I’m a straight guy and I think the main reason I liked dolls as a kid was because they were more interesting to make up stories with. I was really into storytelling as a kid and a generic looking doll could be who ever I wanted it to be while an avengers action figure would be stuck as an avenger. Dolls for me were just funner when it came to making stories with em.
I love this answer, and I agree! It almost seemed like, for a while - much more thought and effort went into producing dolls than producing “action figures”
This is my exact experience (except that I'm actually gay lol) but I could create stories that included superheroes, max steels, plushies and fashion dolls. I loved creating stories for them, but I kept the dolls bc they are a lot more appealing to me, specially when I played them under water. I was mesmerized by their flowing hair, I just love them.
I'm a gal that I would say has a lot of both gendered interests, but that also means a lot of people have considered me more of a tomboy as I was rarely as open with my "girly" interests and I dressed and acted more "boyish". I have always loved playing with dolls, yes to this day as an adult, and the reason is the exact same as you which I think is really cool. So many different kinds of people can have the same reason for sticking with an interest that is put on the specific group of "Girly girls" Dolls should be for everyone cause they are damned fun to play with and make stories with^^
@@MariiiiMarija ya me too i have the money and everything ny parents just won't let me order them but they let my younger brother get pokemon cards with their money and he's barely younger than me
As a little gay boy, wherever my two sisters are at school, I would go to their room and played with their dolls like: Barbie, Disney Princess, and even Bratz dolls. I love playing with dolls and I really like to dress each of the dolls including styling their hair for fun. Heck! My favorite color is pink! But my sisters didn’t want me playing with their dolls, saying that the dolls are “meant for girls”, not for boys. My mom, being a supported Mexican mama she is, let me play with my sisters dolls while my two older sisters went to school. She doesn’t mind me playing with dolls. She knew I like dolls and she didn’t want me to stop playing with dolls and instead encouraged me to keep playing and use my imagination If boys want to play with dolls, let them. I don’t see the problem of boys playing with dolls and I don’t see the problem of girls playing with toy cars. But if they don’t want too, that's okay. The parent(s) or their guardian(s) cannot force kids to play with toys that’s base on their gender. We are supposed to support their decision, not criticize them. Toys are made by the people and are meant for everyone, boys AND girls, to play with.
I can relate except I didn't have older sisters I only have my god sister instead of her saying I can play with dolls it was my friends at school actually I don't think they were my friends but I definitely can relate to your story and thanks for sharing
I fell like the world is so sensitive of what you do, what you like, how you do it, what you play with, and what gender you are. I really don’t see why some mom’s and some dad’s tell their kid what type of toys to use they make toys for a reason, to play with, and use their little minds of creativity.
Exactly like when I was little I got my dolls and my brother got his cars and we would play with them together and my family thought it was weird. Now that I look back, we were some smart ass kids combining the toys like that
I agree. I like girls and guys toys equally. As a kid, I always wanted Batman logos, but my mom told me those were for boys. But now that I'm older, I realize that I was restricted as a kid. Children should play with toys no matter the gender.
for me it’s this.. I will give my daughter stereotypical girl toys and colors... because I want to and she doesn’t complain because she is a baby.. and they have done studies that say giving a child gender roles as a child is healthy.. unless u are pushing them.. but for me if my daughter doesn’t want to play with dolls or like pink I won’t force it. if my daughter doesn’t want to do dance when she is older I won’t force it. but I will put her in those things until she decides and can speak on what she wants.. I feel u do what U want or think is good for ur child.. until ur child can express they don’t want that or don’t like that thing u are giving them!
When I was in middle school my little brother and I used to play with my bratz and barbies together, both boys and girl dolls. He isn't gay, he just was a boy who also happened to enjoy playing dolls. I'm 18 now and he's 13, and we still reminisce and play a little even to this day. Just let them do what makes them happy.
I used to play with dolls when I was a little boy and people would start asking me questions like:”do you wanna be a girl?” “Are you gay?” And they would tell my parents that they should be ashamed of buying me dolls. But Now Im 15 I came out 3 years ago and still continue collecting dolls.
@@roseshair3750 yes, my grandfather collects silk stone Barbie. He claims it’s a coping mechanism ever since he lost his wife but he just love doll collecting
Excatly! They're the same types of toys just with different looks and stories. Toys are meant to have fun with and express your creativity through them. It's like adult products (ex: shampoos for men/women, creams, etc) same thing just labeled different but still serve the same purpose.
Yeah they are marketed with girls as the target audience but that doesn’t mean a boy will turn into dust if he plays with one Let the lil dude be happy
@@aestheticrose5920 generally it is intended for girls and the market does target girls but boys can also play with them and definitely should if they want to
My little brother use to play with my barbies when we where little and I would be the one playing with his toy cars and stuff lol it was this thing were we switched playing with toys for a day my parents didn’t care they thought it was cute
the thing that annoys me is that if a boy picked up a barbie and started playing with it he would get picked on bullied etc but let’s be honest if a girl starting playing with a action figure or cars they probs wouldn’t get picked on?!
So true, when I was small, I used to play with trains and cars (I’m a girl) and no one bullied me but one boy in our class wanted to play with some girls, who had babies or Barbies I can’t remember now and they totally humiliated him :/ From that point on he didn’t touch a doll.
I wouldn't be too sure about that... When I was around 11 or 12 I decided to try watching a Pokemon episode and found an episode on UA-cam, I go to school, say I watched episode one... And the boys start ganging up on me, asking me questions about Pokemon lore and when I couldn't answer them (partly cause I literally watched one episode and also because I was nervous/angry/upset) they were making fun of me "She doesn't even know what (...) is!" So... Yeah lol gender norms suck
When i was young, I played with dolls, I loved playing dolls with my cousin, but my family called me a sissy because I was a boy who liked dolls, it really hurt me emotionally, I also got called a sissy because I’m a sensitive person, and when I’d get upset and cousin defended me, I also got called a sissy for being defended by a girl
When I was growing up, I wondered why no one bats an eye when I (a female) liked boy things, ie kickball, hockey, and action/superhero cartoons, while boys get told off or feel embarrassed for liking girl things like Sailor Moon, dolls, and princesses.
My best guess is that it's a positive to be stronger and powerful. So girls doing boy things is seen as a good empowering thing. All that while degrading yourself and being weaker is seen as a negative. You know what's seen as weaker in a way? Feminine stuff. Because being girly has them not doing strong power things like wrestling and fighting and punching things and being a complete bad ass.
Dude, I grew up watching Sailor Moon, Disney Princess movies, and Tokyo Mew Mew, and I'm still straight. YOU CAN'T BECOME GAY FROM WATCHING CARTOONS OR ANIME! And I still have fond memories of them just like I also have fond memories of Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles, Ultraman, Spider-Man, Jurassic Park, Pokemon, Digimon, Dragon Ball, The Lion King, and Godzilla.
My sister grew up playing with both Barbies and Power Rangers and Ultraman action figures as well as dinosaur toys and Hot Wheels. Meanwhile, I grew up playing with toy animals and cars as well as Pokemon toys and Lego.
I'm female and strongly preferred "boy" toys as a kid. I remember a hell of a lot of backlash from adults but luckily the other kids didn't seem to care.
That’s actually pretty uncommon . Most of the time girls playing with “ boy toys “ is a None issue tho with boys playing with “ Girls toy “ it’s always an issue growing up
@@razminfox1787 That actually a problem with society. Boys usually can't have anything that isn't what is expected. It's often seen in fashion too. Girl wears a hoodie or shorts,no one bats an eye. Boy wears a skirt or anything pink- *"GAY!"* (Not saying being gay is a bad thing,it's just annoying...)
Boys should really play with dolls they can express themselves with them. I wish the world didnt have ruleas surronding on which toy boys and girl play with! Edit: This is too Dr Phil, Ive really learnt that im actually gay since i was 7 i didnt pass puberty to learn i liked boys, I used to think being gay was bad so i was homiphobic. Now i changed because now i know its ok and love is Love!
