>>94100348Yes. I think the kid saw something popular and colorful and wanted in on that. Young kids don't understand gender specific barriers as well. Just like my nephew with the my little pony toy, he just saw something brightly colored and popular, he wanted to understand it by getting closer to it, interacting with it.
The problem comes when they try to express these things and then the adults in their lives don't know how to react to that. A lot of times you get them overreacting which leads to these things becoming even more interesting to the kid because they're taboo. But other times the parents want to let the kid explore, but they overdo the positive reinforcement for thinking outside societal gender norms and it leads to little boys developing and infatuation with the feminine, or vice versa. So the adults are kind of fucked either way but above everything else you've got to love and support your kids and hope they understand the equally important but different roles the masculine and feminine play in society.
My sister did the right thing with my nephew, she let him have the my little pony and it went into the toy box with all his other stuff (lots of Pacific Rim figures, the kid generally has good taste). Eventually my nephew stopped caring about the pony once the thrill of something new wore off and he moved on to other, more traditionally masculine toys/games (army guys, superheroes, legos and Minecraft)
