trees and guys

[lauradi7dw]

There is (or was) a TV show called "Men in Trees." This is not about that. This is the latest episode in the long-running serial "reading but not writing." One of the things I've learned today is that in a couple of the gazillion studies of gender stereotyping by little kids, one of the things you can ask a child to assign gender to is a fir tree. Huh? I think I could assign
a stereotypical gender association to a fire fighter's hat, for example (another one in the study
I read) even though I know that there are some female fire fighters (which I might not know if
I were two years old), but the tree question would have left me stumped (joke, unintentional).
Apparently, fir trees go into the category of objects associated with men. Who knew? Do two year olds have a lot of exposure to lumberjacks?

I guess this guy was aware of the research (it's a news clip from last July)
>>Police are on the hunt for a man who robbed a New Hampshire bank on Saturday disguised as a tree, according to MyFoxBoston.com.

The suspect walked into the Citizen's Bank in Manchester with tree branches duct taped to his body and demanded money from the teller.<<