I would have liked my parents to see this video when I was a child. I am from Mexico and here people are conservative and macho. Being a little boy I liked to play with dolls, But my mother would not let me, she thought it was a sin, I remember her telling me that if she saw me play with a doll she would burn my fingers, so that I would stop playing with dolls. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? Today I am a young gay boy happy with my femininity and I don't think it has to do with playing with dolls. Toys have no gender. Thanks Clawdeena for this. 🙏🥰
As a trans guy who has gotten back into doll collecting after being more comfortable in myself. I believe dolls should be for anyone regardless of gender. Because if I was told this when I was younger I probably wouldn’t have stopped collecting and put away my dolls for years. But my dolls are now proudly out on my shelves which has made me really happy.
They (dolls) made me more sensitive, more down to earth, made me who i am as a person today!!! my childhood dolls and “girl” toys (although i dont have them with me bcz my mom threw them away) were one of the big reasons i love drawing, fashion, etc!!!! (English is not my first language sorry for any mispelings/errors)
I feel like this could be said with age as well. People judge you for still collecting dolls when you're an adult because they think it's "childish". They make you feel ashamed to like a "kids toy". But for me, they inspire me to create original characters from different doll franchises; Monster High, Barbie, you name it. So screw what other people think. If it makes you happy, do it! Dolls are for all ages!
Totally agree with this comment. I feel this is very true for Generation X and Millennial. I think Z and after may not have that issue because their parents went through it and don't want to put their kids through it.
I let my kids be kids and do wtf they want as long as it isn't hurting themselves or someone else. My 13 year old used to be obsessed with Sunset Shimmer from MLP's Equestria Girls. I literally bought him a cosplay costume from Etsy for Sunset Shimmer that he wore happily at BronyCon. My 8 year old is very maternal in behavior with anything from dolls/action figures to plushes. He carries them like they're his babies and brings them to us for hugs and kisses lol It's adorable. I don't use how they play or what they choose to wear to define them. That's an experience for them.
My mom would legit go out of her way to ask for a hot wheel car and a Barbie when buying two happy meals for my sister and I (I also am a girl). Because she was annoyed that they were labeled as boy and girl toys. Originally powder blue was for girls, pink for boys. Red for men, darker blue for women. Blue was seen as the weaker color because of how it faded over time. Red was the stronger color and since pink was a derivative of red it was assigned to boys.
As a straight guy that enjoys to be creative I played with toys that interested me most to make stories with being both Lego and monster high! And sometimes even combined the two
I think it is important to introduce kids from the youngest age to all kinds of toys (made for their age group). It's no surprise that a girl who only has "girl toys" at home would more likely play with dolls in kindergarten, same with boys and "boy toys". With all kinds of toys at home children will have the true CHOICE of what they want to play with, whether it is a girl who ends up liking soft animal plushies, a boy who loves dinosaur figurines, a girl interested in cars or a boy who can't imagine his life without dolls.
These videos are really showing me why I don’t connect with my dad as much. When I was younger I use to always play with my sisters doll. I would play with them and when they would leave I would ask them if they could atleast leave one that I could play with while they would come back. Everytime my dad saw me playing with one he would always tell me to put it down. I remember one time I was playing with my sister in the kitchen and he told me to get up and kick it. So I did, but now growing up i’m now seeing that, that is wrong. But now I understand why I don’t really like my dad. Yeah he might buy me dolls now, but that part of the past still stick with me. I can feel myself growing away from him. I’ve lived with him my whole life, going on 15 years and I STILL feel more connected with my moms side. She always understood me. Back to before the one doll that I really want today was one I had when I was a kid. I was playing with it in my room and I got up to go use the bathroom. I came back to my room and it wasn’t there. I asked my dad where it was and he said he threw it away.
My mom raised me, my brother and my sisters playing together equally with girl toys and boy toys. It's the best experience to put kids in the perspective of other genders. In fact my brother never turned out to be gay at all, (he is married and has 3 little kids) but with that experience we never had that stereotypical girl-boy siblings relationship, and I'm really proud of how my brother turned out to be, because he always respected us and saw us as equals.
I'm a guy and I play with dolls like River from rainbow high he looks exactly like me so I got him and more boys should not be embarrassed for liking girl toys💖💙
I am so happy i grew up in a time where toys weren't specifically gendered. Like we'd have a toddler isle, an isle with all the dolls and princess, an isle with crafts and legos, and then an isle with like superheroes but it never specifically said boy/girl it was usually just people around you saying which isle was for who
I remember when I was Eleven my little cousin would love to play with my LPS and dolls. It was a way for him and I to bond, as I wasn't interested in baseball or sports. But his dad would get incredibly mad every time he'd catch him with onel even if he was using one of his actions figures when playing. It really angered me at the time, and still does to this day, because it ruined the fun we had shared together for years.
Was always playing dolls with my cousin She had Bratz and I was so jealous 😂 Never had a doll younger and my mom was always asking me to tone it down whenever I was too flamboyant.. so asking for a doll was never an option. Im 29 now (almost 30) and during the pandemic, I started collecting dolls and it brings me so much joy 😊 feels like Im making up for what I didnt have as a child. 🙌
My mom literary lets my brother play with my dolls, it's pretty common for him to style them with me or my sister. It's not even a bad thing a doll is just a toy.
as a boy who played with dolls when I was younger and still has an obsession with looking online for first wave Abby Bominable for under 50 dollars, I hate this stereotype. I think the reason I liked dolls so much was bc one, the hair, and two, the stories I could make. I mean all I could do with cars was make someone die in a car crash and 5 year old me didn’t even know what dying was yet. I still have a bin of dolls in the guest room that I take out every so often just to feel the nostalgia, and I refuse to give them away bc you know what, yes I still have an emotional connection to my Venus McFlytrap doll and I’m not afriad to admit it
Im a straight cis male but i play with dolls, yes i get mocked sometimes and some people think it’s weird but I just don’t understand how toys can effect sexuality when sexuality isn’t a choice.
I’ve been watching this channel ever since I was 11 I’m now 22 this helped so much through my childhood and honestly I like dolls because I like fashion that dosent make me less of a man because I like those things I still collect dolls but I hide it from some people because they’ll think it’s weird but at the end of the day it’s what makes me happy so screw your bias social norms thanks so much clawdeena you inspire me until this day ♥️
I am going to tell my own story here. I was a tomboy growing up in the late 90s. I loved playing outside and not always looking pretty. I have scars from falling down and hurting my knees. I loved Pokémon and Dragon-Ball Z, and loved a lot of "boy toys". But I also loved playing with my Barbies and baby dolls. And Bratz became my life when I was 10 in 2001. But growing up with a Latin mom that wanted certain social norms for me, made me have an identity crisis from a small age. I was told not to like those boy things and only like girly things. I hated it, pink was not my favorite color blue was, I didn't love makeup and nail polish. And was always told to wear dresses. It made me feel as if I wasn't love for begin myself or accepted. That was the worst and I had issues with self-esteem when I was a teenager. I honestly feel if my mom had let me just play, and like whatever show or toy I wanted. I wouldn't have had such an identity crisis as a child. I can never tell anyone how to parent. But please stop placing your ideals on your kids. Let them come into their own, teach them to love and accept themselves. Our parents generation really has a problem with putting people into boxes and then getting mad when they don't want to stay there.
My dad had a dollhouse. He and his brother used to play with their mother's doll buggy as well. They tried to soup it up to be a race car, but the cat would have nothing to do with driving it...
I'm a gender noncomforming woman, I like to dabble with masculinity and presenting myself in a way most comfortable to me. My roommate and best friend is very traditionally masculine, "hick"-like. My passions are art, comic books, cartoons. His are cars, tanks, and fallout-style aesthetics. However, we've talked at length about the toys we liked as children and how we both think toys shouldn't be gendered. He's told me he liked playing with his female cousins because all of their toys came with the cool, big, colorful cars that made sounds and had lights. They had miniature kitchens (he loves minatures) and everything was more detailed and more colorful. I've told him that I never liked playing with dolls, but I did love plush toys and I loved the powerpuff girls and sailor moon. I preferred "boy" toys because they were centered around superheroes and cool fire and ooze and all that stuff. Gender normative play was still encouraged in my childhood (though not forced) and I still turned out to enjoy leaning more masculine with my femininity in tact. My friend was encouraged to play with gender normative toys but still LOVED to play with female-coded toys, (he also loved sailor moon and the pretty aesthetics) and he is still very much so a "manly"-type man. I'm sharing this as like, an example to people that don't understand: toys literally have nothing to do with your sexuality or how you present yourself. They're just a way to express yourself when nothing else in your control as a child, and how to have FUN. Kids should be allowed to have fun.
