Posted on 09/12/2016 7:51:40 AM PDT by C19fan
Kristen Jarvis was a high-powered lawyer with a six-figure salary in Doha, Qatar. She loved working at a law firm—until she had children. After months of experiencing sexism in the workplace, Jarvis decided to make a radical change. She moved back to the United States and, with the help of her sister, began a Kickstarter campaign to fund a company that makes dolls for boys.
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I have a better question, why haven’t the perverts at The Atlantic been shipped over to North Korea yet?
Boys have favorite stuffed animals. They also have real animals to play with and cuddle with. They also have younger siblings that they care for. Throw in a couple favorite action figures and you have plenty for boys to work with.
If you have kids, you should encourage them to beat the snot out of any boy who comes around playing with dolls. “Action figures” are barely tolerable, but a straight-up doll is not. Even if no physical violence is involved, they should at least make fun of the loser until he runs in front of a car.
When I was a kid I had hundreds of dolls that I’d dress and play with my buddies for hours in the backyard and garage.
Big ones like GI Joe
Little ones like my collection of little plastic Army men
We also created safe homes for our dolls out of all sorts of stuff; we called these homes forts, bunkers, and trenches
Kate Upton comes to mind!
Hey..
I played for hours with Lincoln logs and blocks...with my little brother..
building things
..and I’m a girl!
They're slick, oh, about the size of a lunchbox or so. They open up and fold out into all different 3-D landscapes. 4-5 bucks at consignment sales. Wish that I'd have had something like that when I was a kid, we just used blocks ("Ok, that red block is your fort. My fort is the cool army-green one....")
WBill Jr and I used them to play "army", with rules that only he understood.
I'll ask him about dolls tonite. See if he can overcome his laughter to give me a reasoned response.
My brothers and I would stage GI Joe drama by throwing them into trees and trying to knock them out with rocks. Would also set them up on the ground and blow them up w/firecrackers. Many a GI Joe had to undergo reconstructive surgery w/rubber bands.
When that jeep came out for them, it opened up a whole realm of car accidents...
Note, in spite of all of this childhood violence, I have yet to kill anybody.
When my sons were in preschool their girl friends would come over with their Barbie cases and Barbie dolls and tons of Barbie clothes and the kids would all sit around dressing and undressing and having them talk to each other - lots of imagination. So I got them their own Barbie dolls and some clothes which they liked for a while .... until the day I walked into the kitchen and one son was cutting off Barbie's hair and then bended her into the shape of a gun. And Barbie became a weapon. That was the end of the Barbie phase.
Action figures for boys have to be three inches or under or else it’s girlie.
Well, I will join WBillJr in lots of amounts of laughter.
Lol! You win post of the day.
As a kid, I used to love to visit the Sears Toy Department. There were 8 or 10 display boards mounted high on the wall with various sets of plastic armies setup to show battles. Coolest thing ever.
(Wish I had a dollar for every one if those little guys I lost or the dog chewed up.)
Because boys turn dolls into guns.
I’ve seen it.
Oh, I know. Just like the dolls are “action figures”. It’s just semantics. Stripping away the marketing labels just helps put the lie to the feminist lawyer’s claims in the OP.
I also like the way those two images also support the notion that for boys, it’s all about the story, while for girls it’s the verisimilitude and ability to directly relate to the toys that counts. The girl’s dollhouse is scale-correct, and has all the elements of an actual house (furniture, working lamps, even things like silverware and decorative furniture), while the boy’s “playset” has only the minimum necessary to convey the setting, and only in the most basic way (molded control consoles with stickers, sketched-in backgrounds and design elements).
It is acceptable for girls to play with action figures. It is not acceptable for boys to play with girlie dolls.
I still remember the “My Buddy” song.
“My buddy and me, like to climb up a tree...”
Soundgarden, Black Hole Sun
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