[lbo-talk] boy toys

[Doug Henwood]

[Ivan, now age 16 months, kind of likes his doll, likes his toy motor  
vehicles, and likes playing with cookware not by merely banging it  
but also by making pretend cooking moves. Wonder if the Post would  
approve.]

New York Post [Page Six] - May 7, 2007

Boy Toys

DOES the New York Times brainwash its editors into being so  
politically correct it affects the way they raise their kids? In his  
upcoming book, "Father Knows Less," the Gray Lady's city editor  
Wendell Jamieson writes how he worried about "giving in to sexist  
stereotypes by so enthusiastically encouraging" his toddler son  
Dean's love of trucks and buses. So he and his wife, Helene, bought  
the boy a toy kitchen with a play oven and microwave. Then they gave  
him "a girl doll [with] blond hair and a blue-checkered dress."  
Luckily, the youngster's masculinity prevailed - one day Jamieson  
found the doll stuffed in the toy microwave.