AIBU to think that dolls shouldn't just be for girls?

I hate the idea of different toys for boys and girls.

DS loved his Action Man.

Wherever you went in our house Akshie would be there.....Dangling from the bannister, tied up with baler twine, face down in the tray of the baby's high chair or propped up on a radiator after he'd fallen in the bath.

I rather missed Akshie when DS outgrew him.

I have a heap of toys in my house and they include a buggy, which happens to be pink, and a rather dilapidated baby doll of indeterminate sex. My youngest grandson (getting on for three) often plays with it and sometimes the other younger ones do too. It never occurred to me that it was a "girl's toy". If little girls are encouraged to play at being mummy, why shouldn't little boys play at being daddy? He also loves to play with what he calls the big house – a three-storey dolls' house.

I was rather shocked when my GSs other grandparents bought the youngest a dolly in a pink outfit and a small pushchair.

I stand corrected he often zooms it round the room.

What about ActionMan? we bought him for our 2 boys back in the 60-70s.
The girls had Tiny Tears, so I suppose we were promoting sexism.

My cousin had a dolly when he was a little boy. He used to push it around in a pushchair belonging to his older sister. As he grew older he graduated to bikes and go-carts etc. as most little boys do.
On a different tack, when my eldest GS started school he went uniform shopping with his mum. He was very disappointed to learn that he was expected to wear trousers at school, he wanted a skirt and tights like his big sister!

My ex-brother in law was horrified when I bought my eldest son a pushchair for his doll. (A cabbage patch baby doll called Chantelle that he cadged from his older sister and renamed Sam - now played with by my grandsons.) I think if perhaps such toys were marketed in a gender neutral way he would still have been perturbed, but maybe it would have influenced a more enlightened attitude in the next generation.