Guys and Dolls

[jsteele]

NOT sex dolls, NOT fembots; just dolls as in mundane, children's dolls; and I'm ready to tell you all this:

Despite being male, I enjoyed playing with dolls as a kid.

I would play with my cousin's dolls when she visited, and very much enjoyed it.


THEN,I tried asking my parents for dolls of my own. It didn't go well. They were VERY big on gender roles and never caved. I remember liking my action figures too, don't get me wrong, but dolls were a "forbidden" interest for much of my childhood. Not sure how many of us here remember "My Buddy" and "Kid Sister", but I wanted the Kid Sister doll so bad, that when I got a My Buddy, it was the ultimate insult.

I'd also like to add that I have NO gender issues from this.

I'd hidden this for years; but I'm finally ready to reveal this and also discuss it; curious if anyone else here can relate.

Hope for feedback soon.

[SyntheticSoul]

I totally understand the overlap between dolls and robots; they're both perfect reflections of the human form. I'm a girl and my parents never cared about gender roles so I didn't like dolls very much as a kid, I was much more interested in toy guns and action films but when I got older I started to get interested in them, specifically I was really interested in electronic dolls; dolls that could move and talk but that interest started to extend to just regular dolls too. As an adult I've discovered the wonderful world of real life robotics but in a way they're just really tall dolls and I adore them. If you ever want to discuss dolls or real life robotics, you can PM me.

[Gorgo]

I can understand some boys desires to play with dolls as I went through that stage myself as a child. It never left me; in many ways, this went part-and-parcel with my interest in humanoid AIs as a whole. Ultimately, it influenced my writing (I write about bioroids a lot in my stories) as well.

It got to the point where, when I retired from customer service work, I used my severance pay to purchase three Smartdolls from Japan. They're right here:

My girls