Honestly, as a girl who was actually given access to both, I chose both. I still have my barbies, I still have my lego sets, I still have my electronics kits. I

Honestly, as a girl who was actually given access to both, I chose both. I still have my barbies, I still have my lego sets, I still have my electronics kits. I don't think I was ostracized (or at least I found my own tinkerer community), and I played with everything I was given with. I think what made this cooler was that my dad was supportive of what I wanted to do (e.g. make houses, make lights for barbies, make websites to describe what I was working on), even though he didn't understand some of how it worked. Perhaps unsurprisingly, today I'm a software engineer. I know this is purely anecdotal, but I think we forget that if you give kids access to everything, they will figure out their own playtime and communities.