I love country music. Shout it from the rooftops! Yeehaw! What I don't love about country music, however, is songs that rely on gender stereotypes. That BS makes me stabby. Right now there's two songs I've been hearing on the local country station that make me want to stick a hot poker into my temple. The first is "I'm Still a Guy" by Brad Paisley.

Monday afternoon, as I ran on a treadmill at my gym, out of the corner of my eye I noticed a commercial for Tonka toy trucks on the overhead TV. Was I delirious from my (slow) long run or did dehydration caused me to hallucinate, because I swore their new slogan read "built for boyhood." That seemed way too ridiculous to be true, so I shrugged it off until I got home and noticed the latest best seller list. For the umpteenth week, The Dangerous Book for Boys by British authors Conn Iggulden and Hal Iggulden, hovered near the top of the list. Maybe I wasn't overcome by endorphins when I noticed the Tonka ad. I did a quick internet search, and Feminist Philosophers confirmed it: explicitly gendered toys are back, baby!