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angelikaJ -> RE: Here's a different type of question. (For the ladies.) (12/29/2013 1:48:17 PM)
Dolls are not the sole provenance of girls. What do boy children think when they play with GI Joes?

DesFIP -> RE: Here's a different type of question. (For the ladies.) (12/29/2013 3:39:52 PM)
My daughter read all the American Girl doll books. I would have gotten her one but she never found a connection to any of them. She just loved reading about all of them. Whichever book she read at the time was her favorite. But she wasn't a doll person except for toy horses. Breyer horses because they're realistic. She was horse mad from age 4 when she had her first pony ride. She doesn't show any more and hasn't ridden in a while. But real horses always beat out the pretend ones.

popeye1250 -> RE: Here's a different type of question. (For the ladies.) (12/29/2013 5:30:37 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: angelikaJ Dolls are not the sole provenance of girls. What do boy children think when they play with GI Joes? "Take that you fucking.....(edited for ethnic slur)

windchymes -> RE: Here's a different type of question. (For the ladies.) (12/29/2013 7:09:12 PM)
LOL... I don't remember what I thought, but my friend and I would dress them in different outfits, on, off, on, off for hours on end. We talked to each other while doing it, but not about the dolls themselves, more about the clothes. She had a whole grocery sack full of clothes that her mom and grandma had made. I was so jealous, lol. Her brother had GI Joe, and he was usually making machine gun and exploding land mine noises while dropping Joe off the upper bunk.

tj444 -> RE: Here's a different type of question. (For the ladies.) (12/29/2013 7:24:41 PM)
I did get a few dolls.. but heck, once you cut their hair off what's left to do with them? I had more fun playing in the sand pile with my little brothers big yellow dump truck..

popeye1250 -> RE: Here's a different type of question. (For the ladies.) (12/29/2013 10:25:08 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: windchymes LOL... I don't remember what I thought, but my friend and I would dress them in different outfits, on, off, on, off for hours on end. We talked to each other while doing it, but not about the dolls themselves, more about the clothes. She had a whole grocery sack full of clothes that her mom and grandma had made. I was so jealous, lol. Her brother had GI Joe, and he was usually making machine gun and exploding land mine noises while dropping Joe off the upper bunk. Wind, her mom and grandma made a whole sack of clothes for dolls? Wow, that must have been some work! That intrigues me that some people can spend hours doing something like that and think nothing of it. Perhaps it was a way of mother and daughter doing something and getting to have fun talking and spending time with them. We didn't have G.I. Joe's when I was in school. by the time those came out I (think) I was in high school walking down the hallways holding a big geography book in front of my crotch to hide the painfully throbbing boner in my pants from looking at all the nice looking girls walking past. Damn! I could get a *raaaging* boner in under 10 seconds when I was 16. Standing or sitting! When i was young,......when I was young,.....my father was a sailor then........when I was young. lol Hey,...that reminds me of a song!

TNDommeK -> RE: Here's a different type of question. (For the ladies.) (12/30/2013 2:03:52 AM)
I loved playing with dolls growing up!!! I had everything Barbie! Heck, I even had boy toys! (G.I. Joes, Thundercats, etc)

PeonForHer -> RE: Here's a different type of question. (For the ladies.) (12/30/2013 3:48:39 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: angelikaJ Dolls are not the sole provenance of girls. What do boy children think when they play with GI Joes? In the UK boys coveted the equivalent of 'GI Joe' in the form of 'Action Man'. I wanted one myself until the very second I first heard Action Man being referred to as a 'doll'. Just like that, the desire to have one was gone. Some years later I read that the makers of Action Man were at great pains never to refer to Action Man as a doll. They knew full well what cataclysmic result that would have on their marketing strategy.

MasterCaneman -> RE: Here's a different type of question. (For the ladies.) (12/30/2013 7:41:26 AM)
I remember a cartoon character saying 'It was an ACTION FIGURE, dammit!" once in a scene. I had a GI Joe (the big one) when I was like seven or eight, and yeah, in my warped and bloodthirsty little mind he was a-killing them damn furriners too. The only thing was, my dad (WWII Navy vet), took offense at his "hippie" beard and shaved him one day.

