I don’t so much mind the boy playing with dolls, but I take great offense at Mattel’s foisting an effemitive juvenile male as the archetype of what a boy playing with dolls should look like,
Just another case of the Left trying to shove things down our throats that we don’t want there.
My daughter was occasionally able to talk her brothers into “playing Barbies” with her. ‘Course it always went in a direction she hadn’t planned, mainly involving the Barbie van being overturned with a lot of muscle cars and other macho vehicles on the scene. There was a lot of laughing and fun that didn’t have much to do with evening gowns and coiffures. Nobody, including my daughter, seemed to mind. Later they moved on to building elaborate Lego towns. If left to their own, kids will maintain their God-assigned gender roles, regardless of the toys...unless there is some negative adult influence.
My boys played with dolls, but they called them action figures. Of course, they didn’t dress them.