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⌈ Secret Post #3057 ⌋

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[Polandball]

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[The X-Files]

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[Nick Lea/Krycek]

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[Plague Inc Evolved]

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(Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.)

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[Grimm]

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[Discworld]

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[Magi the labrynth of magic]

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[The Clangers]

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I grew up playing with the toys my older brother grew out of. Trucks, cars, action figures. A lot of my neighborhood friends growing up were boys so again, lots of masculine toys. A significant amount of my childhood photos from age 2-5 have me in ostensibly 'boys' clothes and with my hair cut very short.

During the very same childhood I also played with Barbies, liked dresses, and at alternative points to the overalls/short hair photos there are ones of me in pink with bows in my hair.

Fuck knows my parents did a lot of shit wrong, but that was most certainly never one of them. It never occured to me to think "this is for boys, this is for girls, therefore liking one or the other defines me!" To this day it doesn't. I know rationally that things are marketed that way but it doesn't change my instinctual response which is basically "Do I like this, is it fun, does it make me feel happy? In which case I don't care who it's 'supposed' to be for."

I still have both traditionally 'feminine' traits and like, and traditionally 'male' traits and likes. I identify as a cis female, regardless of any of it. Sometimes I wonder how it would have been growing up today where all these mixed messages would have confused the fuck out of me.

This! It's so reductive to say that toys are for girls or boys anyway, or something like short hair or long hair.

The point is that kids are kids and people are people.

I do wish they would MARKET stuff to be non gender-specific, because showing boys playing with action figures and girls with My Little Pony toys is setting up that dichotomy with the parents.

I was a kid in the 70s and an only child and I had all kinds of toys. I loved my Stretch Armstrong and Lego and stuff.

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Re: Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

Re: Everyone is entitled to their opinion.