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Boys Who Play With Dolls “Have a Problem”

This said, boys should not play with dolls, and boys who do play with them have a problem.

In Douglas Wilson’s own words: 1 quote from 2001, from Future Men: Raising Boys to Fight Giants, cited to the source.

This said, boys should not play with dolls, and boys who do play with them have a problem. […] For most boys, the right general response to effeminacy is natural (as in, yuck), but instruction and correction is still necessary. This is because the boys do not know how to make the distinction between that which should be mocked in themselves and that which must be honored in the girls. For those boys who gravitate toward playing house, and dolls, and dress-ups, wise parental control, oversight, and redirection is necessary.

— Douglas Wilson, Future Men: Raising Boys to Fight Giants, Canon Press, 2001, Chapter 2: “Effeminacy and Biblical Masculinity” (subsection “Feminine Boys”)