[calex59]

We were playing something and pretending we were “Cat Women from Outer Space”.

Cat women for outer space, I love it! I grew up in the 50s(graduated HS in 1959 at 17)and we used to play stuff like that all the time except of course we were boys(we did let our sisters play too, but only if they were the heroins who needed saving). The 1950s and 60s were science fiction heaven, you could imagine anything then before science ruined it:).

[Caramelgal]

we did let our sisters play too, but only if they were the heroins who needed saving)

That’s funny! Back in my day, in the late sixties in my neighborhood, there were many more boys than girls. Some of us girls wanted to play, not with baby dolls and Babies, but to play war with the boys with cool stuff like toy guns because that was a lot more fun.

The boys would play WWII and only let us girls play if we agreed to be nurses treating the wounded behind enemy lines. But that was no fun.

We would agree to get into the game by “pretending” to be mere nurses then we’d devise our strategy as being secret double-double agents. We’d take the guns from the wounded and ambush the Nazis with our inside information and save the Americans!

We were wily and devious and imaginative. The boys cried foul and said we cheated and wouldn’t let us girls play any more.

This is a true story and I actually remember telling one boy, “We didn’t cheat: All’s fair in love and war”.

Alas, we girls were kicked out anyway so instead we stole the boys GI Joes and paired them up with our more intellectually superior Barbies. Barbie would devise the espionage plots and GI Joe was the muscle to carry out our plans.