I bought Bratz Boyz when I was 11. Was SO happy, FINALLY O could identify with a Bratz too. But my parents, sister, family all shamed med for it and laughed. So I ONLY took en out at night to look at en. I used to play with Barbies and dolls all the time, but always wanted a male fashion-doll that was not booring Ken
As a historian, color association and meaning have more to do with it than gender norms. Blue is often scene as connecting to the ocean and the sky, from this it is also associated with intellectual and fertility. This fertility is what lent it to a more feminine presentation. Pink on the other hand was seen as a baby color of red, which was associated with blood, war, and leadership-this led it towards a more masculine presentation as men at the time were allowed to take leadership roles and women traditionally were not. So pink would eventually become red for boys and blue would stay blue for girls and women. This wasn't universal as nothing historically ever was but this trend in Europe is some of what laid the groundwork for our modern culture and association. The mass marketing is defiantly what led to a flip flop as pink was disconnected from red and seen as its own color. Love your videos!
I was with my little cousins the other day (one girl, two boys). My girl cousin wanted to pay with a hairdressing toy set she got for her birthday. My boy cousins wanted to braid and brush my hair, (without me forcing them yk). I wanted to brush one of my boy cousins hair and put a hair clip and he said "that's for girls." I obviously told him no, its not. I told him it was no different from brushing his hair in the morning for school. He asked me again "so its ok to play with my sisters dolls if I want to? " and I said "yes, totally." And mind you, he LOVES cars and nerf guns. Just because a little boy likes to brush and braid his hair and put hairclips on, does not mean that he will not like "boys toys" as well, and vice versa.
I remember when I was little I was at the shops in the monster high aisle and a boy was there picking up a doll. I was confused, so I asked my mum "Why is the boy here?". I assumed that he was buying one for his sister or something. Now I realise that dolls are for everyone✨ and also that he was probably picking it for himself💕
the fact that this video buzzed up a childhood memory I had with one of my male cousins when I was little! When we were younger, my cousin and I used to play with our toys, I'd bring over mlp and Barbie, and he'd bring over WWE. The thing about what happened next was actually wholesome, and it's that we played with them together just like we always did. Other memories like me and him playing spider-man and spider-girl saving the world, or how in Summer Camp, me and a couple of my female friends with one or two male friends joined in the playground and used our imagination to our advantage really says things about us all. And it's that, just things seem "girly" doesn't mean that they're less than the other that is more "masculine". Instead, these memories helped teach me empathy towards the male friends and cousins that I'm surrounded with and loved for a long time, and I bet even more so to them. I don't know, I'm just giving my two cents.
This breaks my heart, my 7 yr old son collects dolls and has long hair, that doesn't make him less of a boy 💔 thankfully we have filled him up with so much self love he laughs when people tell him he needs haircut or his dolls are for girls
I don't get why some people think boys shouldn't be able to play with dolls my cousin was never allowed to play with dolls it really sucked and it honestly always made me really mad. Everytime he'd come over we'd have to wait for his mom and stepdad to leave for him to be able to play with us
I live in michigan and i was shopping at Walmart. I saw a lil boy in the barbie isle picking out a doll for himself. I thought it was cute. Hey they can do it too. Equality for all!!!
Me and my cousin, who is a guy, played with my barbies and his Max steel dolls all the time, we created weird "telenovela-like" stories xd He watched Barbie movies on his own, not because of me, but because he was interested on them. Still, he liked his "masculine" toys: hotwheels, dinosaurs and max steels, and he's straight. I played with Barbies, Monster High dolls, Baby dolls, Littlest Pet Shop and I wore dresses, damn, I liked so many girly things at the point that I am a Lesbian xd jajkskajsjsjsk. Making your Barbie doll have an affair with a Max Steel doll while you watch The Princess and The Pauper or making the same old dinosaur fight with your cat won't make you neither gay nor straight. Another cousin's mom wont let her son play with girls toys and she made fun of my brother for playing with a Barbie (for which he almost cried for me to give it to him). It's not fair that you don't want to force your child to play with something while forcing them to play with something else, sToP dOiNg ThAT >:U (sorry for shitty english, it's not my native language and I don't trust google translator that much)
i don't really understand why there is such a big fuss about dolls for every kid. Let kids play, let them collect dolls, let them become adults and still have fun with or, as in your case, have a wellknown youtube-channel and earn money. When i was a kid, boys and girls played together, with Barbie dolls, wrestling dolls, dinosaurs, cars and everything and it was gorgeous. You do a very fine job in making videos and collecting the dolls for your personal fun and isn't it what we all want the most? A job where we could do what we love?
Me and my brother loves to play with dolls when we are a kid, he's not gay but he likes making story with my dolls!! Now it looks like I'm the only one stuck with my doll collecting habit 😂
Honestly, if a boy wants to play with dolls because he likes them, let him. He isn’t hurting anyone and it makes him happy. Idk why some people get upset that boys can like dolls
I agree, it’s a harmless, and in fact - helpful outlet for expression and creativity - I discuss some of the studies on how dolls can effect a boys development/behavior about halfway through the video!!
And people chose to paint their nursery room Yellow cause it's a "neutral" color. Just the let the kid do what makes it happy. My favorite color is blue and my baby blanket is blue and I'm a GIRL.
I had someone say "you're whats wrong with America today" to me because I let me toddler son wear clothes with pink or rainbows. Which is really stupid. Its not like I'm dressing my son in skirts. Just gender neutral clothing. And in colors that HE LIKES. Yeah, he loves rainbows, and most of the time when picking clothes he picks pink. I just get him all sorts of different options. Like toys wise, ive bought him cars, trucks, dinosaurs etc, as well as dolls and squishmallows. Separating stiff by gender for kids is so dumb. Especially when it comes to colors and toys.
I love those shows and I love rainbow high and totally spies and bratz and trollz myscene and Polly pocket strawberry shortcake and once upon a zombie and lol omg and more and mlp and lps and fairy tale high and more
The way adults are constantly trying to sexualize pieces of plastic will always baffle me, especially when the kid they’re harassing is probably too young to know how that stuff works.
Oop this video is finna be spicy y'all better some tea and popcorn cuz Chile also STOP FORCING HETEROSEXUALY on children leave them alone they are gonna grow up and be who they wanna be so if a boy wants to play with a Barbie SO FUCKIND WHAT if a girl wants to play with a hot wheel car so FUCKING WHAT like why are people pissed off about this like TF I don't get it
What an insightful video. You are very well-spoken and offer a very well rounded view here. Growing up gay, I was lucky to have parents that didn’t mind me playing with my sisters’ Barbies. They weren’t thrilled of me asking for my own, however, Mom did fight her way through Sears in 83 when she got me a Cabbage Patch Kid for Christmas. One of my sisters always played with me, whether it was dolls or my action figures and cars. I just loved all toys and so did she. Yes, I happened to be gay however, the male cousins who occasionally played with Jem dolls are hetero and just lost interest after a while. What’s great about videos like this is that they are supporting what many parents are already doing so well - Just let your kids be who they want.
