What’s Wrong With Letting Boys Play With Girl Toys?
For some reason the boys' toys are not gender specific. But people are classified toys for girls in general. Why is this so? I have a nephew who loves My Little Pony toys and his parents are fine with the other people think it is wrong.
Nothings wrong with that, the problem lies within society as a whole every single gender role we have are socially constructed and assigned to us, it’s so messed up. Those roles manifest insecurities and unwarranted judgments.
There is a boys toys section & a girls toys section in department stores. I’ve never seen a little girl actually prefer hotwheels cars over Bratz, nor have i ever seen a little girl truly interested in toy trains, but if you put down those little plastic high heel shoes little girls love them.
They both have gender specific toys as boys and girls do have differences and are attracted to specific things.
I have no problem with either gender playing with any toy.
I don’t let my sons play with girls toys because I want them to grow up to be men not girls or effiminates.
It is as simple as that. People can say it is fine for boys to play with girl toys and get in touch with their feminine side but that simply is not holding true is society. Young people have no clue what to do any more. Better was the time when men were men and women were women trying to blend the two simply does not work.
You don’t have to like that fact but just look around blurring the gender lines isn’t doing any one any good.
The problem is when feminists try to force boy’s to play with girls toy’s.
If a boy wants to play with a toy designed for a girl it is his own business.
But feminist’s have tried in the past( and some still advocate it to this day) to raise boy’s as “defective girls” and that has produced horrible effects and is one of the reason’s why feminist’s are regarded so lowly.
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Look at some of the answers as evidence of this highly sexist and anti male thought pattern among feminist’s and misandrics.
Nothing, but the machismo culture is brainwashed to believe that allowing boys to do “girly” things will somehow magically make them gay. For some reason, they don’t believe the same for girls. Girls are labeled “tom boys” and boys are labeled “sissies”. It’s all just paranoid, immature thinking, and it’s sad.
Actually, Ricky, both my daughters preferred Hot Wheels cars over Bratz. My older daughter actually hated Bratz dolls and said they scared her with their huge heads and exaggerated facial features. The problem I see with a lot of “girl’s toys” is that they don’t encourage any real learning or creative play. All the toys do is make sounds, light up, and look pretty. I don’t remember toys being like this when I was a child. There were a lot of toys aimed at girls where they could actually learn something instead of pick up the toy, look at it, lose interest, and then put it back down again.
The other boys will beat them up. (And She-Ra would have fit right in with my He-Man toy…Which my sisters repeatedly stole.)
Boys are raised to believe that behaving like a girl is a bad thing. That’s why anything “like a little girl” is insulting.
Sorry, I know that’s f%ck^d up, but it’s the honest answer to your question.
Personally, I think interaction with girls, and their toys, (in a positive environment) is vital to a boy’s healthy development. Without this… Well pick any j^rk on GWS and ask him if he is comfortable playing with “little girls toys”, or with women—That is:if he is comfortable with women. The insult free version of his response will be “no”.
I have two boys and two girls. When my boys were little, I was a member of a very strict religion and we did not allow our sons to play with toy guns, etc etc. I encouraged my boys to play with dolls – it didn’t work. They made play-play guns out of lego, sticks, anything. The dolls were ignored.
In fact, one of my sons joined the army.
So much for encouraging boy’s nurturing instincts. If the little boy plays with My Little Pony his parents should be grateful. Chances are he hopefully won’t join the army!
Since when has toys for boys been non-gender specific? What about G.I.Joes and Transformers?
I think boys should be able to play with girls toys. Let the boys be who they are. I’m a guy and I played with my female cousins barbies a few times when I was 10. I was interested in what the barbies naked bodies looked like underneath those skirts. You never know why a child likes a toy. Too many people assume of a boy is playing with barbies, he must be gay.
I can’t imagine any caring parent would themselves frown upon their son playing with girls’ toys, BUT some parents – knowing that there are small-minded people out there who still pander to old gender stereotypes – might feel it necessary to protect their son from the scorn and mockery of others by only letting him play with Action Man…etc.
When children are little, they just play with whats interesting to them at the moment. They’re not thinking about whether or not its a boys or girls toy. I had barbie dolls, an e-z bake oven, cars and trucks, stuffed animals and a train set.
haha Ohhhh I thought you were meaning like… “bedroom” toys haha. Um.. well it’s just social conditioning. They’re not “meant to” play with girls toys because they’ll “turn out gay” or “turn into a sissy” or some other crap.
Nothing wrong with it at all. However, they tend to grow out of wanting to play with them as they grow older. No.3 son still enjoys taking the clothes off my Barbies though.
It’s fine but don’t be surprised if the boys uses the Barbie doll as a hammer and the head falls off.
I think it’s a good experience to let boys play with a big range of different toys.
M parents let me play with girl toys but some other people found it offensive
they like to take the clothes off the barbies
If you wanna raise Fags.
sounds gay