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DOES KIDS TOYS HAVE GENDER?

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Earlier this week, a parent of a 7-Year-old Boy posted on Twitter “My Son chopped fat chunks off my wig today to make extensions for his dolls” it was how liberal she was as she posted unbothered by the fact that her son CHOSE to play with dolls. I say chose because it's his choice to play with dolls.  "As someone who grew up with tons of dolls, seeing those tweets took me back and I saw my younger self defending my choices. Luckily it was my parents who bought me dolls. It was my choice to play with dolls and I didn't see anything wrong with my choices. Playing with dolls as a child didn't condition me to be gay. Instead, what bothers me is why do we attach gender to children's toy's" says Romley The comments went viral, attacking the Parent, why is her son playing with dolls? This raised a lot of questions about toys having a gender, does that mean if My Son is playing with a Ken doll, is he Gay? On a National Pride month nogal, people have guts to quest