I'm a boy I've been playing with dolls for years now my parents don't care at all there happy for who I am and if I didn't play with my dolls I wouldn't have started sewing clothes for them and honestly dolls are so much fun brushing there hair dressing them up in different clothing etc there just fun dolls are for both not just girls in my opinion
Collecting dolls as a boy shows that we dont need to be targeted for what we play with. I think dolls are amazing and that doesnt choose my gender! Loads of people need to get a brain! This video is FAX
READ PLEASE! I masterminded this topic! Yes I was a doll boy growing up in the 90s/00s - sports, trucks, heroes - simply wasn't my thing. I loved dolls cuz they offered much more variety in playing + I do like fashion & fairytales Barbie world had to offer, and all the creativity behind it. My parents were supportive of me - but they couldn't stop constant homophobic bullying from the outside world. Kindergarten teacher put me away from a dollhouse, a salesman once took me away from girl shelf in a toy store, a woman from neighborhood yelled at me for loving Barbie... I always wondered - ok if I can't play with Barbie, but why I can't play with Ken??? Oh nooo, its from girl section, nooo wayyy! Well its toy companies problem that they never made a forever changing male-doll doing all different activities (architect, doctor, superhero, vet, knight etc (Action-man did nothing except being outside in action -_-)) + even if such doll was on the market, if I still liked princess stuff, I want a princess - what was wrong with it??? We sometimes lied that dolls they got me were actually for my older sister.... but growing up came in: constant toxic masculinity & degrading the weaker is a harsh world boys learn as young as 6. School through all 12 yrs was a nightmare (physical violence too) - at the time you reach puberty, guys & girls are divided - but where to put a fem guy??? Where you will put a weak, unpopular, non-athletic boys??? Most common answer I got was 'don't act that way' (homophobia strikes in, its the exact same thing homophobes say to LGBT population 'do it behind your 4 walls only'). Not to mention that even teachers insult non-conforming guys. People see just 2 genders and 2 ideal roles - man & woman, anything thats not fitting in should be erased from the start. So as you can see - it all starts when we were born. We aren't homophobic or judgmental by nature - we are taught that way. We are taught about 'norms' - for this to be fixed, children should see all toys as gender-neutral + to learn LGBT stuff from young age; To see 2 husbands on a poster - no, it won't make them gay, just as Ariel & Eric didn't make them straight. Guys should know if they pick up to became a tailor or hairstylist it won't make them any less valuable man. Boys should play with dolls if they want to, there's nothing wrong with it. They are toys not drugs LOL. If he turns out to be fem & not crazy about cars, its not him that should be fixed, ITS SOCIETY THAT NEEDS FIXING! Stop fixing individuals to fit your stupid norms!!! For conclusion, I will just leave one quote from Madonnas album: "Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots cause it's okay to be a boy. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading cause you think being a girl is degrading"
As I was I child I was literally wanting barbie, my little ponys, makeup and yes iam gay I like how there pretty to look at change there clothes u can do anything with dolls and as till this day I rlly want a new doll cause all of my old dolls got thrown away
My 6 year old gets to CHOOSE what toys they get and clothes they wear. From an early age I bought clothes from both sections as I felt the female aimed clothes didn’t cover them properly compared to the boys and were only in pinks, cats and leopard prints colours. My child choose two big cars for their birthday, a fire engine and a bin truck and then some lol toys. I let them have what ever they are into.
also as someone who loves clowns & paints and is told over & over that everyone hates/is scared of, to all the little boys who like dolls just keep liking dolls the dolls will make you way happier then fake friends
My BEST FRIEND growing up was a boy. Our favorite thing to do was play with my barbies. I didn't think much of it all those years as a child, I guess I did see it as *different* that he was a boy but would play barbies with me. Those are the best memories of my life. Yes, he did discover that he was gay years later, but I'm so glad we got to make those memories. Toys help kids discover who they are! They should be a safe outlet
Dolls aren’t for girls only I think that they made them for children to play with them and use their creativity. I have loved dolls and monster trucks ever since my 2nd birthday but honestly let’s be real I feel bad that some moms don’t let their son’s play with them. P.S. love the videos you make my day 😁😁 When I was a little girl I loved playing with monster trucks but my friends forced me to play with dolls but some of my friends didn’t mind it but I think you shouldn’t judge anyone if they play with doll or cars but now I like playing with both kind of toys.
There are no “boy” and “girl” toys. Toys are for anyone if a boy wants to play with doll good for them, if a girl wants to play with a car good for them. Why do people care so much about what kind of toys kids play with if they’re having fun enjoying themselves. (and not hurting anyone)
I think toys are toys 🧸, colors are colors 💖🧡💛💚💙💜, Love is love 🏳️🌈👩❤️💋👩👨❤️💋👨, representations matter, BLM ✊🏿 ✊🏾 ✊🏽, and equality and equity is still needed
The slow fade on the avatar face with so much movement and pink bursts were super distracting but i loved this video so much, i love the deep dives into these topics!
Forcing a boy to play with a doll when he wants to play with cars is like forcing a boy to play with cars when he wants to play with dolls... Brilliant detailed video!
This even goes for gaming. People think that gaming should be for boys but gaming with girls are "unlady like" for people. Its a passion that girls can game. Some people need to understand that girls can game too.
I love how you always keeps us updated on what happens. But mostly the way you do it, like how you upgraded your self animation into a literal animation, it’s shows you really care. I love it❤️
I’m a straight guy and I think the main reason I liked dolls as a kid was because they were more interesting to make up stories with. I was really into storytelling as a kid and a generic looking doll could be who ever I wanted it to be while an avengers action figure would be stuck as an avenger. Dolls for me were just funner when it came to making stories with em.
I love this answer, and I agree! It almost seemed like, for a while - much more thought and effort went into producing dolls than producing “action figures”
@@Clawdeena9 for real!
This is my exact experience (except that I'm actually gay lol) but I could create stories that included superheroes, max steels, plushies and fashion dolls. I loved creating stories for them, but I kept the dolls bc they are a lot more appealing to me, specially when I played them under water. I was mesmerized by their flowing hair, I just love them.
I'm a gal that I would say has a lot of both gendered interests, but that also means a lot of people have considered me more of a tomboy as I was rarely as open with my "girly" interests and I dressed and acted more "boyish". I have always loved playing with dolls, yes to this day as an adult, and the reason is the exact same as you which I think is really cool. So many different kinds of people can have the same reason for sticking with an interest that is put on the specific group of "Girly girls"
Dolls should be for everyone cause they are damned fun to play with and make stories with^^
@@veveastrid I completely agree 👏👏👏
As a boy that plays with dolls I was ridiculed in 4th grade for it but it did not stop me and I still love dolls
I was also ridiculed as a boy so I gave up on them and gave mine away big mistake my parents won't let me buy any either :(
Same I thought I was the only one :’(
as you should💅🏻
@@hm3563 Aw man, that sucks :( Hope you'll be able to buy them in the future
@@MariiiiMarija ya me too i have the money and everything ny parents just won't let me order them but they let my younger brother get pokemon cards with their money and he's barely younger than me
As a little gay boy, wherever my two sisters are at school, I would go to their room and played with their dolls like: Barbie, Disney Princess, and even Bratz dolls. I love playing with dolls and I really like to dress each of the dolls including styling their hair for fun. Heck! My favorite color is pink! But my sisters didn’t want me playing with their dolls, saying that the dolls are “meant for girls”, not for boys.
My mom, being a supported Mexican mama she is, let me play with my sisters dolls while my two older sisters went to school. She doesn’t mind me playing with dolls. She knew I like dolls and she didn’t want me to stop playing with dolls and instead encouraged me to keep playing and use my imagination
If boys want to play with dolls, let them. I don’t see the problem of boys playing with dolls and I don’t see the problem of girls playing with toy cars. But if they don’t want too, that's okay. The parent(s) or their guardian(s) cannot force kids to play with toys that’s base on their gender. We are supposed to support their decision, not criticize them. Toys are made by the people and are meant for everyone, boys AND girls, to play with.
I can relate except I didn't have older sisters I only have my god sister instead of her saying I can play with dolls it was my friends at school actually I don't think they were my friends but I definitely can relate to your story and thanks for sharing
Agrre
As another gay boy, I completely agree. Things like clothes, toys and hairstyles shouldn't have a gender!
@@mcssugardaddy3011 so true
Totally agreee!!!!!
I fell like the world is so sensitive of what you do, what you like, how you do it, what you play with, and what gender you are. I really don’t see why some mom’s and some dad’s tell their kid what type of toys to use they make toys for a reason, to play with, and use their little minds of creativity.
Exactly like when I was little I got my dolls and my brother got his cars and we would play with them together and my family thought it was weird. Now that I look back, we were some smart ass kids combining the toys like that
fuck yeh man!!! like jesus , be happy we HAVE toys lmao!!! Otherwise people would be playing with fucking rocks or whatever .....
