Let me try.<p>I frankly find it bizarre that so many things -- colors, clothes, toys, certain behaviors -- that should have nothing to do with gender are associated with gender. Why are toy isles even gendered? Why does everything for girls have to be pink? The kids wouldn&#x27;t care if the adults hadn&#x27;t already hoisted the distinction on them.<p>I feel like, if we got rid of all these false associations, the difference between genders would be minimal, and that would make the sorts of problems discussed in the article a lot more manageable.<p>Or are all of these just distractions, and am I missing the point entirely?