Something seems to be changing in the toy world when, as we told you a few days ago, some brands are making catalogs without differentiation by sex. It is something that had to have happened for a long time because we filled our mouths with the word equality for everything and then it turns out that we clearly tell children what toys they have to buy and which not.
Despite this, and even when all the catalogs are "unisex", it is likely that most children continue to differentiate their tastes a lot because, for example, My kids don't even want to hear about the Monster High, neither of Barbies, nor of anything that associate the girls.
"On Kings Day I think you will have a Monster High each"
I am so funny that these days, when I want to push you, I tell you that on Kings Day they will have one doll each. Sometimes I tell you a Monster High, sometimes a Barbie ... and I always get the same answer: they get angry and complain that I use heavy jokes. Then I tell them that if they wanted them, nothing would happen, that there are girls who like balls, Gormiti and swords and that it is normal ... but it does not strain, they do not want any of it.
Already, Armando, but your children have already suckled the sexualization of toys
Surely you will be thinking of telling me that it is logical, because my children have already seen advertisements of girls with dolls, catalogs of said toys with pink bottoms and the same girls with said toys in their hands, and you will be right.
At home we have done our best to give them the freedom to choose which toys to use and which not. In fact, until they have been cooking and a baby doll for a long time. Both were our choice, not theirs, and they have played with both, although the baby is already a little forgotten (now he is sitting in a shopping cart and the last time Aran took it was to paint his face with pen ) and the kitchen has not been used for a long time.
Then I doubt it: don't they want dolls and toys considered “as a child” because they have learned that they are for girls and not for boys or they don't want them because directly they don't like that style of toys?
Genetics have an important role
I ask the question because a few years ago we could see that many babies under 8 months choose the type of toys they like and get it right with stereotypes: toddler babies like trucks more and girls like dolls.
Other studies done with monkeys (which do not watch toy catalogs or TV ads) have also shown that males are more interested in balls and toy cars than females, who opt for dolls and in them it has also been seen that by hormonally altering the subjects (adding female hormones to the males and vice versa) the choices vary.
That is, I will never know if my children get mad at me when I talk to them about dolls because they were born to hate them or because they have learned to hate them. In any case, I think the step taken from the media to leave is very important Let the children decide what toy is for them and which one is not.
