Originally Posted by Paloma

It's not a "phenomenon". Children have gender roles inflicted on them, otherwise they just explore what looks fun. It's what children do until someone tells them it's wrong. And just because you played with dolls when you were a child (if you're a man), doesn't mean you're going to be gay, at all. I was very tomboyish when I was young, yet I'm a heterosexual, so where are you getting this bull**** from? Either way, gender doesn't have much to do with sexual orientation at all.