Girl Toy, Boy Toy, How About Just a Toy
November 19th, 2009
It is frustrating to have a daughter and everyone being so locked in to the whole pink vs. blue societal construct idea. Why can’t my daughter play with foam swords, race cars, or airplanes. I don’t see anything wrong with the fact that she was a football player for Halloween.
When did we as a society stop evolving? The 1900s were about change and progress. Voting rights, racial equality, and such all issues combated and improved upon in the 1900s. Here we are in the new millennium and my daughter cannot play with a blue helicopter without receiving a look or snicker. Go to a fast food joint and order a child’s meal and ask for the boy toy for your daughter and when you get to the window they will look at you weird.
I am so happy that I have a wife that shares my view and doesn’t put our daughter in a box. She is probably even worse than me as she was a bit of the tomboy growing up. Would I feel the same if I had a boy? I feel confident that I would be open-minded, however, I must admit that I wouldn’t be as progressive. If my son wanted to be Dora, for instance, i would be fine with it, but if he wanted to be Snow White, I wouldn’t be able to cope.
Hopefully, we all can continue forward and not backwards.
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