social engineering getting more and more popular?

[Kazuaki Shimazaki II]

Originally Posted by MH

There is no limit on psychological level unless you assume that telling someone that she is a girl/woman somehow limits her.

Unfortunately, it might.

To use your deliberate argument from extreme in a constructive manner:

I don't expect my daughter to be just good mother and house wife and prepare soups for 10 kids from morning to night.

If such a stereotype still formally exists in a particular society, then no one will disagree that the girl label might be somewhat limiting. Even if there is no law against it, societal pressure and indoctrination in explicit and subtle form would have ensured the vast majority of woman do just that.

And while in the First World the zeitgeist has moved away from such old-fashioned values, the stereotypes are still there. Even if you miraculously (and I doubt it) manage to avoid using or implying any of those stereotypes, society will fill in.

It is impossible to eradicate such values from society as a whole, but the idea here is to reduce its effect by minimizing its imprint at the smallest ages (when the child is most vulnerable to them).