Shocking Science: Boys Like Boy Stuff And Girls Like Girl Stuff

A bunch of feminists are about to lose their minds about how SEXIST science is… because GUESS WHAT?

KIDS ARE BIOLOGICALLY DRAWN TO TOYS AIMED AT THEIR OWN GENDER.

The horror!!!

And here we were… thinking gender was nothing but a misogynistic construct! (not really)

According to this:

Boys and girls are driven by biology to play with toys that are traditionally aimed at their own gender, according to a new study.

The research found that an innate drive pushes boys to prefer trucks and cars and aggressive toys such as guns or toy soldiers.

A similar inbuilt instinct may be the reason why girls have always liked to play with dolls, cosmetics or toys based on domestic life, it said.

Girls LIKE to play with dolls?

This science is obviously sexist.

But the impact of feminism on parents, advertising and media may be a reason why girls have been less keen on dolls, make-up and kitchen toys in recent years, according to the research paper.

Girls are more likely than boys to be influenced as they grow up by parents, the adults and children around them, and what they read and see on television, it said, while boys stick to boys’ toys.

The study produced by a team led by psychologists from City, University of London, was based on evidence collected by different researchers across the Western world over decades, with some dating back to the 1930s.

It said: ‘Despite methodological variation in the choice and number of toys offered, context of testing, and age of child, the consistency in finding sex differences in children’s preferences for toys typed to their own gender indicates the strength of this phenomenon and the likelihood that it has a biological origin.’

The paper added that there were robust differences between the toy choices of girls and boys, and that this was so across decades and in different experiments.

This, the study said, ‘indicates an innate influence on this behavior.’

WHAT?! Girls are more likely to be influenced by their parents?! FEMINISTS SHOULD RIOT IN THE STREETS! SEXIST SCIENCE OMG!

Some attempts to study children found that boys tended to play aggressively even if they were given traditional girls’ toys.

‘Other toys, not necessarily male-typed, can afford aggressive play,’ the study said.

In 1980, it said, one set of psychologists ‘noted in their observation that boys played with a toy food mixer as if it were a machine gun.’

Proof that men are EVIL! Maybe the feminists will like the study after all?

This makes me think of one of my favorite pictures of all time:

“To avoid perpetuating gender stereotypes, I gave my daughter a mix of dolls and toy cars to play with. This is what happened.”

HAHAHAHA!

Now… before everyone starts yelling at me that this is FAKE and their daughter LOVES DUMP TRUCKS… the study says kids are more DRAWN to toys aimed at their gender… not that they ONLY like gendered toys. So simmer on down, bubba.