Girls play with dolls, boys play with action figures?

[Solidus]

If you can dress it up, it's a doll. Simple .

 

[King Darkness]

Damn, I got a shat load of dolls!

 

[creecher]

Damn, I got two shat loads of articulated dolls.

 

[SnakeDoctor]

Gender stereotypes FTW!

Stereotypes are often stereotypical for a reason. There are always exceptions, and there's not a thing wrong with that. But, neither of my kids seem to be an exception.

SnakeDoc

 

[Annika]

Stereotypes are often stereotypical for a reason. There are always exceptions, and there's not a thing wrong with that. But, neither of my kids seem to be an exception.

SnakeDoc

All I can say is that I'm glad that, when I was five, my Dad actually took the time to expose me to different interests and discovered that I was a sucker for dinosaurs, spiders, snakes, lizards, volcanoes, ice ages, and so on. If people had just blindly handed me Barbies my entire childhood, I'm sure I would have played with them and enjoyed it well enough, but I suspect I would have been a less well-rounded person as a result. As it was, I was able to enjoy gory raptor-related carnage and pretty My Little Ponies at the same time.

Not saying you haven't done that, just that it can be really hard to tell the difference between a little girl who really wants to play house and one who does so because all she ever gets for her birthday are little pots and pans.

 

[jediknight120]

I call them action figures, but my wife and sisters call them dolls lol. Doesn't really bother me either way.

 

[dcflake]

Pretty interesting stuff but does it matter what we call them?

As long as you enjoy collecting it shouldn't matter if they're 'dolls' or not. I don't mind people, especially people aren't into collecting, calling them dolls.

 

[wookster]

I tend to call them figures or dolls, my wife and kids call them dolls.
Comme ci comme ça!