What from your childhood would be UNTHINKABLE today?

[Martinus]

Funny thing about boys, even when their mothers try their best to keep anything remotely resembling a gun away from their child a boy will always find a way around that.

I don't ever remember wanting to play with guns except for when visiting my male cousins.  I generally stuck to my action figures.

Of course, I also played house and barbies with my sisters.

OMG it was the same with me.

I had He-Man action figures. And played with barbies. 

I did love swords and knights, though.

[Martinus]

I don't think I am over-protective, but at the same time, I think some of the things my parents let me do was simply stupid.

Well, you turned out we... oh right. 

[crazy canuck]

I don't ever remember wanting to play with guns except for when visiting my male cousins. 

So even you could not avoid the boy/gun attraction.

[Drakken]

Funny thing about boys, even when their mothers try their best to keep anything remotely resembling a gun away from their child a boy will always find a way around that.

I don't ever remember wanting to play with guns except for when visiting my male cousins.  I generally stuck to my action figures.

Of course, I also played house and barbies with my sisters.

OMG it was the same with me.

I had He-Man action figures. And played with barbies. 

I did love swords and knights, though.

[Martinus]

I don't ever remember wanting to play with guns except for when visiting my male cousins. 

So even you could not avoid the boy/gun attraction.

I think his attraction had to do with a different type of "guns" though.

[crazy canuck]

OMG it was the same with me.

We have identified an early detection method.  Can a cure be far behind.

[Martinus]

Speaking of which, my homophobic colleague from work recently told me that he bought his 4 y.o. son some toy knights. His son promptly undressed them and started to hit one of them against the other. When my colleague asked what they are doing, his son replied that they are kissing.

I roared with laughter, inwardly. 

[crazy canuck]

Speaking of which, my homophobic colleague from work ...

I wasnt refering to early detection for gays.   Very few of the gays around here act like you.

[Martinus]

Speaking of which, my homophobic colleague from work ...

I wasnt refering to early detection for gays.   Very few of the gays around here act like you.

[garbon]

So even you could not avoid the boy/gun attraction.

It was short lived though as their dog (half wolf, half german shepard) would try to attack anyone that pointed fake guns at them.

I remember now though, that my sister and I often played with water guns.

[garbon]

OMG it was the same with me.

I had He-Man action figures. And played with barbies. 

I did love swords and knights, though.

I had superheros, ninja turtles and transformers.

I also had My Little Pony, Barbies, and Polly Pocket.

[garbon]

I think his attraction had to do with a different type of "guns" though.

I liked the type of guns that you can see at the gun show.

[Neil]

Then I had kids, and realized that there was no fucking way I could handle something happening to them. I still cannot really relax when the younger one (almost 6) is outside playing and we are not out there keeping an eye on her. And we live in a extremely safe, friendly, and middle class neighborhood.

And that's the thing.  Even if you think you're smart, you're still vulnerable to the mass hysteria that the media peddles, down in your deep psychology.

[Queequeg]

Kevin Costner winning an Oscar.

[Caliga]

Oh yeah the guns thing. Carl has taken to playing shooting type imagination games - pretending he's shooting "monsters" with a stick, for example. My wife fretted mildly about that but I put my foot down - he can play such stuff if he wants to in my opinion.

Good job, groom him for the armed forces.