The Mask You Live In

Growing up there was always different stereotypes in our society that associated the color pink with girls and blue with boys. Usually when you think of a child playing with a doll you would imagine a girl holding it. Same idea with a boy holding a toy truck. Every child is unique; a child's gender shouldn't give you the assumption on how you think they should express themselves. In the end, you want your child to be whatever makes them happy, and it should make you happy as well. As far back as I can remember every toy I had was pink and something with sparkles. No one ever told me which toys were appropriate and inappropriate for my gender. Always receiving girly toy's seemed normal so from there on out I knew girls play with these toys and boys play with those toys. Growing up with an older brother, most of the time I just played with whatever he was playing with. I had my own toys as well. I was into Polly pocket and bratz doll.