a doll is barbie and though GI Joe can be called a doll it certainly is not a girlie thing.
Letting boys play with their girlie crap is the same as raising a future homosexual and then some wonder why some boys today are little sissies who have never had a fight in their lives.
BTW, Yes I have boys and girls, my boys would never go near some girlie toys like easy bake ovens and then play with the girls.
that is stupid
“a doll is barbie and though GI Joe can be called a doll it certainly is not a girlie thing.”
manc kinda has a point here. Say 1000 years from now archaeologists dig up a Barbie or a GI Joe what would they call it? They would more than likely call it a “doll” from an extinct era just like Native American Indian dolls that are often found. Think about it.
I get what your saying, but it can go overboard; consider one "women's chore": cooking.
Now I can cook decently well, despite being single male not yet over thirty... that doesn't make me homosexual/sissy.
Sewing would be another activity which could be considered 'feminine'... and yet if you stop to think about it, it's glaringly obvious that men have done it long enough that it became a name: Taylor (which is masculine if a given-name).
You could even look at teaching as a profession, it's fairly dominated by women (at 80% in public schools), yet this was not always so.
I think the 'sissy-ification' is a result that we-as-a-society do not value the "traditionally masculine" traits: logical thinking, feats of strength, tenacity, standing-against-the-crowd, and in some ways virtue. (Virtue comes from the Latin word vir, which means man.)