I Never Expect the Glitter

I never expect the glitter. My sister's daughter was the first girly-girl I ever witnessed. My sister was never girly - not a tomboy, but never pink and glitter. None of my friends were pink and glitter. Most of them were the geeky smart kids.
I really thought the glitter-pink girls were a minority. Maybe, when I was fourteen we were still coming out of the whole 'woman's movement', so girls weren't allowed/encouraged to be pink?

I saw an ad for a Tonka truck thing, and the pitch line was something like, 'Boys are made different'. Imagine saying that in the seventies, when the woman's movement tried to make everyone believe we were all equal in strenghts and weaknesses. They seriously pushed the belief that boys and girls were born the same, and it was what we taught them that made them like dolls or trucks.
I guess it ended when one of the libbers had a boy, and he yanked off his doll's arm and pretended it was a gun. :)