Before WWI, it was the norm in western culture to give little boys
dolls to play with, the same sort of dolls which their sisters played
with. Indeed, the Victorian custom was to dress little boys in dresses
until they were 5 or 6 years old.
With the first World War, the idea changed that now
WAll Street Journal, June 13, 2000
Teaching Those Little Protosexists How to Behave
By FRED BARNES
A few years ago, a teacher in a fourth-grade class in Maryland asked her
students to imagine themselves as advice columnists for the local
newspaper.
Their task was to answer a distraught mother
