(and am still curious about your stance regarding darker skinned people considering your “political axes to grind” remarks

i am a darker skinned person. and why are you positing a biological taxonomy of the human race straight out of the mind of a 5-year old, light skinned vs. dark skinned?

Mustapha:

Sorry to tell you buddy, but “miscegenation” was going on FAR before “wogs” came around. AFAIK(and feel free to correct me on this anyone) all human groups interbred with other hominems(which I would think would be “miscegenation” of a far higher order than whites + non-whites(not to just limit it here, as this mindset occurs across many groups, considering lighter skinned haitians vs darker skinned haitians.).

Though on another note, without miscegenation you wouldn’t be here so that would be a plus.

–Jeff Foxworthy

Sounds like your girls are coming along just fine.

Judith – You mean all those French people and Brazilians have been eating raw cat meat? Wow.

As for role models; a friend of mine, sporting a no-nonsense short crop of hair, had her daughter announce that one day she was going to have ‘nice long hair like daddy’.

As for @88, the danger of toxoplasmosis has been much exaggerated. You get it from cat feces or cat meat. So, while you’re pregnant, don’t touch the cat litter. And keep your 6 month old from eating either the cat poo or the cat itself. If you’ve got that sorted, you should be fine.

There’s always hope I guess. My daughter has never played with a doll in her life, and refuses to wear pink, as it’s too girly.

My 1 yo daughter has no interest in dolls or soft toys either, but just loves train sets, and arranging the train carriages…

My sister’s daughter is/was the same, even insisting on being called a boys nickname and never wearing dresses or skirts ever – but at 11 yo says she wants to attend a private girls school, where girls uniform is mandatory.

I hope Razib keeps the baby quarantined from the cat – toxoplasmodium gondii and all that…

Paul, I found having a tomboy daughter to be great fun – we got to play with all the cool stuff together. She morphed out of it into a feminine young lady naturally when she was ready, although she has remained the hard-headed science type.

After major surgery, she was the one who was constantly right next to me during my recovery.

I could do a lot worse than to wish Razib a daughter like mine.

You have now entered the parental time warp, where time simultaneously moves too fast and not fast enough!

Your daughter’s 2D:4D ratio is about the same as my eldest daughter and my son, my youngest daughter has a more masculine ratio, same as me, with the tip of index finger almost level with the knuckle of the middle finger.

@Sandgroper,

My 8 yo daughter is a bit of a tomboy, and enjoys soccer, and has mostly boy friends, who she plays nerf guns, and even owns toy wrestling figures. She’s recently taken an interest in electronics – after a visit to the Franklin Institute in Philly – and wants to build a robot. So I’ve bought an “Arduino Mega Kit”, to build some circuits with her, and try and make some elementary electronics. Obviously I’m delighted with this turn of events…