Boys playing with dolls and girls playing with trucks.

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Most boys play with dolls all the time. They're called "auction figures" but they're dolls nonetheless.

^Yeah, they just called them 'action figures" so boys would actually play with them without feeling emasculated. But if it resembles a human or humanoid creature, then it's really a doll.

The first GI Joe dolls were not only called action figures for that reason but they tried to make the character as rugged and many as possible, even giving a scar on his face. I even once heard they put the thumbnail on one of his hands upside-down on purpose to avoid having cheap bootlegs being made. Although I think GI Joe was originally more of an adventurer than a soldier.

In fact maybe even stuffed animals are technically dolls, and it's okay for boys to play with stuffed animals.

There are new Baby Alive dolls that are boys now, and the talking BA dolls, male or female, can now call their "parent" daddy as well as mommy with a switch on their back.

I'll put it this way. If I had a son and he wanted to play with dolls, I think I'd ship him off to military school to get some sense knocked into him.

I played hot wheels with my brother and he played dolls with me.

I played with cars when I was little, even took my favourite toy car to bed with me I didn't like those baby dolls they're creepy looking.

I figure girls playing with toy cars was just a "tom-boy" thing no one cared about as long as she started acting more "lady like" by a certain age.

At the end of the day you're just upset over plastic.

Oh good, I'm not the only one.

I preferred stereotypically boy toys as a kid, cars and construction sets, etc, but I liked doll houses, I'd play barbies with female friends, and I was very resentful whenever I was told I couldn't play with something that was "for girls" even if I didn't want to in the first place, it would make the toy more enticing.

In kindergarten there was an entire alcove of the room dedicated to a toy kitchen that was really cool and I was not allowed in there, I had to play with the lego knock-offs, that pissed me off. I also remember getting mad at a barbie commercial that said no boys allowed, lol.

Me three.
A Tonka VW.
I loved toy cars and trucks.

I had a Hot Wheels branded 1:43 scale Ferrari F40. I was always more of a Porsche 959 or Camaro guy, but I sure loved that Ferrari. I haven't been able to find one online either, sadly. (I can find other Hot Wheels 1:43 scale F-40s, but not the livery mine had).

i wasn't into other girl stuff thou except for swinging with the girls in PE. The girls were sometimes allowed to swing while the boys were expected to participate in some sport thing but the coach sometimes allowed me to swing with the girls i think due to my physical & mental disabilities. I was teased a bit for likeing the show My Little Pony even thou i never watched it & i didn't watch any other sterotpicial girl shows either. Some people assumed i did because i did n'ot conform to the boy stereotype either thou. This contributed to the gender confusion i've had about myself in my teens till mid 20s.

My mom is a retired preK teacher & she never cared about which types of toys the kids would chose to play with when they were allowed to play. Some of the boys would chose to play house & play with baby dolls & some girls would chose to play with action figures & toy cars & construction vehicles.

good teacher your mom was.


nobody should care ! !!
why is everyone focused on labeling kids and strangers alike these days

and every aspect of their lives is mutilated and dissected like what the hell
is there no such thing as mystery, privacy, decency, letting things be, being easygoing, kindness, letting people explore the world through art and play...etc
why is everything extreme


it is the childs business.. what they like or dont like..

if its something wrong it can be corrected or re-directed like if the child is extremely violent and hateful to a destructive degree that is not appropriate play -
it needs to be re-directed in a gentle way, or probed deeper into (SUBTLY) by the adult, if necessary

keep their worlds gentle, pure, loving, fun, and safe! please!! ! that is our job.

people imposing everything they want on a child
because of their own sick minds wanting things to be a certain way only-

no concept of nature- like a plant-
which needs to be ignored too, aside from being watered and whatnot --

not constantly poked at, twisted and fiddled with until the plant cannot grow and just withers. we do that to OURSELVES and now we do it to CHILDREN TOO.

i played with my sister's hand-me-down dolls. also played with trucks, i'd put the dolls in the trucks and go to make believe town with them.

nowadays, that would place the child squarely in a political camp or maybe a future in Hell, too, from the get-go, in the eyes of some people.

to me, the fundies don't count for much in my life, their dissocial ways are between them and god AFAIC.