conuly

Oh yes, I loved legos and building blocks of all sorts. Plus, I had some of the legos with the wheels attached, so I made little vehicles out of lego. It wasn't so bad because I had computer games from a pretty young age. But my brothers generally had cooler toys than I did. And I was either discouraged from them because I was female or told that I could play with theirs, which was blatantly false as my mother would just say this to me as if clearly it was possible whereas there was no house rule that required them to let me play with their toys and in practice I very much could not play with most of their toys. Although sometimes I could get to use the lincoln logs, which I think I mostly liked from novelty. I wish the capsella had been in better shape. Capsella was very cool, but I was the youngest and by the time I was old enough to explore it most of the parts were gone and what was left was often grimy in disturbing ways.

Although when I got older and Rubik's magic came out I spent a while very happily working out all sorts of things with it. But I dislike the notion that some toys are for boys and some are for girls.