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On the other hand, things like girls liking dolls may indeed be due to nature (never mind that boys like action figures which are basically dolls).

And, it has nothing to do with whether they were giving dolls or cars as toddlers.

On the other hand, the number of tween-age boys into American Girl dolls has to low.

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Is he afraid of something, have his dolls act it out and one of them is afraid of the same thing, for example.

If the child is too young to express a preference, you don't need to choose between (eg) dolls or trucks - baby toys need to be primarily something that can't hurt the baby.

Software has become like Matryoshka dolls - layer after layer of packaging.

It would surely sell though, people are actually buying expensive dolls, I'm sure some of them would be tempted by a hugdroid.

I'm sure if you marketed trucks to girls long enough and dolls to boys long enough, they would prefer the opposite just fine.

If hospitals were run like startups, ER patients would be treated by college dropouts who taught themselves surgery by watching videos of mom's stitching their kid's dolls together.

As a child I was given dolls because I was a girl.

And this is not as irrelevant a choice as whether to play with dolls or lego: Programming is a skill which allows for social upwards mobility like nothing else.

Forcing adults who would automatically think "trucks for boys, dolls for girls" to think about their choices is, in itself, valuable.

Second, a friend of mine calls the hypothetical owners of robot sex dolls, "Robosexuals".

I am not going to agree that "girls like dolls and boys like trucks" without some reliable evidence.

Boys love playing with cars; girls do like them a bit too, but it's pretty clear they prefer simulating social interactions, specially dolls talking." Bullshit.