dolls and gender [Just a weird thought!]

I love female dolls, I think they are stunning... but I will never own one. I take more pride in creating a male doll... but I am also attracted to males. Soo... I think it has less to do with gender and more to do with what a person is attracted to, what perks their interest or inspires them to create a character.

 

I'm not a fan of boy dolls, I find male clothing is sooo boring. You ever walk around the men's section at a department store? Ugh, boring. I like being a girl and buying adorable dresses for my girl dolls to wear and girlygirlyvomiting over it all.

Most boy dolls are so feminine anyway, I like manly mountain men hahaha.

 

Nope.. I love the clothes that comes with the female dolls, & I made the error of buying a boy, & while he was lovely.. I just did not feel that he clicked.

If I was getting a boy doll I wish I would have saved up & bought a SD or SD13 size, bc they have some of the best historical outfits that I would not mind dressing them up in, but MSD size does not have the same extensive options for dressing outside of super cute.

 

Solution: don't shop at boring mainstream department stores. Shop at interesting stores. Hang out with interestingly-dressed men. Mucho de foxy menswear out there. The kind of menswear I like to put on my foxy boy dolls.

And... there is absolutely nothing boring about the men's underwear department. I know I am not the only woman in the world who secretly pats the plastic CK mannequins on their pert manly little bottoms. The lady at Macy's told me so. xD

 

LOL! I agree whole heartedly with Jenny! I am attracted to the male dolls and own a few girls too. While the girls wear what they please the boys are way more selective. And I do like some softness to my men. Doesn't make them less manly

 

I'm a girl and the majority of my dolly family, by far, are girls. I think it's just a personal preference type thing to be honest!

 

Isn't this going into sorta sigmund freud's theories about envy and such? about people desiring the opposite sex. although it is used as a very very large generalization, i do feel that it is true for the most part. oh i'm also a boy with only female dolls.

 

I'm a girl with two boys, and always seem to be more attracted to them as a sculpt. Walking through cons I’ll always look at the girls’outfits and the boys’ heads. I definitely like dressing up girls better than boys, but I also don’t think I have it in me to drop 300$ on a girl. They just aren’t something I care enough for. Instead I torcher one of my guys and put him in dresses

I shouldn’t say I would never buy a girl doll. I have a girl on the way, but she’s a 17cm centaur from Doll Chateau that I fell in love with 'cause of her size and legs. I know buying her was different from how I normally purchase dolls ‘cause I could never bring myself to buy her larger counterpart (Alberta) though I thought she was beautiful.

 

My doll collection consists of both male and female dolls. I am also not very restrictive when it comes to their clothing, so I don't see the problem with boring or less boring clothes for different doll genders. I can put a busty female doll into cargo pants and t-shirt, or cover a male doll in frills and pink if I want to. Most of my dolls wear fantasy attire anyway which can be worn by all genders. Gender stereotypes are just that - stereotypes.

I would say most people who collect one gender only do it out of one of the following reasons: 1) they find this type of doll more aesthetically pleasing, 2) they consider it attractive in terms of sexual attraction, or 3) they find it easier to identify with.

Oh, and I am a gender-undecided, bisexual creature, so the theory about collecting the gender you find attractive would fit me and my collection, but not the theory about collecting the opposite (LOL) gender.

 

I have only girls at home... I would like a guy now but my choice is more difficult for boy's heads available... and it means SD size... then I will wait a little longer to find the rare pearl!!!

 

I am a female with mostly male BJDs. I find them more interesting and beautiful than female dolls. I love the diversity with the male sculpts, from manly males to feminine males, from muscular to slim. I guess the theory of collecting the gender you're sexually attracted to would work in my case. The one female I have is the epitome of female beauty in my opinion, and I don't have an urge to get another female anytime soon. But I am constantly adding males to my want list.

 

I'm actually quite the opposite. I'm a guy and I love my girls to death, but I identify with my males always. I want to buy them clothes just like my own and love to dress them like me. I want them to be a perfect version of how I see myself. I'm not one of the guys who chooses to play as the girl in the fighting games or anything like that, I always pour myself into my male characters and think of them as avatars of one "version" of me (the geek, the bookworm, the white knight, the vampire, the rocker, the wallflower, they're all versions of my own complex personality) so I do the same with my male dolls.

 

I started out collecting boys, but then I've been really really wanting girls lately~
I Have a lot of friends though who only collect boys and think girl dolls are mehh.
So I guess it just depends on the preference of the hobbyist!

 

I think your theory is corect since i would perfer my first doll to be female over male

 

LOL! JennyNemesis - Patting the CK's pert bottom at Macy's!

Anyway, I am a girl, so I've been told, a mother & a wife. I have never been a girlygirl, more of a tomboy, but I love seeing babies & small children (resin & real) dressed as if they stepped out of a holiday catalog. However, I never dressed my 3 kids that way when they were growing up. It would have went against their personalities. My only daughter is a hair from 20 years old now & totally taken with the lovely-lolita style dresses from Korea. She would cosplay her way into anyone's heart with ruffles & pigtails (she would have died if I put her in ruffles as a child). She is fit and trim 5'5 & 125 lbs, beautiful copper red hair (with soft waves not curls) nor a freckle to be seen on her white skin... and her job?? A United States Army Military Police Officer on her way to a tour in Afghanistan... a total bad-ass! She is also pan sexual & very comfortable in her own skin, because I imposed no gender rules on her growing up only tolerance of others. If she wanted to drive trucks in the mud, so be it, if she wanted to cuddle a doll, that was great too.

I own both male & female dolls (none have the parts, they are androgynous bodies) but they have personalities. Just like my kids growing up, I dress them to fit who they are, not who I thought I wanted them to be when they arrived.

 

I'm a girl that owns all girl dolls. I honestly find male dolls quite boring and limited... probably because I am not used to dressing males haha!

 

I personally like boys a little more, but I tend to err on the side of totally androgynous simply because then I can have the doll be or dress any gender I damn well please, LOL.

 

no- i totally find it the other way around! Im a boy and im not so interested in getting a female :T

 

emm.. interesting question ) I'm female and all my dolls (9) are girls. I want Realpuki Popo, but he isn't absolutely male I think )))
Deep down I really would like the male doll.. It's my special and secret dream.. ) I often look over BJD shops and Sales, and I like many boys.. but I can't still find my "ideal guy".. I'm just still waiting )

 

For some reason I always thought it was the other way around, not that I'd ever paid close attention :P I'm female and really only female dolls ever hold my attention. I have wanted a male head on a female body before though, but in general I just like the female form better. I'm happy for a girl doll to dress/act masculine though.