Polly the Dog

During class we started a discussion over the kind of things each of us played with when we were little. Some of the things listed were: Barbies, Bratz, Pokemon, Polly Pockets, and figurines. At the end of class we came to the conclusion that it was more of the girls that played with such unrealistic toys. Although it might have applied to many of the guys in our class, I disagree.

When I was growing up I had a friend, who was a guy, that ALWAYS wanted to play Polly Pockets with me; this differs from the wide known stereotype that only girls play with such toys. I would gladly agree to play and we would begin playing with "once upon a time Polly did this...and then that." Back then and even up to today, I have had to keep my promise to him that I would not tell anyone just because he thought everyone would make fun of him.  That is what I don't understand, why can't an innocent boy play with a toy he thinks is fun? Why is a toy such as a pink elephant associated with a baby girl, why not a blue elephant? Emily Prager used rhetoric through asking herself and her readers the same "what's wrong with this picture?" kind of questions. Jesus did not create the two genders with a specific color or toy picked out for each. I do not think that gender matters when relating how much a boy or a girl played with toys, I think it was just a matter of what they thought was fun.