I agree. I like girls and guys toys equally. As a kid, I always wanted Batman logos, but my mom told me those were for boys. But now that I'm older, I realize that I was restricted as a kid. Children should play with toys no matter the gender.
for me it’s this.. I will give my daughter stereotypical girl toys and colors... because I want to and she doesn’t complain because she is a baby.. and they have done studies that say giving a child gender roles as a child is healthy.. unless u are pushing them.. but for me if my daughter doesn’t want to play with dolls or like pink I won’t force it. if my daughter doesn’t want to do dance when she is older I won’t force it. but I will put her in those things until she decides and can speak on what she wants.. I feel u do what U want or think is good for ur child.. until ur child can express they don’t want that or don’t like that thing u are giving them!
When I was in middle school my little brother and I used to play with my bratz and barbies together, both boys and girl dolls. He isn't gay, he just was a boy who also happened to enjoy playing dolls. I'm 18 now and he's 13, and we still reminisce and play a little even to this day. Just let them do what makes them happy.
awww that's adorable!!
That’s nice
i hate it when people say "BUT IF MY SON PLAYS WITH GIRL TOYS HE'LL TURN OUT GAY!" like its homophobic and not even true
@@lawl4403 right
I did the same thing, I play dolls with my sister (I’m a boy)
I think any gender can play with dolls and other toys if they want, as long as they have fun and be themselves!😊
I agree!
EXACTLY!
Exactly! Dolls are meant to be an expressive outlet for imagination and skill building
@@Clawdeena9 i 100% agree! I love you clawdeena!💜
@@Clawdeena9 yes!! exactly!!
I used to play with dolls when I was a little boy and people would start asking me questions like:”do you wanna be a girl?” “Are you gay?” And they would tell my parents that they should be ashamed of buying me dolls. But Now Im 15 I came out 3 years ago and still continue collecting dolls.
Same for me
@@mistyfaery5646
I live in an ultra conservative place were it is “not acceptable and gross”. So I have to hide my doll collection identity.
@@Braxton_McPhillips does your parents accept you just how you are?
@@roseshair3750 yes, my grandfather collects silk stone Barbie. He claims it’s a coping mechanism ever since he lost his wife but he just love doll collecting
There are no such thing as a "boy toy" and a "girl toy". A toy is a toy, simple.🧮🧸🪀
SAY IT LOUDER!!
Same with clothes
Yes!!
Well girls toys and boys toys are normally sold in adult stores... not a toy for a child lol.
Excatly! They're the same types of toys just with different looks and stories. Toys are meant to have fun with and express your creativity through them. It's like adult products (ex: shampoos for men/women, creams, etc) same thing just labeled different but still serve the same purpose.
Yeah they are marketed with girls as the target audience but that doesn’t mean a boy will turn into dust if he plays with one
Let the lil dude be happy
i love ur maya pfp 😏
@@carrot7911 maya Plush is my religion
isnt your pfp the girl from ace attorney?
“Let the little dude be happy” -Quote of the year
If they want to play with them, they can play with them. If he doesn’t, then he doesn’t. Simple 🤷♀️
Yeah boys can play with girl toys
Barbie never said that it was intended for girls
THANK U
@@aestheticrose5920 generally it is intended for girls and the market does target girls but boys can also play with them and definitely should if they want to
My little brother use to play with my barbies when we where little and I would be the one playing with his toy cars and stuff lol it was this thing were we switched playing with toys for a day my parents didn’t care they thought it was cute
But lots of people cant get this simple thing in their head
the thing that annoys me is that if a boy picked up a barbie and started playing with it he would get picked on bullied etc but let’s be honest if a girl starting playing with a action figure or cars they probs wouldn’t get picked on?!
And that's on double standards
So true, when I was small, I used to play with trains and cars (I’m a girl) and no one bullied me but one boy in our class wanted to play with some girls, who had babies or Barbies I can’t remember now and they totally humiliated him :/ From that point on he didn’t touch a doll.
I wouldn't be too sure about that... When I was around 11 or 12 I decided to try watching a Pokemon episode and found an episode on UA-cam, I go to school, say I watched episode one... And the boys start ganging up on me, asking me questions about Pokemon lore and when I couldn't answer them (partly cause I literally watched one episode and also because I was nervous/angry/upset) they were making fun of me "She doesn't even know what (...) is!" So... Yeah lol gender norms suck
My sister used to play with both Barbie dolls AND Ultraman and Power Rangers action figures.
When i was young, I played with dolls, I loved playing dolls with my cousin, but my family called me a sissy because I was a boy who liked dolls, it really hurt me emotionally, I also got called a sissy because I’m a sensitive person, and when I’d get upset and cousin defended me, I also got called a sissy for being defended by a girl
that's really stupid- the word sissy is honestly horrible
@@ghostprince9247 ikr
When I was growing up, I wondered why no one bats an eye when I (a female) liked boy things, ie kickball, hockey, and action/superhero cartoons, while boys get told off or feel embarrassed for liking girl things like Sailor Moon, dolls, and princesses.
My best guess is that it's a positive to be stronger and powerful. So girls doing boy things is seen as a good empowering thing. All that while degrading yourself and being weaker is seen as a negative. You know what's seen as weaker in a way? Feminine stuff. Because being girly has them not doing strong power things like wrestling and fighting and punching things and being a complete bad ass.
I don’t give a flying crap what anyone says I am a dude and I love sailor moon
Dude, I grew up watching Sailor Moon, Disney Princess movies, and Tokyo Mew Mew, and I'm still straight. YOU CAN'T BECOME GAY FROM WATCHING CARTOONS OR ANIME! And I still have fond memories of them just like I also have fond memories of Power Rangers, Ninja Turtles, Ultraman, Spider-Man, Jurassic Park, Pokemon, Digimon, Dragon Ball, The Lion King, and Godzilla.
As a kid i loved playing with dolls.
It gave me a joy.
I don’t see anything bad if boys are playing dolls or if girls are playing with cars.
I play with cars, it hasn't effected me at all , and I find nothing wrong with it
My sister grew up playing with both Barbies and Power Rangers and Ultraman action figures as well as dinosaur toys and Hot Wheels. Meanwhile, I grew up playing with toy animals and cars as well as Pokemon toys and Lego.
I'm female and strongly preferred "boy" toys as a kid. I remember a hell of a lot of backlash from adults but luckily the other kids didn't seem to care.
That’s actually pretty uncommon . Most of the time girls playing with “ boy toys “ is a
None issue tho with boys playing with “
Girls toy “ it’s always an issue growing up
@@razminfox1787 That actually a problem with society. Boys usually can't have anything that isn't what is expected. It's often seen in fashion too. Girl wears a hoodie or shorts,no one bats an eye. Boy wears a skirt or anything pink-
*"GAY!"*
(Not saying being gay is a bad thing,it's just annoying...)
@@Yourfavoritemess both go through a lot
My sister as a kid: Plays with Barbie dolls, but also plays with Power Rangers, Ultraman, and dinosaur toys as well as Hot Wheels.
Boys should really play with dolls they can express themselves with them. I wish the world didnt have ruleas surronding on which toy boys and girl play with!
Edit: This is too Dr Phil, Ive really learnt that im actually gay since i was 7 i didnt pass puberty to learn i liked boys, I used to think being gay was bad so i was homiphobic. Now i changed because now i know its ok and love is Love!
Toys, just like clothes, colours, makeup, jobs etc, are for everyone ☺️💕
Yes queen
@@lvergirl234 ❤️❤️❤️
yep
I would have liked my parents to see this video when I was a child.
I am from Mexico and here people are conservative and macho. Being a little boy I liked to play with dolls, But my mother would not let me, she thought it was a sin, I remember her telling me that if she saw me play with a doll she would burn my fingers, so that I would stop playing with dolls. CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?
Today I am a young gay boy happy with my femininity and I don't think it has to do with playing with dolls. Toys have no gender. Thanks Clawdeena for this. 🙏🥰
Gracias a dios mi mamá se separó de mi papá, ahora mi papá me compra muñecas pero muy hipócritamente 🤡🤡🤡🤡
@@eliabwithouttheamv3627 Bien por ti!
