Richardcyoung.com

The Online Home of Author and Investor, Dick Young

  • Home
  • How We Are Different
  • About Us
    • Foundation Principles
    • Contributors
  • Investing
    • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • Your Survival Guy
  • The Great Reset
  • COVID-19
  • My Rifles
  • Dividends and Compounding
  • Your Security
  • The Swiss Way
  • Dick Young
  • Debbie Young
  • Key West
  • Paris
  • Dick’s R&B Top 100
  • Liberty & Freedom Map
  • Your Health
  • Ron Paul
  • Bank Credit & Money
  • Dick Young’s Safe America
  • Your Survival Guy’s Super States
  • Critical Race Theory
  • NNT & Cholesterol
  • Work to Make Money/Invest to Save Money

A Radical Concept: Boys and Girls Are Different

October 3, 2016 By Debbie Young

From the WSJ’s Notable & Quotable: Jonathan V. Last explains how kids who are given gender-neutral toys will, on their very own, “gender the heck out of them.”

When he was four, our eldest, a boy, discovered that sticks make for highly effective swords. . . . His sisters, meanwhile, gravitated toward decidedly less aggressive play. They use sticks as fairy wands and carry little Ziploc baggies of glitter which they sprinkle as “pixie dust.” In their games, there are no “bad guys,” only perilous situations—“Don’t fall off that cliff!”—where they have to help one another with their “magic.”

Over the years we’ve noticed that whenever a “non-gendered” toy is introduced into their habitat, the kids appropriate it along stereotypically gendered lines. Example: A few years ago there was a Rainbow Loom craze, where kids took tiny rubber loops and wove them into bracelets. Everyone was doing it. We bought thousands of the things for our kids. The girls wove bracelets that they collected and gave to their friends. The boy also wove bracelets—until he realized that he could use the rubber loops to weave a long elastic cord that he was then able to tie to a flexible piece of wood. He used the Rainbow Loom to build a workable bow. . . .

We never taught our kids any of this stuff. They just arrived at it on their own. Because—I understand that this is a radical concept—boys and girls are different.

Are gender specific toys a hazard to children? | FACTUAL FEMINIST

If you’re willing to fight for Main Street America, click here to sign up for the Richardcyoung.com free weekly email.

Related Posts

  • Syria’s Radical Melting Pot
  • Remembering Summer with the Beach Boys
  • Johnson Mountain Boys
  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Debbie Young
Debbie, editor-in-chief of Richardcyoung.com, has been associate editor of Dick Young’s investment strategy reports for over three decades. When not in Key West, Debbie spends her free time researching and writing in and about Paris and Burgundy, France, cooking on her AGA Cooker, driving her Porsche Boxter S through Vermont and Maine, and practicing yoga.
Latest posts by Debbie Young (see all)
  • President Joe Biden’s Good Question - May 25, 2022
  • Biden IGNORES Americans’ Pain at the Pump, Touts “Green Transition” - May 24, 2022
  • Our Daily Bread Threatened? - May 23, 2022

Dick Young’s Must Reads

  • Joel Salatin and Alfie Oakes, America’s Food Kings
  • “The Great Object Is that Every Man Be Armed”
  • Your Best State on Guns, Plus the 8th Wonder of the World
  • Rich Grandchild, Poor Grandchild
  • Yes! Money Can Bring You Happiness
  • You’ve Read The Last Issue of Intelligence Report, Now What?
  • America’s Silent Army with 423M Guns
  • Progressive Liberalism Has Dragged America near Ruination
  • Is Rutin Useful in Preventing Blood Clots?
  • My Smith & Wesson Revolvers Home Defense Team

Disclosure

RSS Youngresearch.com

  • Your Survival Guy: “Life on Main Street Hasn’t Been This Hard in a While”
  • China Builds an Anti-Quad Coalition
  • If You Have a Plan, I Believe You’ll Get to Where You Want to Go
  • There Are Tech Companies “Still Dreaming of Boundless Growth”
  • Nowadays, Everyone Is Getting Some Dividend Religion
  • How Can the Fed Prevent Stagflation?
  • How to Avoid the Restrictions of a Target Date Fund
  • Now You Can Own Your Vacation and It Doesn’t Have to Be a Time Share
  • Watch Out for Your Worst Enemy
  • Big Banks Adopting Blockchain for Short-Term Trading

KRISTALLNACHT: How Well Intentioned Gun Registries Become Tools of Evil

Your Survival Guy: “Life on Main Street Hasn’t Been This Hard in a While”

Is America About to Lose Its Investments in Colombia?

POWER MOVE? Did Viktor Orban Just Seize Control of Hungary?

Americans Are Abandoning ESPN and Woke Professional Sports Leagues

If You Have a Plan, I Believe You’ll Get to Where You Want to Go

Copyright © 2022 | Terms & Conditions | About Us | Dick Young | Archives