Four-Year-Old Debbie Tells Her Father That She Wants to Fix

Four-year-old Debbie tells her father that she wants to fix cars and be a racecar driver when she grows up. Her father tells her that she cannot do that because a person has to be "strong and rough and has to understand how machines work, and women have trouble doing that." Debbie's father is

A) explaining how biological biasing affects one's choice of occupations.
B) encouraging gender role stereotypes.
C) explaining what men and women are allowed to do in the American culture.
D) defining society's sexual scripts.