I became an uncle just over 18 months ago. Little one has now grown to the point he runs and speaks words. It is very adorable and all that of course, but its also fascinating to see how very stereotypically he is developing.
One of his first words and concepts is "tractor". Now he doesnt quite fully grasp the concept, so a lot of things that are not tractors become "trakto", but hes learning. Hes also learned car, and anything with flashing lights on it is a "ba-bu"
It really started to get funny in the last few weeks, grandpa had shown him tractors on his phone earlier one day, and not only did he demand i pull up "trakto" on mine, he would grab my thumb and jab it into the screen if i wasnt quick enough pulling up tractor videos.
Long winded way of saying, having seen how a boy child of less than two will gravitate instantly to objects like tractors has made me hate the trooning of children even more on a personal level.
Years ago, an ex-girlfriend of mine was a Kindergarten assistant (she's a teacher now--and a good one). One thing they did was ask kids what they wanted to be when they grew up, do their best to write it out, and then draw a picture.
She was laughing because all of the kids, ever year, picked VERY stereotypical boy/girl things, even the ones with crazy hippy leftist parents.
Her absolute favorite was this one boy who wrote down "Worman" (that's W-O-R-M-A-N) and drew an elaborate (yet hard to tell what was going on) picture of a person with all this bulky clothing on.
The main teacher (big lefty) started talking to this kid, and was like, so, tell me about what it means to you to be a woman (WOMAN) when you grow up?
The kid looks at the main teacher like she is the stupidest person in the world and says "No, boys cannot be women. I said that I wanted to be a WAR MAN. I want to shoot bad guys."
Today they'd probably already have that poor kid on hormones.
The Nineteenth Amendment and its Consequences have been a Disaster for the United States.
The 17th through 23rd amendments were literally all mistakes.
Sounds like a perfect background story for a Marvel character.