Amused by the idea that dolls are "girl toys," and
that action figures and puppets are somehow completely distinct from dolls and
therefore acceptable for boys to play with.
It's not even as if they're
distinguished by whether the doll is supposed to be masculine or feminine.
There are action figures of women and dolls that are supposed to be boys. It
also has nothing to do with the imaginary scenarios they're cast into. When I
was little, my Barbies fought in a lot of time-travel wars and the Megazord
hosted tea parties. (There was also a whole ongoing love triangle between a
Barbie, the green Power Ranger, and Ariel, but that was another story.)
It's just weird
how we create all these arbitrary barriers. Any toy that's modeled to look like
a person is, for all practical purposes, a doll--and that's fine.
