This is mostly about toys, but I like the parenting and gender questions it raises a lot. kleinbl00, thenewgreen, (maybe mk? --wish I could tag fuffle...) anyone else who has young children of either sex -- what sort of toys do they play with? Are these things you think about consciously when buying them new things or choosing which books they're exposed to?
For those of you with daughters, was there a deliberate choice to maybe give them access to things like legos or building blocks that are traditionally "male" but which in actuality shouldn't be attached to either gender? For those of you with sons, what's the corollary? There's a much larger stigma for male children who play with dolls etc. than for girls who play with toy soldiers or a football or something.
I like to think that if I ever have a daughter, I will give her the option of playing with toys associated with both genders -- but in thinking about that I've exposed my own bias ... I'm not sure I would make the same deliberate steps to expose a son to traditionally-female toys. I have a lot to think about.