At Target this lady told her son he couldn’t have a Wonder Woman doll because “that’s for girls” and then bought her daughter the same one. It got me thinking about how often I see people bar young boys from appreciating girls/women as protagonists and heroes, and my own experience with it as a kid.
This.
All of this.
I still see this in the childcare profession. From EDUCATORS!
For real, just this year, a professional documentation entitled “Boys will be Boys”
I just…. Grrrr.