yes, expectations of toddlers & kids of the two sexes are different - and not just those of which people are conscious; so it isn't just "them" as discriminate, it's all too easily "us", too, sometimes in ways that sneak up quietly on us.
claire went head over heels into a pink phase, despite none of her close adults evincing the slightest trace of encouragement for such. she did eventually grow out of it - but this took a couple of years...
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2005-11-30 01:32 am (UTC)claire went head over heels into a pink phase, despite none of her close adults evincing the slightest trace of encouragement for such.
she did eventually grow out of it - but this took a couple of years...