily be exercised. Some women have benefited from these movements. This however is not to say that feminist movements have done nothing for women. Feminism has thus reached its limits because the difference between girls and boys is in their genetic make-up. She talks about how these differences can be attributed to hormonal influences, brain chemistry and genes. Pollitt talks about how since the founding of the National Organization for Women (WOW), girls are still expected to play with dolls and boys with trucks. The stereotypes in our society that dictate what men and women should do have been discussed in this essay. How we raise our kids is a good indicator of the unfinished female revolution.
We tend to use our children to prove that the differences between boys and girls are innate a natural occurrence that none of us can control or change. The female revolution is seemingly unfinished. The fact that boys prefer to play with trucks while girls play with dolls is just a social conditioning. She emphasizes that the male and female genes are physically different but have their roles already been structured for them by society? She claims that these roles have been put there by society.
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