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Would You Encourage Your Lad To Play With Barbie?
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Evolution hasn't given the male much of a nurturing role. They're destined to be tough protector types, or to fail to be tough protector types and have to bluff it. I'm fairly sure playing with dolls won't change that. Having a dependent sibling might. Otherwise having a partner and children of your own might, but they'd need to be much older for that.
"Evolution hasn't given the male much of a nurturing role. They're destined to be tough protector types, or to fail to be tough protector types and have to bluff it".
AFAIC that mentality goes hand in hand with expressions like "be a man" or "man up" or "grow some balls".
Sorry but I think that thinking went out with the dodo, we're further up the evolutionary scale these days.
AFAIC that mentality goes hand in hand with expressions like "be a man" or "man up" or "grow some balls".
Sorry but I think that thinking went out with the dodo, we're further up the evolutionary scale these days.
...and I believe that modern western men *are* more nurturing these days.
Just to add to what I said earlier, I'm definitely not into pressuring this gender swapping if it doesn't come naturally. At the very least I would make damn sure that a boy (for example) is not discouraged or ridiculed if he wants to play with (for example) dolls.
Just to add to what I said earlier, I'm definitely not into pressuring this gender swapping if it doesn't come naturally. At the very least I would make damn sure that a boy (for example) is not discouraged or ridiculed if he wants to play with (for example) dolls.
You don't have to encourage them, boys do it naturally.
The biggest kids thing at the moment is 'Frozen' a Disney film about 2 Princesses. The thing is, it is such a good film that little boys want to act the parts out. Go to any wedding reception or kids event and the songs come on, and the boys are prancing around being little princesses (as are the girls).
And that is not by accident. Disney are ahead of the curve and designed the film that way. It was no accident that it also appeals to boys as well as girls. Which it why it has generated massive profits for Disney.
Which is a roundabout way of saying pushing little boys and girls down different avenues is what is un-natural, not letting them just follow whatever grabs their imagination.
The biggest kids thing at the moment is 'Frozen' a Disney film about 2 Princesses. The thing is, it is such a good film that little boys want to act the parts out. Go to any wedding reception or kids event and the songs come on, and the boys are prancing around being little princesses (as are the girls).
And that is not by accident. Disney are ahead of the curve and designed the film that way. It was no accident that it also appeals to boys as well as girls. Which it why it has generated massive profits for Disney.
Which is a roundabout way of saying pushing little boys and girls down different avenues is what is un-natural, not letting them just follow whatever grabs their imagination.
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