Posted on 03/03/2013 6:04:59 AM PST by Kaslin
So how exactly does one characterize GI Joe? Is he not a doll? I remember one Christmas when I was little back in the 60s when my sis and I each got a Chatty Cathy and my lil sis got a Chatty Baby. My brother, about 2 years old then, was incensed and so after Christmas my mom went out and got him a Chatty Brother and all was well.
My brother, by the way is a Catholic hetero with children and works his head off supporting them.
We eventually put him on a mound of dirt in the horse pasture, behind our house, and worked on our marksmanship with our BB guns.
I think we did alright. Knocked him down quite a bit.
This article is filled with false premises and garbage. My kids all attended a high end Montessori and you better believe those little boys LOVED playing with the kitchen stuff. They love it! And they love firetrucks, trains and all types of wheels, something girls don’t seem to be fascinated with in general.
I have always hated Sesame Street, right from it’s beginnings in the late 60s, early 70s. This is when I was a “liberal”, a leftist, and I still hated it. There is so much wrong with Sesame Street that it would take a long dissertation to cover it all.
Amen bro!!
I agree there is something fundamentally wrong with Sesame Street.
Agreed - Is the worry that boys need training on being nurturing? Get them a dog or any pet - they can get to practice all the nurturing and “taking care of” stuff a lot more effectively than playing with dolls.
Carry to term is one thing. Real commitment from a Progressive male would involve natural childbirth.
I did the same thing with my GI Joes, too! LOL
But, now, after looking at the going rates for those “collectibles,” I’m kicking myself in the pants!
Recently saw the GI Joe Flying Space Adventure Set my friends and I shot up and lit on fire is now going for almost $4,000!
Well... At least I still have my Daisy BB gun.
Cheers!
I depends on how one defines a “doll”.
Both of my sons are infatuated with Superman “action figures”....which are dolls of a sort. They gravitate towards them.
There are two girls in the neighborhood, who have baby type dolls. The boys play with the dolls when they play with the girls. The boys treat the baby dolls the same way that they treat Superman “action figures” and don’t really make the connection. The dolls are whatever they want them to be, not what we as adults see them to be.
Well that is right, we had these very cool Buzz Lightyear and Woody “action figure” dolls, and also Power Rangers and transformables, all of which are dolls of sorts. And my boys had a huge load of stuffed animals.
We also had rocket bottle wars and would throw lit firecrackers at each other. Ahhh, Mississippi in the 1960's and 1970's.
If a boy can transition betweeen an obvious boy figure and an obvious girl figure and treat them both the same, I’d entertain the thought that something is developementally wrong.
The main way to keep little children from becoming homosexuals is to make darn sure they don’t get molested as children. That is a very common denominator.
Oh I totally forgot the toy soldiers, we had a huge picnic basket full of them.
no, you are just not familiar with raising kids, OBVIOUSLY
Action figure
lol, yeah ok, Barbie is an action figure too.
Doll.
"Action figures?" Dolls and ruled so on a legal basis in the 1980s.
Dolls. Dolls. Dolls. Boys play with dolls.
I think certain "traditionalists" have built a false mythology around stereotypes that is harmful to the development of men.
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