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Why Aren't There More Dolls for Boys? [Video]
The Atlantic ^ | September 8, 2016 | Sam Price-Waldman

Posted on 09/12/2016 7:51:40 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: RatRipper

Wait a minute- does that include GI Joe?


61 posted on 09/12/2016 9:04:39 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: C19fan

sling shots, bb rifles, fishing poles,bicycles, skateboards, video games, sports of all kinds and dirt everywhere,
Dolls?


62 posted on 09/12/2016 9:10:32 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Go Trump, Give em hell BABY.)
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To: C19fan

There were NO dolls ever for boys until the toy industry decided to make dolls for boys. So was invented the GI JOE doll back in the 1960s.

Before that time boys played with toy guns and such male items.


63 posted on 09/12/2016 9:18:10 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Little Pig

That is a great observation you made.

I have a 5 year old daughter, and will monitor for that behavior.

I have Legos. I love them. I try to get my daughter interested. Turns out the Legos merely provide the back drop to the drama she creates.

It’s all interpersonal stuff with her.


64 posted on 09/12/2016 9:18:55 AM PDT by T-Bone Texan (Don't be a lone wolf. Form up small leaderlesss cells ASAP !)
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To: C19fan

65 posted on 09/12/2016 9:23:43 AM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Donglalinger

Is that a Hillary “love doll”? That’s a joke right?


66 posted on 09/12/2016 9:23:43 AM PDT by Bubba Gump Shrimp (A Liberal is someone who cannot accept that there is a Law of Unintended Consequences)
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To: C19fan

It’s called GI Joe.


67 posted on 09/12/2016 9:24:18 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Olog-hai

Before Seinfeld. Michael Richard’s greatest character.

Battle Boy (From Fridays)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3emNv8MzSss


68 posted on 09/12/2016 9:27:55 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: C19fan

‘Cause real boys don’t do dolls; they do action figures!


69 posted on 09/12/2016 9:40:14 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: Little Pig

When I was a young mother with 2 little boys close in age and #3 of 4 on the way, I decided one Christmas that I just had to have under the tree on Christmas morning a beautiful baby doll that I spotted in the store. I reasoned that perhaps the boys would want to interact with it. After all, they had teddy bears that they slept with, and they would probably be fathers one day....

I learned my lesson pretty quickly, as it was not long before a now nude baby doll became a missile of some sort. Certainly hope that poor doll found a good home with whoever subsequently bought her from the Good Will Store.

Now, that I am a grandmother to 4 boys, I understand little boys so much better. My 4 boys taught me a lot over the years.


70 posted on 09/12/2016 9:44:11 AM PDT by Bigg Red (Go away, Satan! -- Fr.Jacques Hamel (R.I.P., martyr))
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To: Vermont Lt

Boys would have a great use for them: pellet gun targets.


71 posted on 09/12/2016 9:45:21 AM PDT by libstripper (o)
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To: getitright
Well, my 3 year old does. Was playing with some polly pockets when we were at a friend's house. Not a big deal. He also plays lego and play fights with his brother. All of us just need to let our children role play, and choose whatever toys they wish. Forcing masochism or feminism will just back fire IMVHO.

I think the real demons out there are even worrying and talking about sex and people trying to sexualize the activities of our children. And of course I think home life and role models are a big deal. I expect something wrong happened in a boys home life for him to question sexual identity.

72 posted on 09/12/2016 9:53:29 AM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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To: getitright

“Because boys don’t play with dolls”. At least not till they’re older.
They will then play with dolls and dames and broads.


73 posted on 09/12/2016 9:54:43 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: C19fan

There are dolls for boys that they can kiss and cuddle.

They’re called “girls”.


74 posted on 09/12/2016 10:00:11 AM PDT by MeganC (JE SUIS CHARLES MARTEL!!!)
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To: C19fan

Because it’s upsetting when boys use a hard plastic baby figure for a weapon while playing.

Give up, sex-shifters. It’s hard-wired.


75 posted on 09/12/2016 10:03:00 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will be one People, under one God, saluting one American flag. (standing ovation) --Donald Trump)
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To: C19fan

I thought it was common knowledge that “dolls” for boys are called action figures...


76 posted on 09/12/2016 10:14:10 AM PDT by Popman (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproch to any people...)
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To: C19fan

I believe they call them “Action Figures.” At least hat what males I know cal them when I tell them I like their dolls. :-)


77 posted on 09/12/2016 10:36:00 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Waiting for inspirations)
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To: atc23

not for him


78 posted on 09/12/2016 11:04:10 AM PDT by RatRipper (The biggest threat to US national security is our government and those in it.)
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To: Ciexyz

Guess I missed the memo,,,,


79 posted on 09/12/2016 11:12:09 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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80 posted on 09/12/2016 11:13:24 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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