(Or the preference is due to something unique to the baby and/or the preferred toy. Maybe it’s got a good texture for gumming on, or it makes a noise the baby likes. The alignment with sociocultural gendered behavior is simply coincidental.)

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Coming back to this: This absolutely applies to cis people as well. A kid hears an adult say ”Women/girls are naturally better at caring for children and babies” the unsaid message is ”Men/boys are not good — maybe, even, they SHOULDN’T be good — at caring for children and babies.”

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It made me think of things like Neverending Story or Dark Crystal where it's a little scary, there's some darker topics but everything is also very whimsical and beautiful in a way that will awaken a kid's creativity. Dark Crystal had kid!me learning who Brian Froud was so I could look at his art.

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breaking my solemn vow to never stream just because i felt like it idk doing some sort of ufo 50 gaming get in here or don't www.twitch.tv/zachary20xx

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being assigned male at birth but perceived as “not a boy” means being a “failure” at maleness, and being an “acceptable“ target for harassment and bullying — the goal of which is to shame a person into preferred behavior, or drive them away from social connection.

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