Once again, I was told that "girls and boys are obviously different, because...."

[conuly]

"...my girl never played with toy cars I naively bought her!"

First, let me say that this does not at all agree with my own experience. I routinely see girls playing with toy trucks, and boys playing with cooking stuffs. Seriously.

But anecdotal evidence, I know, I know. My anecdotal evidence is no better than their anecdotal evidence. Except that in order for me to believe this "TRUCKS!" argument, I would have to believe that somehow, ten thousand years of evolution occured (more! I know!) just so that baby boys would play with toy cars, something that wasn't even invented until very recent generations. And girls would play with - what, make-up? Because there's no culture in the world where men care at all about their appearance and wear make-up. (Unless they're really gay, and no culture in the world accepts that because it's unnatural, right? And they all have nuclear families with two-person marriages, one male and one female, because that's logical and it just makes the most sense, all right!)

I don't buy it. If you want to convince me that girls and boys play differently at this young age, you'll have to show me something a little less superficial. Prove to me that girls talk more, or that boys run up and down more, and I'll at least blink an eye a couple of times.

Otherwise, it's just your eyes and ears against mine, and mine will always win. ('cuz they're right, of course!)

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[conuly]

I'm also sorry for keeping this up. I meant to drop the subject, but then I thought maybe it was more rude not to answer you. Not sure which is better....