Response #1

As a child my parents always encouraged me to play sports, so like it or not I played soccer and baseball. It should have seemed clear that these kinds of activities did not appeal to me as I would much rather have been playing with my Sailor Moon dolls (yes, I had them) or playing make-believe games with my best friend (He tells people to this day that I always wanted to play female characters). Though they encouraged me to play sports, my parents never made it about being a man or masculine.