TONKA!

There is a commercial on TV right now advertising this Tonka truck for little boys (specifically!!) that they can sit on and scoot around on, etc. And the commercial starts on saying something like, "BOYS! They're just built different!" And it goes on about this truck for a while and how active little boys are and how masculine the Tonka truck is (or.. something to that effect). At the very end it says "TONKA! BUILT FOR BOYHOOD!!"

I mean, sometimes girls like to scoot around on trucks, too. Jeez. That sounds way better than playing house, in my opinion. Damned gender behavior forced on our children. Just yesterday in my human sexual behavior class, the instructor read us some DISNEY books that she bought for her girls, to demonstrate this. In all three of the books she showed us, the boy characters were being active and solving problems and getting dirty and being very in-control while the little girl characters did things like housework (outdoors, no less!) and be the "helpers" to the little boy characters, and then the boy characters for ALL the credit in the end. Oh, Walt. You slay me.

I can't decide if my anger towards the commercial is rational or irrational. This is my constant dilemma. I also probably didn't describe this well enough. Whoops.


Where is spring?