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In reply to the discussion: You Can Give a Boy a Doll, but You Can't Make Him Play With It [View all]Mass
(27,315 posts)6. "boys and girls, on average, do not have identical interests, propensities, or needs"
Neither do two boys or two girls.
This is a totally offensive crap that you posted. All it show sis that, in the US where gender models are still prevalent (and were still 20 years ago), kids tend to follow societial stereotypes. (this is probably true in other places, but this is the example I see in the article).
For the record, my two sons played with dolls and loved that (even though we never bought them dolls), and my niece played with guns with them and loved that too. I hated dolls and loved legos (at a time when legos were seen as a toy for boys).
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"boys and girls, on average, do not have identical interests, propensities, or needs"
Mass
Dec 2012
#6
I once hanged all of my doll house figures. I used yarn. I can't remember why I wanted to
CTyankee
Dec 2012
#22
I agree. Even as a theoretical deterrent, it's like the proverbial sledgehammer.
nomorenomore08
Dec 2012
#42
Well why don't you post the list of sources that meets your approval so we can start following it.
undeterred
Dec 2012
#39
Christina Hoff Sommers, in group tied to ALEC, the American Enterprise Institute
Starry Messenger
Dec 2012
#34
As usual, I think the real problem is trying to force people into these little boxes.
nomorenomore08
Dec 2012
#41