Vive la difference — Boys, girls, and plastic cutlasses
17th Nov 2006, 03:23 GMT
I’ve often heard mothers of little boys laughing resignedly about their sons’ interest in toy guns, swords, and other weapons, and talking about how even if you take the plastic pistols away they’ll make new ones out of Tinkertoy or sticks. All three of my daughters loved to play “make believe” when they were little, but I never saw the weapons fixation of which my friends with boys spoke. They neither asked for toy weapons nor fabricated them, generally speaking — perhaps there has been a sword or two made out of a wrapping paper tube.
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