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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zelda Themelin" data-source="post: 5792885" data-attributes="member: 167">I don't have children, but my close friends have. There is one boy and 3 girls. They have bit different personalities but as age under 5 they don't really show some girl/boy-like qualities and kinda prefer similar toys. Ok, one girl had mostly girly stuff, but when I bought here some legos (Ninjago) she was all over them.I think parents sometimes brainwash their children into sexual roles way too young by thinking there are girl toys/boy toys. Yes, there are, but important difference comes at later age. Pre-teen. Also children tend to choose their rolemodel from among sisters. That's why my two aunts who were only girls in family of 4 boys have hobbies and professsion mirroring the brothers. Another used to be elecronical engineer and became later political journalist. Another is building houses. And they still got married, had children and are quite feminine.Hobbies, games, professions don't really gender roles. You do what you learn. And sometimes you might want to do something different. Men's and womens professions were born because of historical burdens and becouse most women aren't so keen to fight over their pay-check or rights. And waste time with petty social competitions with other females. And this has everything to do with those prival drives.Differences between genders do exist but they do become more apperant when children come into equations, it causes changes that do affect personality and in some cases radically. It even effects males, though it's mentioned less.Don't forget that we are not really selling gender-roles. We are selling culture. Men and woman are different, but not all of them are so different. There is lot of variation what comes to personalities as well, and some males and females are freaky or overdoing it. And uh Celtavian, you'd be surprised how much mothers I know love to leave their children to daycare and go wrong. They called period hanging too much close to kid "going crazy if I have to take more of it".  My own mother was however that kinda "over-motherly" types. And unhappy with her lot.There is reason why freedom of choice and education makes less kids born. And women get at it 30+ and only have single child. This is usual in my country. There is this movie Idiocracy. Maybe we educated people should think little less selflisly have some babies for our kind's sake.But unfortunaly normal working family can't always "afford" child. Chidren are expensive. It's kinda opposite of those countries where they are ticket of bringing food to the table.I could go on details but it might be too political for en-world.So we can apperantly for most part ignore those primal drives. Playing home is not for everyone. I don't think it was even in oldie times.</blockquote>

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