@@alexmunoz5883 grax
@@eliabwithouttheamv3627 hopefully he’s understanding now ❤️
people arent their hobbies and likes they have a whole soul inside them
Precisely!! Our interests don’t define us, they just make life exciting
5:41 *boys mostly choose a truck*
Mattel: Ok, here’s a hot wheels Barbie themed truck, have fun
As a trans guy who has gotten back into doll collecting after being more comfortable in myself. I believe dolls should be for anyone regardless of gender. Because if I was told this when I was younger I probably wouldn’t have stopped collecting and put away my dolls for years. But my dolls are now proudly out on my shelves which has made me really happy.
They (dolls) made me more sensitive, more down to earth, made me who i am as a person today!!! my childhood dolls and “girl” toys (although i dont have them with me bcz my mom threw them away) were one of the big reasons i love drawing, fashion, etc!!!! (English is not my first language sorry for any mispelings/errors)
I feel like this could be said with age as well. People judge you for still collecting dolls when you're an adult because they think it's "childish". They make you feel ashamed to like a "kids toy". But for me, they inspire me to create original characters from different doll franchises; Monster High, Barbie, you name it. So screw what other people think. If it makes you happy, do it! Dolls are for all ages!
Totally agree with this comment. I feel this is very true for Generation X and Millennial. I think Z and after may not have that issue because their parents went through it and don't want to put their kids through it.
Clawdeena is legit gonna cancel Dr Phil
I'm here for it aswell
Dr. Phil still has a show why ?
And we love that for her 😌
I'm on board
Well he surprisingly said something progressive.
I play with them so I think they can but some parents aren't as supportive as mine which is really kind of sad
Mr crazy dolly world you made a lil spelling mistake in there
@@callumjones5666 thx i be fixing that
My crazy doll world your welcome 😊
I let my kids be kids and do wtf they want as long as it isn't hurting themselves or someone else.
My 13 year old used to be obsessed with Sunset Shimmer from MLP's Equestria Girls. I literally bought him a cosplay costume from Etsy for Sunset Shimmer that he wore happily at BronyCon.
My 8 year old is very maternal in behavior with anything from dolls/action figures to plushes. He carries them like they're his babies and brings them to us for hugs and kisses lol It's adorable.
I don't use how they play or what they choose to wear to define them. That's an experience for them.
The best choice when picking out toys for your kid is to let them pick out what they want to play with.
My mom would legit go out of her way to ask for a hot wheel car and a Barbie when buying two happy meals for my sister and I (I also am a girl). Because she was annoyed that they were labeled as boy and girl toys.
Originally powder blue was for girls, pink for boys. Red for men, darker blue for women. Blue was seen as the weaker color because of how it faded over time. Red was the stronger color and since pink was a derivative of red it was assigned to boys.
As a straight guy that enjoys to be creative I played with toys that interested me most to make stories with being both Lego and monster high! And sometimes even combined the two
I think it is important to introduce kids from the youngest age to all kinds of toys (made for their age group). It's no surprise that a girl who only has "girl toys" at home would more likely play with dolls in kindergarten, same with boys and "boy toys". With all kinds of toys at home children will have the true CHOICE of what they want to play with, whether it is a girl who ends up liking soft animal plushies, a boy who loves dinosaur figurines, a girl interested in cars or a boy who can't imagine his life without dolls.
These videos are really showing me why I don’t connect with my dad as much. When I was younger I use to always play with my sisters doll. I would play with them and when they would leave I would ask them if they could atleast leave one that I could play with while they would come back. Everytime my dad saw me playing with one he would always tell me to put it down. I remember one time I was playing with my sister in the kitchen and he told me to get up and kick it. So I did, but now growing up i’m now seeing that, that is wrong. But now I understand why I don’t really like my dad. Yeah he might buy me dolls now, but that part of the past still stick with me. I can feel myself growing away from him. I’ve lived with him my whole life, going on 15 years and I STILL feel more connected with my moms side. She always understood me. Back to before the one doll that I really want today was one I had when I was a kid. I was playing with it in my room and I got up to go use the bathroom. I came back to my room and it wasn’t there. I asked my dad where it was and he said he threw it away.
My mom raised me, my brother and my sisters playing together equally with girl toys and boy toys. It's the best experience to put kids in the perspective of other genders. In fact my brother never turned out to be gay at all, (he is married and has 3 little kids) but with that experience we never had that stereotypical girl-boy siblings relationship, and I'm really proud of how my brother turned out to be, because he always respected us and saw us as equals.
I'm a guy and I play with dolls like River from rainbow high he looks exactly like me so I got him and more boys should not be embarrassed for liking girl toys💖💙
I am so happy i grew up in a time where toys weren't specifically gendered. Like we'd have a toddler isle, an isle with all the dolls and princess, an isle with crafts and legos, and then an isle with like superheroes but it never specifically said boy/girl it was usually just people around you saying which isle was for who
I remember when I was Eleven my little cousin would love to play with my LPS and dolls. It was a way for him and I to bond, as I wasn't interested in baseball or sports. But his dad would get incredibly mad every time he'd catch him with onel even if he was using one of his actions figures when playing. It really angered me at the time, and still does to this day, because it ruined the fun we had shared together for years.
Was always playing dolls with my cousin
She had Bratz and I was so jealous 😂
Never had a doll younger and my mom was always asking me to tone it down whenever I was too flamboyant.. so asking for a doll was never an option.
Im 29 now (almost 30) and during the pandemic, I started collecting dolls and it brings me so much joy 😊 feels like Im making up for what I didnt have as a child. 🙌
I love Bratz
My mom literary lets my brother play with my dolls, it's pretty common for him to style them with me or my sister. It's not even a bad thing a doll is just a toy.
Honestly I’d be surprised if she said no, because everyone can play with them
We should stop label things as girls- or boys toys altogether. It's just toys.
I’m a guy and I played with dolls and never wanted to play with cars etc. My mother always bought the dolls for me. I loved it. ☺️❤️
Okay but is nobody gonna talk about the new art style with a new gal with it? It’s so cute!
as a boy who played with dolls when I was younger and still has an obsession with looking online for first wave Abby Bominable for under 50 dollars, I hate this stereotype. I think the reason I liked dolls so much was bc one, the hair, and two, the stories I could make. I mean all I could do with cars was make someone die in a car crash and 5 year old me didn’t even know what dying was yet. I still have a bin of dolls in the guest room that I take out every so often just to feel the nostalgia, and I refuse to give them away bc you know what, yes I still have an emotional connection to my Venus McFlytrap doll and I’m not afriad to admit it
Im a straight cis male but i play with dolls, yes i get mocked sometimes and some people think it’s weird but I just don’t understand how toys can effect sexuality when sexuality isn’t a choice.
I’ve been watching this channel ever since I was 11 I’m now 22 this helped so much through my childhood and honestly I like dolls because I like fashion that dosent make me less of a man because I like those things I still collect dolls but I hide it from some people because they’ll think it’s weird but at the end of the day it’s what makes me happy so screw your bias social norms thanks so much clawdeena you inspire me until this day ♥️
I am going to tell my own story here. I was a tomboy growing up in the late 90s. I loved playing outside and not always looking pretty. I have scars from falling down and hurting my knees. I loved Pokémon and Dragon-Ball Z, and loved a lot of "boy toys". But I also loved playing with my Barbies and baby dolls. And Bratz became my life when I was 10 in 2001. But growing up with a Latin mom that wanted certain social norms for me, made me have an identity crisis from a small age. I was told not to like those boy things and only like girly things. I hated it, pink was not my favorite color blue was, I didn't love makeup and nail polish. And was always told to wear dresses. It made me feel as if I wasn't love for begin myself or accepted. That was the worst and I had issues with self-esteem when I was a teenager. I honestly feel if my mom had let me just play, and like whatever show or toy I wanted. I wouldn't have had such an identity crisis as a child. I can never tell anyone how to parent. But please stop placing your ideals on your kids. Let them come into their own, teach them to love and accept themselves. Our parents generation really has a problem with putting people into boxes and then getting mad when they don't want to stay there.
