tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23363296.post114555219317152811..comments2023-11-02T09:08:09.242-07:00Comments on <i>Daddy Dialectic</i>: Easter Sunday in San FranciscoJeremy Adam Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11733669114207985920noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23363296.post-1145933920453224012006-04-24T19:58:00.000-07:002006-04-24T19:58:00.000-07:00Yet the fact your son and Shelley's son wanted to ...Yet the fact your son and Shelley's son wanted to play with trucks="Boys sure like trucks" which leads to boys and girls are different. <BR/><BR/>I objected. <BR/><BR/>Boys, on average, may be different from girls, on average (In fact, I think that likely though not even due majorly to biology rather than culture) but I certainly liked trucks as much as either of my brothers and more than my sister. That did not make me a boy.<BR/><BR/>There is a glitch in Shelley's logic, and apparently yours, here. I also liked my younger brother's space shuttle model (and plane and train models) better than he did. My sister never even noticed them. I think that had to do with me liking machinery -- as in trucks, excavators, dozers, etc -- and nothing to do with my gender.<BR/><BR/>This helped me to a lucrative career as I am now a civil engineer working in construction oversite and management.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23363296.post-1145644265589651242006-04-21T11:31:00.000-07:002006-04-21T11:31:00.000-07:00Personally, my favorite toys -- still my favorite ...Personally, my favorite toys -- still my favorite toys, actually -- are spaceships and robots. After they felt played out, I used to especially love wrecking them and creating elaborate scenes of post-apocalyptic destruction in my backyard. After rain, I'd come out to see robot arms half-protruding from the mud, rockets buried in wet sand.<BR/><BR/>This has nothing to do with gender. Just what came to mind.Jeremy Adam Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11733669114207985920noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23363296.post-1145635843192257952006-04-21T09:10:00.000-07:002006-04-21T09:10:00.000-07:00My favorite toys were my large collection of match...My favorite toys were my large collection of matchbox cars. My sister preferred her dolls. I was no less a girl than and no less a woman now.<BR/><BR/>I certainly am a better wife and mother as she is divorced twice and her exes have custody.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com