You got that right. We are all extraordinary. Which is why it was so frustrating back in the day to be shoved into these "women's roles" because parents, in those days, thought men and women should be one way.
I'm glad to hear that you got the toys you asked for--and at the same time very jealous! I asked for trucks, tonka toys, dinosaurs, space legos, etc. My parents didn't want me turning into a tomboy so at that young age I got dolls and the afore mentioned kitchen stuff and barbie dolls. To basically learn how to be a good housewife and mommy, pretty much.
I got my revenge though at the time. XD I never played with the dolls so they just sat in my bedroom, getting dusty. One day I chopped their hair off. Every one of 'em. My mom went nuts! hehehe. I used my Barbie and Skipper dolls to play characters from Star Trek (one was Kirk, one played Spock, one played dr. mcCoy and so on), acting out stories in my head. I made star trek uniforms for them, instead of playing with them in the "traditional" way like some of the other girls.
However, things did change at home for the better--after my parents divorced, and my dad was long out of the house (when i was a pre-teen) I was in fact able to get Star Wars toys, Masters of the universe, stuff I really wanted. I guess my mom also just gave in and bought that for me too because I kept asking for that stuff. But she lamented me for still being into toys as a pre-teen, not "growing up" and giving up playtime, not helping dinner get ready but wanting to play like the boys, being a "tom-boy" which was considered a terrible thing in those days. I never took joy in helping around the house. It felt like drudgery, not fun to be keeping house. If my parents had stayed married, I never would have gotten had those "boy" toys, I would have had to be stuck in the house cleaning. My dad was ultra conservative and anti-woman's lib and at home, his word was law.
Thanks for posting the ad, though! This was really neat and brought back a bunch of memories. The language of that ad is jarring but in those days that normal, wasn't it. Things have come a long way.
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Date: 2015-05-04 10:01 pm (UTC)I'm glad to hear that you got the toys you asked for--and at the same time very jealous! I asked for trucks, tonka toys, dinosaurs, space legos, etc. My parents didn't want me turning into a tomboy so at that young age I got dolls and the afore mentioned kitchen stuff and barbie dolls. To basically learn how to be a good housewife and mommy, pretty much.
I got my revenge though at the time. XD I never played with the dolls so they just sat in my bedroom, getting dusty. One day I chopped their hair off. Every one of 'em. My mom went nuts! hehehe. I used my Barbie and Skipper dolls to play characters from Star Trek (one was Kirk, one played Spock, one played dr. mcCoy and so on), acting out stories in my head. I made star trek uniforms for them, instead of playing with them in the "traditional" way like some of the other girls.
However, things did change at home for the better--after my parents divorced, and my dad was long out of the house (when i was a pre-teen) I was in fact able to get Star Wars toys, Masters of the universe, stuff I really wanted. I guess my mom also just gave in and bought that for me too because I kept asking for that stuff. But she lamented me for still being into toys as a pre-teen, not "growing up" and giving up playtime, not helping dinner get ready but wanting to play like the boys, being a "tom-boy" which was considered a terrible thing in those days. I never took joy in helping around the house. It felt like drudgery, not fun to be keeping house. If my parents had stayed married, I never would have gotten had those "boy" toys, I would have had to be stuck in the house cleaning. My dad was ultra conservative and anti-woman's lib and at home, his word was law.
Thanks for posting the ad, though! This was really neat and brought back a bunch of memories. The language of that ad is jarring but in those days that normal, wasn't it. Things have come a long way.