Thursday, December 6, 2007

Men and Stuffed Toys

Ever wondered why only women like stuffed toys and men don’t. Well, here’s my theory on this :

It’s not that men don’t like stuffed toys. It’s that if they admit that they do like them, the rest of the men would tease them immensely for that. No guy would ever admit in public that he’s not offended by stuffed toys and that he would not mind having a couple of them in his room.

Of course, there is no way to test this point. It’s a vicious circle. The moment a guy agrees to this theory, it would imply that he likes stuffed toys and hence he cannot admit it in public.

P.S. : Replace ‘stuffed toys’ with ‘flowers’ and the same theory holds

2 comments:

Aakash said...

It could be possible that its because of the fear of embarrasment or teasing that grown up men do not admit their possible liking (if it exists) for soft toys in public. But what about kids? I realized this after I got to spend some time with my nephew and niece (both now 3 yrs old). For the first couple of months after they could move on their own and play around, for some reason, they dint have any soft toys or any other toys to play with. And guess what my niece started liking fur and played with whatever furry and soft she could find in the house (clothes,mats,pillows etc.) whereas my nephew, although he otherwise seems to want everything that my niece plays with, did not even bother with these new toys that she had found. (On the other hand he was always interested in breaking/making things i.e. something mechanical in nature).

Now one could argue that it is something that they have inherited and because their parents behaved in this particular fashion, they also do so. Lets think about it - a person's behaviour is a composition of his "genetic" behaviour and "learned" behaviour. And we are debating whether this liking for soft toys comes from genetic part of it or the learned part. For toddlers such a behaviour is definitely part of their genes since they have had very less interaction with the society and environment i.e. learning. And genes can only inherit what was in their parent genes - your genes do not get affected/changed by your learned behaviour, and so if you extrapolate this behaviour to long back, it seems that such a behaviour can only have been transmitted through genes and hence is inherent and not learned. However I do agree that learning/environment can reinforce it and make it much more evident.

FreaKick said...

Another theory:
Men like women. Women like stuffed toys. So, in the envy equation men are supposed to detest stuffed toys. Thats why men will detest celebrity men which women adore.. SRK types.