I remember an 'incident' with my now ex-husband, when my oldest son was playing 'tea party' with his sister and feeding her dolls with a bottle. The (stupid man ex) barged in and had a fit, trying to tell me that 'boys need trucks and GI Joes' (which BTW looked like dolls to me) because boys need to grow up to be men. Gawd........Not like my ex I hope, no one likes those men.
Another 'incident' involved playing with and baking in, an Easy Bake Oven. Again, geesh, boys aren't supposed to use those. Well they can use them, the same as an adult male who is not threatened by 'women's chores, can use a real oven. Try it guys! The stove has no built in gizmo, like a James Bond movie, where if the man touches the stove, he is zapped, and electrocuted. No, seriously, he's not. Dishwater is not kryptonite to a man's species either.
Where's the little boy in this picture?
As a child I loved climbing trees, I rode a boy's blue bike (the only one my parents could find at a household auction) I played in the dirt for hours with trucks. I had toy cap guns, I played cowboys and rode a wooden, stick horse with a black cloth head and a yellow mane. I didn't grow up to be a serial killer, an axe- murderer, bank robber nor hate peace. In fact, I am and have always been a peace loving person.
Doesn't this picture look all too familiar?
If boys can't play tea party, cook in Easy Bake Ovens or feed dolls with a bottle, how in hell are they supposed to grow up to be decent men, dads or partners in any relationships or have respect for all of humanity?
A few years ago, a dish washing detergent ran commercials showing a man doing dishes and men in America threw a hissy fit. I guess the 'dish washing elf' does a single man's dishes? Where in hell is that elf when I need it? Another ad, ran by a car company, showed women on a balcony watching a guy getting out of a sports car. The conversation was: "Nice car, I wonder what he's compensating for?" Sexist? Yes, but why it is acceptable to run sexist ads when women are the brunt of the joke? Men don't get pissed then.
I sincerely hope parents are much more enlightened. But then, I look at violent video games and wonder.
