Would you let your son play with dolls?
| Yes | 133 | |
| No | 46 |
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anti-hero
Yes I would. I played with dolls as a little boy and I turned out totally gay. .... I mean FINE, totally fne.
But really, I wouldn't have a problem with it.
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flowergirl87
Yes and I think it's incredibly close minded if, in 2013, a parent couldn't bear to allow this. The equivalent is like not allowing a girl to play with cars. I loved toy cars as a kid and so did my female cousin. Sorry but any parent who thinks boys shouldn't play with dolls needs to get a grip and re-asses their priorities. Whilst I appreciate girls and boys will be more (or less) drawn to certain things, I can't stand 'over-stereotyping' of kids - society says you like this so you will like this and there will be no flexibility... how robotic.
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squeallikeasacofpigs
What a fucking world we live in here:
The majority of people would let a boy play with babrie dolls.
Whilst those parents that wouldn't let them are branded as backwards, sexist and narrow minded.
What is REALLY narrow minded is saying that it's pathetic and narrow minded to want to raise you child in a "stereotypical gender role", or quite simply differently to the way some YOU want to.
I honestly think everybody here who is saying that they would let their child play with a barbie doll seriously thinks about how their child is going to be treated by other children. I guarantee they would get bullied.
Society says you will like this? No. Your natural instinct as a male says you will like these things. You think that cavemen boys were off learning how to hunt with their father because 'society said so'? No. It's because these characteristics are hard-wired into our very being. It is some of the most basic things that define us as men and women.
And then to say that it's narrow minded that you want to raise your child as an image of yourself, to become a man's man, and by doing so discourage him from playing with girls toys? Ridiculous.
YOU are narrow minded, YOU cannot see the other point of view.
But I guess that's what you get these days. I sometimes feel like there are no true men left in this world and it's just full of androgynous clones. Oooh lets all be the same, nobody do anything stereotypical, this is 2013 don't forget. How robotic.
Bring back Sinatra, Brando, McQueen, the real men of this age. The real men.
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dom180
Yeah, God forbid kids be allowed to do what they want so long as it isn't hurting anyone. Your personal preference for traditional gender roles should obviously be forced onto every kid in the world, right? They don't really matter anyway, so long as your precious worldview isn't challenged.
EDIT: Your own logic suggests all men should do manly things, and by extension all pretty similar things... then you say the idea that everyone should do whatever they want is "robotic", even though that would obviously increase the diversity of behaviour. *sigh*
EDIT: "It's because these characteristics are hard-wired into our very being. It is some of the most basic things that define us as men and women". Well they're obviously not hard-wired, seeing as so many people don't conform to it, and they obviously don't define us as men and women seeing as there are so many men and women who don't conform to your ideals, and doing so doesn't mean they should change their gender just to fit your norms.
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Isabella80s
Firstly, whoever said Barbie dolls? Anyway, that doesn't matter. You've just taken what flowergirl said and completely twisted it. And what other point of view is there to see... other than one that restricts a child based on stereotypical gender roles and preferences? I know a woman who lets her son paint his fingernails at home because he sees mummy doing it. But he still plays with cars and 'boys toys'. Are you the kind of person who thinks men must have short hair and women must have long hair? Sorry, but you do come across as a bit narrow minded. Also, you can't compare caveman times to now! We sort of changed... ALOT.
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flowergirl87
Right... and whose comment has the more thumbs up? Just saying. From what I've read further down I know there's literally no point in getting into any kind of discussion with you. You will just call me names as that's what you do when people don't bow down to you. So we'll agree to disagree. Bye.
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dazjman
I'm planning to let my children play with whatever toys they want, provided those toys are child friendly.
Having the money for their toys is a different matter lol.Comment Hidden ( show ) -
Kiddles9
There all toys, let kids be kids. Media has made it seem like boys should play with cars and girls should play with barbies. I do find that it's more okay for a girl to be a tomboy and play with cars, to get dirty, and play sports. Then it is for a boy to like to play with barbies, dolls and look nice. They think that the boy is gay where as the girl is just a tomboy.
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disthing
Yeah, fuck it who cares?
When he gets to an age where playing with dolls is embarrassing he'll probably buckle to peer pressure and change to robotic action machine bastards that dispense death anyway. Let nature takes its course :P
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howaminotmyself
Action figures are pretty much dolls. But yes, if my son wants to play with a person like toy, I will let him.
He can play dress up too if he wants.
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Isabella80s
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Terence_the_viking
No he needs to learn how to play street fighter.
Get back on that console and do 10,000 hadoukens.
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squeallikeasacofpigs
I would discourage him from playing with dolls, and encourage him to play with typical 'boy' toys. I also don't like how people here seem to be bashing those that say that they wouldn't allow their son to play with dolls. Like chill the fuck out, parents can raise their kids however they want. Just because you would let your son playing with fucking Barbie doesn't mean somebody else should let theirs do the same. Moreover, how do you think that boy will get treated at school by the other kinds when he cracks out the fucking Barbie tea set at play time? Not well I suspect. Anyway, I will raise my son to be a true man, in the way I think is best, just like everybody else does.
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Isabella80s
Or... perhaps the ones that wouldn't allow it are the ones who need to 'chill the fuck out' as you so eloquently put it.
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squeallikeasacofpigs
Get a life, you're just going through this poll replying to old comments that you don't agree with. Just out for an argument. Nobody gives a fuck but you.
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Isabella80s
And? If you looked closer, you'd see that I've agreed with a comment too. You're a bully who calls people names when you can't put forward a sensible point. I've been through worse than being called a few names so I wouldn't bother with that - water off a duck's back.
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ucipher8
i played with my sister's dolls to recreate sexual scenes. i was about 5.
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ccjigsaw
I used to play barbies with the little boy down the street. Just saying. It's just a toy. We're the ones who put gender spacifics on it, kids don't care about that stuff.
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[Old Memory]
I don't plan to have children,
but if I did one day then yes.
As a little girl,
I used to play with toy bugs and dinosaurs
while watching DBZ.
Even if my son became gay later on in life,
then I would still love him.
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Goodfellas71
I never had any sons, but if I had, yes I would let him play with dolls.but only if he asked me. I wouldn't encourage it but I wouldn't deny him the dolls either. Boys grow up to be fathers and I think it's a good way for a boy to practice bring a father. There's nothing wrong with it.
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ParanoidPhantom
I wouldn't just give them to him to play with unless he straight up asked for them. If he really wanted to, then sure, but otherwise, I'd be more concerned about other kids making fun of him, so I'd get him more "boyish" toys to play with.
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DADNSCAL
Kids should play with whatever they want. It's hoe they learn about the world and themselves.
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Maya05
I don't see a problem with it. If that's what he likes then I won't stop it.
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2_damgud_4
I think the little ones just go for what is interesting to them at the time .. But i wouldn't encourage him to play with girls dolls for example.
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Shackleford96
I would discourage him from playing with dolls, yes, but only by encouraging him to play with boy things instead of forcing him not to play with girl things. It also depends on how old the kid is I think.
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Legion
i dunno. Im not really against it, but i would be a little afraid of how the other kids might treat him.
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robbieforgotpw
Boys shouldn't play with dolls made for little girls. Little boys should play with toys encouraging masculinity. Call me old fashioned.
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kelili
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1000yrVampireKing
No my kids are all going to play G.I Joe and military school and after will join the service.
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randypete