My dad had a dollhouse. He and his brother used to play with their mother's doll buggy as well. They tried to soup it up to be a race car, but the cat would have nothing to do with driving it...
I'm a gender noncomforming woman, I like to dabble with masculinity and presenting myself in a way most comfortable to me. My roommate and best friend is very traditionally masculine, "hick"-like. My passions are art, comic books, cartoons. His are cars, tanks, and fallout-style aesthetics.
However, we've talked at length about the toys we liked as children and how we both think toys shouldn't be gendered.
He's told me he liked playing with his female cousins because all of their toys came with the cool, big, colorful cars that made sounds and had lights. They had miniature kitchens (he loves minatures) and everything was more detailed and more colorful.
I've told him that I never liked playing with dolls, but I did love plush toys and I loved the powerpuff girls and sailor moon. I preferred "boy" toys because they were centered around superheroes and cool fire and ooze and all that stuff.
Gender normative play was still encouraged in my childhood (though not forced) and I still turned out to enjoy leaning more masculine with my femininity in tact. My friend was encouraged to play with gender normative toys but still LOVED to play with female-coded toys, (he also loved sailor moon and the pretty aesthetics) and he is still very much so a "manly"-type man.
I'm sharing this as like, an example to people that don't understand: toys literally have nothing to do with your sexuality or how you present yourself. They're just a way to express yourself when nothing else in your control as a child, and how to have FUN. Kids should be allowed to have fun.
I bought Bratz Boyz when I was 11. Was SO happy, FINALLY O could identify with a Bratz too. But my parents, sister, family all shamed med for it and laughed. So I ONLY took en out at night to look at en. I used to play with Barbies and dolls all the time, but always wanted a male fashion-doll that was not booring Ken
As a historian, color association and meaning have more to do with it than gender norms. Blue is often scene as connecting to the ocean and the sky, from this it is also associated with intellectual and fertility. This fertility is what lent it to a more feminine presentation. Pink on the other hand was seen as a baby color of red, which was associated with blood, war, and leadership-this led it towards a more masculine presentation as men at the time were allowed to take leadership roles and women traditionally were not. So pink would eventually become red for boys and blue would stay blue for girls and women.
This wasn't universal as nothing historically ever was but this trend in Europe is some of what laid the groundwork for our modern culture and association. The mass marketing is defiantly what led to a flip flop as pink was disconnected from red and seen as its own color.
Love your videos!
I was with my little cousins the other day (one girl, two boys). My girl cousin wanted to pay with a hairdressing toy set she got for her birthday. My boy cousins wanted to braid and brush my hair, (without me forcing them yk). I wanted to brush one of my boy cousins hair and put a hair clip and he said "that's for girls." I obviously told him no, its not. I told him it was no different from brushing his hair in the morning for school. He asked me again "so its ok to play with my sisters dolls if I want to? " and I said "yes, totally." And mind you, he LOVES cars and nerf guns. Just because a little boy likes to brush and braid his hair and put hairclips on, does not mean that he will not like "boys toys" as well, and vice versa.
I remember when I was little I was at the shops in the monster high aisle and a boy was there picking up a doll. I was confused, so I asked my mum "Why is the boy here?". I assumed that he was buying one for his sister or something. Now I realise that dolls are for everyone✨ and also that he was probably picking it for himself💕
the fact that this video buzzed up a childhood memory I had with one of my male cousins when I was little! When we were younger, my cousin and I used to play with our toys, I'd bring over mlp and Barbie, and he'd bring over WWE.
The thing about what happened next was actually wholesome, and it's that we played with them together just like we always did. Other memories like me and him playing spider-man and spider-girl saving the world, or how in Summer Camp, me and a couple of my female friends with one or two male friends joined in the playground and used our imagination to our advantage really says things about us all. And it's that, just things seem "girly" doesn't mean that they're less than the other that is more "masculine". Instead, these memories helped teach me empathy towards the male friends and cousins that I'm surrounded with and loved for a long time, and I bet even more so to them.
I don't know, I'm just giving my two cents.
But I'll leave off this question, why can't growing kids just like what they like in toys?
This breaks my heart, my 7 yr old son collects dolls and has long hair, that doesn't make him less of a boy 💔 thankfully we have filled him up with so much self love he laughs when people tell him he needs haircut or his dolls are for girls
I don't get why some people think boys shouldn't be able to play with dolls my cousin was never allowed to play with dolls it really sucked and it honestly always made me really mad. Everytime he'd come over we'd have to wait for his mom and stepdad to leave for him to be able to play with us
omg the artwork mukitoons did looks SO GOOD!
I just wanna say you inspire me so much and you are so talented Miss Clawdeena. We all love you so much :)
I live in michigan and i was shopping at Walmart. I saw a lil boy in the barbie isle picking out a doll for himself. I thought it was cute. Hey they can do it too. Equality for all!!!
Me and my cousin, who is a guy, played with my barbies and his Max steel dolls all the time, we created weird "telenovela-like" stories xd
He watched Barbie movies on his own, not because of me, but because he was interested on them. Still, he liked his "masculine" toys: hotwheels, dinosaurs and max steels, and he's straight. I played with Barbies, Monster High dolls, Baby dolls, Littlest Pet Shop and I wore dresses, damn, I liked so many girly things at the point that I am a Lesbian xd jajkskajsjsjsk.
Making your Barbie doll have an affair with a Max Steel doll while you watch The Princess and The Pauper or making the same old dinosaur fight with your cat won't make you neither gay nor straight. Another cousin's mom wont let her son play with girls toys and she made fun of my brother for playing with a Barbie (for which he almost cried for me to give it to him). It's not fair that you don't want to force your child to play with something while forcing them to play with something else, sToP dOiNg ThAT >:U
(sorry for shitty english, it's not my native language and I don't trust google translator that much)
im so happy and grateful that my mum let me play with dolls, my childhood wouldve been miserable without them
i don't really understand why there is such a big fuss about dolls for every kid. Let kids play, let them collect dolls, let them become adults and still have fun with or, as in your case, have a wellknown youtube-channel and earn money. When i was a kid, boys and girls played together, with Barbie dolls, wrestling dolls, dinosaurs, cars and everything and it was gorgeous. You do a very fine job in making videos and collecting the dolls for your personal fun and isn't it what we all want the most? A job where we could do what we love?
Me and my brother loves to play with dolls when we are a kid, he's not gay but he likes making story with my dolls!! Now it looks like I'm the only one stuck with my doll collecting habit 😂
Honestly, if a boy wants to play with dolls because he likes them, let him. He isn’t hurting anyone and it makes him happy. Idk why some people get upset that boys can like dolls
I agree, it’s a harmless, and in fact - helpful outlet for expression and creativity - I discuss some of the studies on how dolls can effect a boys development/behavior about halfway through the video!!
And people chose to paint their nursery room Yellow cause it's a "neutral" color. Just the let the kid do what makes it happy. My favorite color is blue and my baby blanket is blue and I'm a GIRL.
I had someone say "you're whats wrong with America today" to me because I let me toddler son wear clothes with pink or rainbows. Which is really stupid. Its not like I'm dressing my son in skirts. Just gender neutral clothing. And in colors that HE LIKES. Yeah, he loves rainbows, and most of the time when picking clothes he picks pink. I just get him all sorts of different options. Like toys wise, ive bought him cars, trucks, dinosaurs etc, as well as dolls and squishmallows. Separating stiff by gender for kids is so dumb. Especially when it comes to colors and toys.
Even I Am A Boy I Love Dolls Like Ever After High Monster High And Winx Club❣️❤️❣️❤️
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@@marybison3668 it's no problem! And thank you ❤️
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I love those shows and I love rainbow high and totally spies and bratz and trollz myscene and Polly pocket strawberry shortcake and once upon a zombie and lol omg and more and mlp and lps and fairy tale high and more
The way adults are constantly trying to sexualize pieces of plastic will always baffle me, especially when the kid they’re harassing is probably too young to know how that stuff works.
Your OC is so cute 🥰!!! Ekkk!! I love it!!
