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Who says girls can't have toys?

Friday, September 22, 2006

I'm a person who gets slightly peeved when someone (usually a guy) comments that "girls can't drive". Well, of course he usually says it quite matter-of-factly, which makes it even more annoying. I don't which is worse, to have some guy sniggering at you for not knowing how to use your newly bought electronics like computers and such, or to have him look upon you patronisingly with the "just let me handle this" mentality.

May I remind you that the next time you open your big fat mouth and protest against a lady driver or take control of all the toys in her possession, please bear in mind that up to now, it is the boys who have made a mess competing with each other to see whose toy is bigger and better. If you take a trip down memory lane, the boys in Europe have no doubt created a big mess of a world with their mega guns and tanks, while those in America have had an even better playtime blowing up islands with the A bombs, not to mention mechanising humans with the C³I and computers.

And perhaps we don't know how the girls would have fared if they were to handle the toys instead, but at least we know the boys have had their failures, and does that mean the girls are definitely going to doom the earth just because the boys are nearly done destroying it? Maybe they just need to be given a chance to play with the toys for a change. And who knows, they might just make the world feel better. So who says girls can't have toys?

And you know what irritates me the most? The fact that I myself sometimes make remarks that some girls just can't handle toys. Why has society conditioned me to think in that way? I mean, some boys can't handle toys as well right? But why don't we make jokes out of that, at the expense of the boys who can't play with toys? Or of those who can play with toys for that matter?

And girls, don't let the boys patronise you or worse admit to their single conclusion about girls with conviction, like: "I'm a computer idiot" or "I can't drive." Because you can handle toys and much more if you, like the boys, have spent as much time on computers and cars as you have on shopping and clothes.

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