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There was a discussion about gaming a day or so ago, and it mentioned "Barbies Horse Adventure"
Which lead me to remember a tumblr post about how girls played with Barbies as a kid. And "The Dead Pit"
https://www.reddit.com/r/tumblr/comments/94rzhu/all_hail_the_dead_pit/
You have to read the entire thread, because it definitely puts paid to the idea of "sugar and spice and all things nice"........
lol my childhood was the opposite, I had ALL the gendered stuff and ran around as a knight with a glowy sword one day and as a princess the next.
(Deep thoughts about the gender binary coming in, feel free to skip) Now I wonder if my parents would've objected in any way if I was a boy. There is after all a certain misogynistic notion that it's fine for girls to be a bit boyish and "not like the other girls" because boy = good and male = standard. Whereas it's degrading for a boy to be girlish in any way because girl = weak. ... I don't like thinking about my parents like that, they were just happy I was interested in all kinds of things.
I think it was Wanda Sykes [I have no original thoughts, I just repeat jokes] who made this joke.
A woman can wear a men's suit with a tie and people will say she's being fashion forward.
If a man wears a pink shirt he's deeply suspicious.