boy toys
[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.