If This Halloween Commercial Doesn't Clinch Your View on Gender Norms, Nothing Will

Jodi LeBlanc
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February 29, 2020

We've all read enough moving essays and Facebook posts about boys who wear dresses or pretend to be Elsa from Frozen to know that it's OK for kids to break away from gender norms. But that certainly doesn't mean, for parents, at least, that it's easy.

In a heartwarming commercial that debuted in 2017, released just ahead of Halloween, a couple grapples with just that.

In the short PSA, a happy family is carving pumpkins when Mom pulls out the costumes the kids requested. The son and daughter run upstairs gleefully as Dad looks on hesitantly. While trick-or-treating, the parents watch from a distance as their little Wonder Woman and Batman knock on doors. It's only at the end of the video, when the kids are being put to bed, that we realize who is wearing which costume.

https://www.popsugar.com/family/Halloween-Commercial-About-Gender-Nonconformity-44185728

 

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