roachpatrol:

damianimated:

At Target this lady told her son he couldn’t have a Wonder Woman doll because “that’s for girls” and then bought her daughter the same one. It got me thinking about how often I see people bar young boys from appreciating girls/women as protagonists and heroes, and my own experience with it as a kid.

my mom’s biggest and most bewildered objection to me being a trans man was that i grew up passionately enamored of disney princesses. but those ladies were vibrant badasses who wore beautiful dresses and had animal friends and cool adventures– of course tons of girls want to be them. what’s fucked up is that little boys are trained not to even give them a second look.