Playtime with two young boys and a young girl, all about four or five years old, and an adult supervisor. The basic game that develops is that the adult pretends to chase the children around, and the children laugh as they run away. They also enjoy running up to the adult, as if to challenge him to chase them.
But the game evolves into where the girl allows herself to get trapped in a corner, and when the adult gets close she cries to the boys for help. The boys immediately run to the rescue, and try to pull the adult away. The adult allows himself to be pulled away so that the girl can escape.
The cycle repeats, and the adult is left wondering how these children developed such clearly-defined gender roles at such a young age.
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