Boys have played with toys guns, bows, spears etc ever since boys were invented. That IS what boys do.
Not if women and the feminized American male, and Cheri, have their way.
My goodness, if this school pulled this stuff over an air soft gun I would hate to see what they would have done when I was growing up.
You should see their reaction to a Pop Tart gun. Whew weee!
In zoology there is a term called "Display" that deals with certain animal behavior, and is linked to the survival of the species. Most people associate
display with the eye-catching, loud and proud plumage of the peacоck, or the chest-beating antics of the lowland and mountain gorillas, or the growling and biting actions of the elephant seal. The male fiddler crab advertises the size of their enlarged claw to intimidate their rivals, and in the hopes that female fiddler crabs believe that big claw+big feet=equals a really big you know. There are some species or birds where the male builds the nest and then furnishes it with the latest doodads of shiny, pretty things to woo the female with his riches and provide-ability. Some of these displays are for the right to breed, as with "torunament species" such as the deer, ram sheep, bears, where they butt heads and slap each other around, but rarely does anyone actually get hurt. They are mock fighting for the right to breed, for territory, for a lot of reasons. Often it's nothing more than honing their skills and sizing one another up so that in the case they do actually need to fight, they'll know how. Survival of the species. And while growing up, they learn how to do these things by pretending with their mock fights and their play fighting."
There are a few species where the females dominate with the display behavior, such as the spotted hyena and a few others.
In the human animal (a term which makes some of you religious fundamentalists cringe, deal with it) it is a combination of both, where the females tend to be the more flamboyantly displayed in order to attract potential suitors, and then picks the male she finds the most attractive, and the males are forever battling to hone their skills to prove their worthy of being picked.
Females begin honing their skills at an early age by playing dress up and learning the skilled intricacies of teasing the males. The males begin their education by honing their skills by playing at the same competitions as many other animals, by physical fighting where nobody actually gets hurt, or by mock fighting using swords, light sabres, toy guns, and Pop Tarts with three bites removed.
Females, even adult ones, incredibly as it sounds, don't understand why males need to perform these aggressive behaviors, and thus they want to squash these instinctive tendencies, thereby forcing little boys to behave much the same as little girls. The result is generations of wimpy, sissyfied, feminize men who can't handle adversity and need to be taken care of, because they're never honed their aggressive survival skills that would teach them how to fight and survive.
