letting boys play with dolls?

Question

Do you think it is okay for boys to play with dolls or girls to play with toy guns or toy trucks? does playing with gender specific toys affect a child's sexuality?

i do not believe that the toys a kid plays with affects their sexuality; mostly because kids are not thinking about sex when they are playing with toys, it's adults that try to make things gender specific.

Answer 1

It doesn't have any thing to do with their sexuality. My boys had dolls and they also had toy guns, trucks etc. They have grown to be very responsible very heterosexual young men. They are also very well rounded and good with their children.

Answer 2

Yes, I would and I will. Letting a boy roleplay a parent-child relationship can only be beneficial, not harmful or able to turn him "gay." Do you people honestly think letting a little boy play with a doll will make him decide "Hmm... playing with dolls as a kid was fun, I want to have sex with men!" C'mon now. I have a daughter now and she LOVES her baby dolls. I think it is helping prepare her for how to be gentle with babies for when her brother is born in 2 months, as she has never touched a real baby before. When he gets older I will let him play with her dolls. I'll buy him more masculine ones, you know, wearing blue and all that. But I won't care if he and my daughter are in her room playing with her babies. What's the worst that could happen? He learns some parenting skills and is a good dad? My daughter has toy cars too, she likes to roll them around on the floor yelling "vroom vroom" and crash them into things. Does that mean she's gonna be a lesbo? Hmm... I doubt it. And to answer your question, yes I do believe there is a double standard.

Answer 3

I don't think it should matter... I played with a lot of boy toys growing up and I don't have any sexual identity problems! Heck, I'd dress my boy cousins up in my play clothes and they are both straight, lol. Boys should be allowed to play with dolls because most of them will be dads someday and what do you think little girls pretend? That they are little mommies. Girls should be allowed to play with trucks, etc. because they are just using their imagination. Why a doll or a truck are gender specific to people I don't know... A boy can very well grow into a dad and a girl can very well grow into a truck driver!! Moms and dads (to me it seems more the dads) just get paranoid I think.

Answer 4

i agree that people make a big deal about their kids playing with toys aimed to the opposite gender. It never confuses the child about themselves. All theyre concerned about is freaking playing and having fun. I played with power rangers all of my life and some toy guns and all that and I'm the girliest girl anyone has ever met. let kids be kids is what I say.

Answer 5

I don't think it matters at all whatever they want to play with whether it's a doll or a truck they should be able to play with without an adult deciding their sexuality, why does this world have to evolve around sex these days?

Answer 6

Couple things...

Gender identity and sexuality have a tenuous relationship at best. For example, men who become transgendered keep their sexual preference in tact. Many stay married.

No, gender specific toys have no bearing on sexuality or gender identity.

Answer 7

A Berkeley professor gave her son a doll. He removed one leg and turned the doll into a gun. So, sure, give boys dolls anytime.

BTW, the same liberal professor gave her daughter a truck, which she turned into a crib. This door swings both ways.

Answer 8

I think it messes a kid up way more to tell a kid they CAN'T play with something than just to leave them alone. My kids play with whatever they want to.