Wow, I like pink ... and blue. Actually I like green and purple the best. No, I like all the colors. I'm just glad I can see. I have always thought of gender as a spectrum. On one end of the spectrum you have the most masculine Rambo and on the other the most feminine Princess and the Pea. All people populate this spectrum whether they have a male body or female body. But when I think about a spectrum, the first thing that comes to mind is color. White light is a mixture of all the colors. If you take one of the colors out, you don't get white. Therefore gender is like color. when you take all the genders of all the people, you get the whole ... white. Take one out and something is missing, the white is gone. I think part of our problem in understanding gender is not realizing that gender expression can be different than gender. My definition of gender is where you are on the gender spectrum when your guard is down and you can be who you really are. I have read many examples of transsexual women having lived life as a Marine or a fire fighter or participating in other macho endeavors. Many times in an attempt to "cure" themselves. Most of the time to prove themselves to the people who were defining what was expected of them. As for me, a transsexual woman, I didn't have to be a Marine. However, I have expended massive amounts of energy to push my gender expression as far as I can to the masculine side of the spectrum. Until we let people be who they are, the world cannot be white. It will always be dull and dingy. Oh, if all that energy could be used to accomplish positive things! If a man can wear pink, I think that he is more self confident and courageous than Rambo. I doubt he could pull it off. If a boy child wants to play with dolls on the pink side of the room, or a girl child wants to play with trucks on the blue side, I say we should let them. And, at the same time, teach the kids to accept themselves and others in their gender expression. Once we get over that hurdle, perhaps we could somehow determine, early in life, those children who either are comfortable with both their gender and sex, or are comfortable with their gender, but not with their sex. And while we are at it, whats all this about sticks and snails and puppy dog tails?