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I'd offer the counter example of other infant primates expressing gender preferences for toys. https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13596-male-monkeys-prefer

• ZeroGravitas 7y ago
  An interesting fact from that study that gets often overlooked is that the female monkeys spent as much time playing with the "boy" toys as the male monkies. They only had a stronger preference because the boys didn't play with the cuddly toys as much. A subtle but important distinction. This is similar to studies that show women's favourite colour is actually blue. But what gets reported is that they have a stronger preference for pink, because, compared with men, more chose that and that somehow gets into the consciousness as "girls prefer pink over blue".