Well, I don't think there's a sex-linked gene for trucks that goes with Y-chromosomes s:) I don't think it's even explicitly teaching boys "trucks good, dolls bad."
I do think, however, [WARNING: THIS IS A GENERALIZATION, IT IS NOT DIRECTED AT ANYONE IN PARTICULAR!] that boys are encouraged to figure out how things work, and how to take things apart and put them together again -- more so than girls. Which is a subtle way of giving boys an appreciation for how something works. A girl (like me) might just look at it and say, "OK, well, it's a truck, it's pushing dirt around, big deal" -- looking more at what it does rather than how it works.
Then again, maybe some people just like dirt and trucks, and some people like something smaller and more intricate like computers s:) I never really cared much about how trucks worked, even though I really liked playing with sand. But when I got a little older and grasped what electronics were, or even basic gears (like a cuckoo clock), I was fascinated and wanted to know everything about how they worked.
So I don't really think trucks are a boy thing. I think it's more a matter of how much a child has an aptitude for, or is taught to appreciate, form and/or function.
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I do think, however, [WARNING: THIS IS A GENERALIZATION, IT IS NOT DIRECTED AT ANYONE IN PARTICULAR!] that boys are encouraged to figure out how things work, and how to take things apart and put them together again -- more so than girls. Which is a subtle way of giving boys an appreciation for how something works. A girl (like me) might just look at it and say, "OK, well, it's a truck, it's pushing dirt around, big deal" -- looking more at what it does rather than how it works.
Then again, maybe some people just like dirt and trucks, and some people like something smaller and more intricate like computers s:) I never really cared much about how trucks worked, even though I really liked playing with sand. But when I got a little older and grasped what electronics were, or even basic gears (like a cuckoo clock), I was fascinated and wanted to know everything about how they worked.
So I don't really think trucks are a boy thing. I think it's more a matter of how much a child has an aptitude for, or is taught to appreciate, form and/or function.