I Play With Dolls
On the color-coded toy aisles of our childhoods and our now
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10 min readMar 30, 2020
My mid-life crisis came at Christmas vacation, when my younger daughter said I play with dolls.
We had been talking about gendered words. My younger daughter studies languages. Someone had recently referred to her as a “female,” and when an uncle asked what was wrong with that, I thought how many times I had…
