Hmmm...but peachtess is right, too. Boy stuff starts in with trucks pretty early, right along with "snips and snails and puppy dog tails," while girls get..."sugar and spice and" WTF is that all about?
But I think that does also relate to the point I was trying to make: IN GENERAL, I think girls are taught to look for an object's function and how it relates to them, while boys are taught to look at form -- how and why something works, aka the "cool!" factor.
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Date: 2005-05-26 02:20 pm (UTC)But I think that does also relate to the point I was trying to make: IN GENERAL, I think girls are taught to look for an object's function and how it relates to them, while boys are taught to look at form -- how and why something works, aka the "cool!" factor.