Dolls

I just read Mayim Bialik’s fantastic post on her sons’ love of dolls. I suspect the reason this has struck such a chord is how scared I am of giving dolls to my daughter.
I loved dolls as a child and had lots, like loads of dolls. That said I have this vivid memory of playing with my matchbox cars at school (how good are matchbox cars, seriously) and someone coming up and saying girls didn’t and shouldn’t play with cars.
I want as many diverse opportunities as possible for my daughter and so I am afraid everytime she has a doll that the world is telling her that’s all she can have, worse yet; all she can be.
Yet I read about a boy with a doll, or better yet see one, and I want to do a happy dance.
Hmm