Any kid should have the freedom to enjoy any toy of their choice without judgment.
Oop this video is finna be spicy y'all better some tea and popcorn cuz Chile also STOP FORCING HETEROSEXUALY on children leave them alone they are gonna grow up and be who they wanna be so if a boy wants to play with a Barbie SO FUCKIND WHAT if a girl wants to play with a hot wheel car so FUCKING WHAT like why are people pissed off about this like TF I don't get it
Also another thing. Boys can like dolls and still be straight. It’s fucking PLASTIC, it doesn’t affect who they are
@@katherine_queen5294 Exactly like damn
What an insightful video. You are very well-spoken and offer a very well rounded view here. Growing up gay, I was lucky to have parents that didn’t mind me playing with my sisters’ Barbies. They weren’t thrilled of me asking for my own, however, Mom did fight her way through Sears in 83 when she got me a Cabbage Patch Kid for Christmas. One of my sisters always played with me, whether it was dolls or my action figures and cars. I just loved all toys and so did she. Yes, I happened to be gay however, the male cousins who occasionally played with Jem dolls are hetero and just lost interest after a while. What’s great about videos like this is that they are supporting what many parents are already doing so well - Just let your kids be who they want.
I'm a boy I've been playing with dolls for years now my parents don't care at all there happy for who I am and if I didn't play with my dolls I wouldn't have started sewing clothes for them and honestly dolls are so much fun brushing there hair dressing them up in different clothing etc there just fun dolls are for both not just girls in my opinion
Collecting dolls as a boy shows that we dont need to be targeted for what we play with. I think dolls are amazing and that doesnt choose my gender! Loads of people need to get a brain! This video is FAX
Oh now all of a sudden it wants to be a video when I have an big ass essay on it that is late as hell and I plan to turn it in tonight
READ PLEASE! I masterminded this topic!
Yes I was a doll boy growing up in the 90s/00s - sports, trucks, heroes - simply wasn't my thing. I loved dolls cuz they offered much more variety in playing + I do like fashion & fairytales Barbie world had to offer, and all the creativity behind it.
My parents were supportive of me - but they couldn't stop constant homophobic bullying from the outside world. Kindergarten teacher put me away from a dollhouse, a salesman once took me away from girl shelf in a toy store, a woman from neighborhood yelled at me for loving Barbie...
I always wondered - ok if I can't play with Barbie, but why I can't play with Ken??? Oh nooo, its from girl section, nooo wayyy! Well its toy companies problem that they never made a forever changing male-doll doing all different activities (architect, doctor, superhero, vet, knight etc (Action-man did nothing except being outside in action -_-)) + even if such doll was on the market, if I still liked princess stuff, I want a princess - what was wrong with it???
We sometimes lied that dolls they got me were actually for my older sister.... but growing up came in: constant toxic masculinity & degrading the weaker is a harsh world boys learn as young as 6.
School through all 12 yrs was a nightmare (physical violence too) - at the time you reach puberty, guys & girls are divided - but where to put a fem guy??? Where you will put a weak, unpopular, non-athletic boys??? Most common answer I got was 'don't act that way' (homophobia strikes in, its the exact same thing homophobes say to LGBT population 'do it behind your 4 walls only'). Not to mention that even teachers insult non-conforming guys. People see just 2 genders and 2 ideal roles - man & woman, anything thats not fitting in should be erased from the start.
So as you can see - it all starts when we were born. We aren't homophobic or judgmental by nature - we are taught that way. We are taught about 'norms' - for this to be fixed, children should see all toys as gender-neutral + to learn LGBT stuff from young age; To see 2 husbands on a poster - no, it won't make them gay, just as Ariel & Eric didn't make them straight. Guys should know if they pick up to became a tailor or hairstylist it won't make them any less valuable man.
Boys should play with dolls if they want to, there's nothing wrong with it. They are toys not drugs LOL. If he turns out to be fem & not crazy about cars, its not him that should be fixed, ITS SOCIETY THAT NEEDS FIXING! Stop fixing individuals to fit your stupid norms!!!
For conclusion, I will just leave one quote from Madonnas album:
"Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots cause it's okay to be a boy. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading cause you think being a girl is degrading"
Im so happy you touched on this subject. More people need to subscribe to you and plenty of parents need to learn from this message.
Can we just appreciate the beautiful art on screen. Who ever drew it is so insanely talented.
There’s absolutely no problem! If I ever have a son who wants a doll best believe I will be on the floor playing dolly with him.
This should not even be an argument. Its just a honk of plastic, nothing more nothing less.
Plastic that has an important meaning
As I was I child I was literally wanting barbie, my little ponys, makeup and yes iam gay I like how there pretty to look at change there clothes u can do anything with dolls and as till this day I rlly want a new doll cause all of my old dolls got thrown away
Is noone gonna talk about the beautiful art?!
“Support your child - no, not like that” Yikes Phil. Let the kid be.
My 6 year old gets to CHOOSE what toys they get and clothes they wear. From an early age I bought clothes from both sections as I felt the female aimed clothes didn’t cover them properly compared to the boys and were only in pinks, cats and leopard prints colours.
My child choose two big cars for their birthday, a fire engine and a bin truck and then some lol toys. I let them have what ever they are into.
11:42 anyone else accidentally read as "this or thot" lmao?
also as someone who loves clowns & paints and is told over & over that everyone hates/is scared of, to all the little boys who like dolls just keep liking dolls the dolls will make you way happier then fake friends
Guess haters had their notifications on..
My BEST FRIEND growing up was a boy. Our favorite thing to do was play with my barbies. I didn't think much of it all those years as a child, I guess I did see it as *different* that he was a boy but would play barbies with me. Those are the best memories of my life. Yes, he did discover that he was gay years later, but I'm so glad we got to make those memories. Toys help kids discover who they are! They should be a safe outlet
Dolls aren’t for girls only I think that they made them for children to play with them and use their creativity. I have loved dolls and monster trucks ever since my 2nd birthday but honestly let’s be real I feel bad that some moms don’t let their son’s play with them. P.S. love the videos you make my day 😁😁
When I was a little girl I loved playing with monster trucks but my friends forced me to play with dolls but some of my friends didn’t mind it but I think you shouldn’t judge anyone if they play with doll or cars but now I like playing with both kind of toys.
PERIOD.
There are no “boy” and “girl” toys. Toys are for anyone if a boy wants to play with doll good for them, if a girl wants to play with a car good for them. Why do people care so much about what kind of toys kids play with if they’re having fun enjoying themselves. (and not hurting anyone)
I think toys are toys 🧸, colors are colors 💖🧡💛💚💙💜, Love is love 🏳️🌈👩❤️💋👩👨❤️💋👨, representations matter, BLM ✊🏿 ✊🏾 ✊🏽, and equality and equity is still needed
The slow fade on the avatar face with so much movement and pink bursts were super distracting but i loved this video so much, i love the deep dives into these topics!
The Animationnn!! Amazing 💖
Thank you!!! Mukitoonz KILLED it on the art!!
fun fact : back in the old days pink was actually considered a boy color be cause it was strong while blue was for girls because it was delicate
My little man is two years old, he's got three bratz dolls and plays with my LOL BIG B.B 🥺🥰🥰🥰😍😍😍
Cute
Clawdeena cartoon ver is so so cute its like rainbow high monster bratz
Dolls are for everyone!
Forcing a boy to play with a doll when he wants to play with cars is like forcing a boy to play with cars when he wants to play with dolls...
Brilliant detailed video!
You are probably the same kind of person who thinks young adults still using bounce houses is okay.,.
A video on my birthday!? Thank you so much!!! That’s the best!!!
Happy birthday! I hope you have a lovely day!
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Happy Birthday!
This even goes for gaming. People think that gaming should be for boys but gaming with girls are "unlady like" for people. Its a passion that girls can game. Some people need to understand that girls can game too.
I honestly say yes if girls can play with boys toys then boys should play with girls toys. If it makes them happy u should let them play with it.
I love how you always keeps us updated on what happens. But mostly the way you do it, like how you upgraded your self animation into a literal animation, it’s shows you really care. I love it❤️