blogs at Christianity Today:
I read Owen Strachan’s recent rant against a Sesame Street episode in which “Baby Bear” is told it’s OK for boys to play with dolls on the same day my six-year-old son took his Matey Anchors doll to school for show and tell. Maybe my reaction would have been different at a different time. …
When we say baby dolls are for girls, that only girls should cuddle and coo dolls, we claim that babies are women’s domains, that only mothers should rock and coo and play with their children. What a horrible thing to teach our kids (though it’s a common enough claim in our culture). It’s a view shared by the “my body/my choice” crowd as well TV writers who malign sitcom dads as doofuses. Strachan probably never imagined he had so much in common with these folks.
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