[Lizavetta]

"Stevie" isn't like other 5-year-old boys. While his peers are into karate and video games, Stevie tiptoes around the house like a ballerina and plays with Barbie dolls. His favorite colors are pink and red.

What a bunch of BS. All my boys played with Barbie dolls when they were that age, cross-dressed with our 3 hefty-bags of costumes, and one of them preferred the color pink when he had his handprint done on a clay plaque. SO ******* WHAT? To say this leads to gayness is insane. After they put on the dresses, wigs, tutus, and heels, they'd inevitably wind up in a pile of wrestling boys, doing what boys do.

And after dressing and undressing their Barbies a thousand times, they finally cut their hair off, bent their legs to a 90 degree angle from the body, and turned them into 'guns'. End of Barbies.

[FormerLib]

Glad to hear that they worked it all out. Does their dad play an integral part of their lives (since you inserted them into the discussion, let's take a look).

[flyervet]

I'm sure your sons would have loved being told they were playing in the "wrong" way.

I have a cousin who is about ten years younger than I. He was a cerebral little boy, he liked to read books, draw and dance. My aunt and uncle kept buying him dump trucks and other "manly" toys to play with. He would just toss them aside, so my uncle would try to force him to play with the toys. I don't have to tell you how successful that was. I used to get in trouble for letting him read my schoolbooks and my girl cousins would get yelled at for encouraging him to dance. At any rate, today he's a heterosexual architect who supports the ballet. He's got a pretty good life going, but his parents aren't really a part of it. They did a good job of alienating him right from the start.