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This weekend, I am attending the Sexuality Education Advocacy Training in Washington, DC, hosted by the Unitarian Universalist Association, along with other faith communities and Advocates for Youth. I’m joined by two other advocates from North Carolina. I’ll be blogging more as the conference goes on about the work that we are doing, but I wanted to reflect on a moment that happened yesterday during lunch. Delsie and I had McDonalds for lunch, and I decided to order a happy meal. Since I am 20 years old, I decided to lie and pretend like I was ordering the meal for a child in the car. After I placed the order, I was asked if the Happy Meal was for a girl or a boy. McDonalds is offering two toy options right now, Barbies or Lego cars. I was taken aback at first. I replied boy, not really thinking about it, and got my food a couple minutes later.
We discussed later that it was unfortunate that McDonalds works under the assumption that all boys who order Happy Meals will want the “boy toy” and all girls will want the “girl toy”. Our sex does not determine how we choose to act out our gender. If a girl likes Star Wars, she should not be made to feel that she is selecting a toy that is not intended for her sex.
I’ll continue to be blogging and tweeting about the conference as it goes on. You can follow all three NC advocates at our Teen Health Now Twitter page during the next three days: http://twitter.com/TeenHealthNow
