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You Can Give a Boy a Doll, but You Can't Make Him Play With It
The Atlantic ^ | DEC 6 2012

Posted on 12/08/2012 10:28:32 AM PST by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 12/08/2012 10:28:38 AM PST by nickcarraway
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What I find hard to believe is that there are any guns in a Swedish toy catalog.


2 posted on 12/08/2012 10:30:20 AM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: nickcarraway

At what point do people get tired of this bs and say enough is enough!


3 posted on 12/08/2012 10:32:15 AM PST by Perdogg (Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA4) for President 2016)
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To: nickcarraway

Glad my paternal Grandfather left Sweden in 1882 for the US and Texas in particular! The Swedes are committing cultural suicide with their silly political correctness and socialism.

(Of course things aren’t going too well here for much the same reasons)


4 posted on 12/08/2012 10:33:16 AM PST by texson66 (In the words of Kent Brockman, "As for myself, I welcome our new commie overlords...")
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To: nickcarraway
Even frustrated 60's liberal weenies have had to acknowledge that boys and girls are different. Give a doll to a boy, he is likely to use it as a bat or point it at you and say "Bang Bang."
5 posted on 12/08/2012 10:33:16 AM PST by hinckley buzzard
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As the Bible says, “thinking themselves to be wise, they become as fools”...

If give a boy a stick it becomes a gun or a sword in his hand, never a doll. Obviously these “highly ed-u-macated” fools have never actually watched children. I suspect its an off shoot of the abortion industry, none of these folks every had kids.


6 posted on 12/08/2012 10:33:36 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

After he pulls the head off of it.


7 posted on 12/08/2012 10:40:19 AM PST by Arm_Bears (The MSM lies about conservatives; and it lies about liberals.)
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Liberalism consists of acting against human nature.


8 posted on 12/08/2012 10:48:01 AM PST by I want the USA back
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The catalog shows little boys playing with a Barbie Dream House and girls with guns and gory action figures.

Switching them doesn't eliminate the "discrimination", it just shows the stupid idiocy that passes for "intelligent thought" by the political masters (liberals). Real non-discrimination would be to show both boys and girls together playing with both items.

They don't get enough sun over there in Sweden, do they?

9 posted on 12/08/2012 10:49:34 AM PST by jeffc (The U.S. media are our enemy)
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To: hinckley buzzard
Precisely what happens. I gave my sons Barbies because their preschool classmates had them and they thought they were kind of cool. They dressed them up for a while.

Then cut off their hair and positioned their bodies into gun shapes and used them as weapons. Hilarious.

10 posted on 12/08/2012 10:57:23 AM PST by Lizavetta (You get what you tolerate)
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I heard a story on the Dennis Prager show(if memory serves me correctly) from a former feminist turned conservative who says as a mom she gave her sons Barbie dolls to play with. They played with them alright. They ripped off Barbie’s legs and used them as weapons to attack each other.


11 posted on 12/08/2012 11:14:49 AM PST by ReformationFan
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To: I want the USA back

“...Liberalism consists of acting against human nature....”
Acts against nature are only one of the many symptoms.
Liberalism is a chronic, debilitating mental disease that rots out the brain’s ability to think logically or objectively. As the disease takes it’s course, you will see self-loathing and violent hatred of others. We’ve all seen it in the headlines.
Until society comes to grips with it being a disease, society will continue to suffer. Once liberalism is recognized for what it really is, then the solution becomes blatantly obvious. Only problem is that there are not enough padded cells for all of em.


12 posted on 12/08/2012 11:16:04 AM PST by lgjhn23 (When the tainted finger of government touches anything, the ROT begins.)
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I saw a show about 10 years ago. Maybe longer. The commie libs were trying to answer the question, “Are boys really different than girls?” They had this old hippie “mother” who had two little boys that she was trying to raise as two nice little pacifists. One of the experiments they did involved putting the two boys in a room with nothing to play with except for a couple of Barbie dolls. They ended up having a sword fight with the two dolls. LOL!


13 posted on 12/08/2012 11:16:20 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Don't tax me bro! Tax that guy over there!)
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To: Lizavetta

Were you ever a guest or caller on the Dennis Prager radio show? The reason I ask is heard a story very similar to yours on there.


14 posted on 12/08/2012 11:18:03 AM PST by ReformationFan
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To: nickcarraway
Here's a better image for us, forget the dolls!



15 posted on 12/08/2012 11:18:03 AM PST by cyn (Benghazi.)
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To: nickcarraway

This subject is so funny to me!

My poor mother despaired of my preferences for baseball and toy guns. She kept buying dolls for me but I kept stripping them naked and dragging them through mud.

It wasn’t until my mother lay dying she confessed to being afraid I was a lesbian when a child. Of course her fears were unfounded. Sometimes a little girl is a tomboy without any sexual context involved.


16 posted on 12/08/2012 11:22:05 AM PST by SatinDoll (NATURAL BORN CITZEN: BORN IN THE USA OF CITIZEN PARENTS.)
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I think it should be pointed out that when parents are attracted to “cross-genderism” in their children, it is not the training or the children who are in error, but their parents.

Even at the turn of the 20th Century, there were parents who dressed their boys up in dresses, intentionally trying to feminize them. Despite what this said as, even then this wasn’t “social convention”, but parents acting weird.

“Little Franklin Delano Roosevelt sits primly on a stool, his white skirt spread smoothly over his lap, his hands clasping a hat trimmed with a marabou feather. Shoulder-length hair and patent leather party shoes complete the ensemble. We find the look unsettling today, yet social convention of 1884, when FDR was photographed at age 2 1/2, dictated that boys wore dresses until age 6 or 7, also the time of their first haircut.”

Efforts at “cross-genderism” also found a home in the Progressivism movement, alongside all sorts of other dubious efforts at social engineering. They rejected the idea that people had natural programming or ‘design specifications’, and embraced the idea that things like eugenics and conditioning could create “the perfect man”.

They did an impressive amount of evil and harm in the pursuit of their fantasies, and still do.


17 posted on 12/08/2012 11:33:52 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Pennies and Nickels will NO LONGER be Minted as of 1/1/13 - Tim Geithner, US Treasury Sect)
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To: Arm_Bears

Beat me to it. Plus the shoot them, blow them up, run them over and many other things real boys do with dolls.


18 posted on 12/08/2012 11:34:36 AM PST by riverrunner
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To: nickcarraway

Boys play with “action figures” all the time! Technically, action figures are dolls.


19 posted on 12/08/2012 12:00:20 PM PST by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK!)
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To: AlaskaErik

Read a few years back about an experiment done with toys/boys/girl/. The boys with the barbies took the head off and used them as guns....laughed my butt off at the idiots that think boy and girls are the same...male and female are different in all species...


20 posted on 12/08/2012 12:40:17 PM PST by goat granny
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