Remember it also rolls down stairs alone or in pairs, and over your neighbors dog.

My daughter has a kid’s tool set. She also has dolls and stuffed animals. She makes my husband be the nurse*, and then she pretends to operate on her dolls with her tools. I never would have thought that a hammer could cure a sick unicorn, but I guess that’s why I’m not the doctor.

Oh lord. I remember my dad was concerned that my brother would turn out gay because he wanted one of those..... what do you call them, the little toy ovens you can make actual cupcakes in. My mom got him one anyway, and AFAIK he’s 100% straight but does like cooking.

Oh shit, Slinkey-dog was a real toy? I thought Pixar made that up.

They went through a gender-shift starting in the 90s or so, when they introduced something like “Lego town” which was supposed to appeal to girls. It kind of worked, so then they made Lego Town pink and teal. Which, ok, I was super mad that my aunt got me the stupidest Lego House set but it was fun to have some new…

well I’m sure he’ll turn out perfectly normal if he associates touching a female figure with his mother going ballistic

You joke, but my sister in law flies into a rage if her toddler son plays with any of his older sisters’ toys. She’s convinced that he’ll turn out gay (horrors) if he so much as touches a barbie.

I remember it too. It took me exactly 2 minutes to come up with it. (memory hasn’t gone yet. yay!) The wallpaper is horrifying.

Dating myself here. I remember this commercial. What i didn’t, nor would I have noticed when I was still in single digits, is that wallpaper. What a nightmare.

Well, yeah but a log is big and heavy and wood. It’s better than bad, it’s good.

Thank you for reminding me that Free to Be You and Me exists. I will spend the rest of the day humming “William’s Doll” to myself and feeling enraged that nothing has changed.

There have been a couple of different stores I’ve been to where they had pens at the counter to sign receipts and such, and the pens had artificial flowers taped to them to prevent people from walking off with them. At both places they removed the flowers, and when I commented on this fact the response was the same.…

“Ah tell yuh hwhat.”

One of my son’s favorites when he was a toddler. NBD.

But what if it’s a log and it’s fun for a girl AND a boy?

No kidding. Once I bought what I thought were cool new toys for my young niece and nephew. Instead, they played with a funnel all afternoon. Apparently funnels are good fake trumpets.

Can we stop with the mullets though?

Wait until they find out that sometimes girls have short hair and boys have long hair.