Haha, my parents tried to do the gender neutral thing with me too. I remember an endless parade of totally boring matchbox cars. (The "boy toys" I really wanted were Thundercats but no one ever got me any.)
The funny thing is that I really wasn't that into dolls when I was a kid, I much preferred animal toys. Stuffed animals and plastic animals and Breyer horses. I had Barbie dolls, but there were only three I really liked: my Princess Jasmine doll, my African doll (she was one of the Barbies of the World, I don't remember what country, but she had the greatest "ethnic" outfit and the softest flocked hair) and a western Barbie in cowgirl attire with pale skin and black hair just like me, and she was the lucky owner of all my horses. :3
My niece is 3 1/2 and I think she's got the gender neutral thing down. She got a baby doll for Christmas that I've never seen her play with! She has stuffed animals and plastic animals. She really loves Princess Sofia. And yes, she has some ponies: little g3 hand me down ponies and each one comes in a little tin so they can all have beds to sleep in.
EDIT:
The Brony documentary is really cute, it's definitely "pro-Brony".
The funny thing is that I really wasn't that into dolls when I was a kid, I much preferred animal toys. Stuffed animals and plastic animals and Breyer horses. I had Barbie dolls, but there were only three I really liked: my Princess Jasmine doll, my African doll (she was one of the Barbies of the World, I don't remember what country, but she had the greatest "ethnic" outfit and the softest flocked hair) and a western Barbie in cowgirl attire with pale skin and black hair just like me, and she was the lucky owner of all my horses. :3
My niece is 3 1/2 and I think she's got the gender neutral thing down. She got a baby doll for Christmas that I've never seen her play with! She has stuffed animals and plastic animals. She really loves Princess Sofia. And yes, she has some ponies: little g3 hand me down ponies and each one comes in a little tin so they can all have beds to sleep in.
EDIT:
The Brony documentary is really cute, it's definitely "pro-Brony".