MercTech -> RE: Here's a different type of question. (For the ladies.) (12/30/2013 9:35:27 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: angelikaJ Dolls are not the sole provenance of girls. What do boy children think when they play with GI Joes? Hmmm, remembering something a 5th grader told me, "Real boys don't play with dolls, they do combat scenarios with action figures." And yes, his dad was a marine.

popeye1250 -> RE: Here's a different type of question. (For the ladies.) (12/30/2013 11:17:20 AM)
I wonder which year those G.I. Joe d,....."action figures" came out?

PeonForHer -> RE: Here's a different type of question. (For the ladies.) (12/30/2013 11:30:11 AM)
FR There's an excellent story going around (I haven't checked its veracity - one can only hope it's true) that the makers of Action Man, Palitoy, mixed up the voice boxes of a batch of Action Men with those of a batch of their most popular girls' doll. Picture Christmas Morning and the feverish opening of presents by youngsters: little girls bursting into tears when they pull their dolls' cord and it barks out 'STOP OR I FIRE', while the boys throw away their Action Men in disgust when they start squeaking 'Mummy, I've wet my knickers'. Heh.

popeye1250 -> RE: Here's a different type of question. (For the ladies.) (12/30/2013 12:42:55 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: PeonForHer FR There's an excellent story going around (I haven't checked its veracity - one can only hope it's true) that the makers of Action Man, Palitoy, mixed up the voice boxes of a batch of Action Men with those of a batch of their most popular girls' doll. Picture Christmas Morning and the feverish opening of presents by youngsters: little girls bursting into tears when they pull their dolls' cord and it barks out 'STOP OR I FIRE', while the boys throw away their Action Men in disgust when they start squeaking 'Mummy, I've wet my knickers'. Heh. LOL, Peon, too fuckin' funny!! "TAKE YOUR PANTS OFF LITTLE GIRL!"

playfulotter -> RE: Here's a different type of question. (For the ladies.) (12/30/2013 6:14:11 PM)
I was a bit of a "Tom Boy" as a child and did love Troll Dolls of different sizes....but not Barbies or other dolls..or I don't recall if I did...we had a garage sale once with a really tall doll called Chatty Kathy who talked up for sale and they said it was mine but I was 5 or 6 and didn't play with it or like it....wow! it is funny the things we remember from so long ago!

littlewonder -> RE: Here's a different type of question. (For the ladies.) (12/30/2013 7:26:52 PM)
I have a sister who is 15 years older than me and I remember she used to make me Barbie clothes all the time. I think my favorite piece was a real fur coat. It was so cute. I would dress Barbie in her finest dresses of chiffon and sparkles that sister made for me, put her in a pair of heels, some sparkly jewelry and Barbie was set to go out on the town with Ken in her pink Cadillac.

ShaharThorne -> RE: Here's a different type of question. (For the ladies.) (12/31/2013 3:53:24 AM)
Sorry, but my interests in growing up were horses, reading and taking care of my baby brother. Learned to cook early, worked on a ranch...that was what I did. One aunt insisted on Barbies and I kept them on a shelf...I rather play with the calves and catching horned toads.

HipPoindexter -> RE: Here's a different type of question. (For the ladies.) (12/31/2013 6:55:30 AM)
when i was a little boy i played with barbie dolls. it was a great way to hang out with girls, who smelled way better than the dudes on my pee wee football and soccer teams.

sexyred1 -> RE: Here's a different type of question. (For the ladies.) (12/31/2013 6:00:08 PM)
I was crazy for fashion and had every Barbie, an awesome wardrobe and dream house. My favorite ever, was a genie outfit. Her little gold shoes curled up at the ends! My only issue was there was no Redheaded Barbie, only Midge and she was not as glam.

PeonForHer -> RE: Here's a different type of question. (For the ladies.) (12/31/2013 6:14:50 PM)
FR Ooh, ooh: another thing I heard about Barbie: they gave her a bigger jaw recently. It was felt that she looked too soft and submissive for little girls of today. And yet another thing: they once made a 'Baywatch Barbie' which flew off the shelves and into the feverish hands of somewhat worrying men. I don't know if they did anything about Ken's face or physique - but nobody was ever bothered about Ken anyway. Did Ken ever have nipples? Who knows? And indeed, who cares?

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