If you go shopping in any toy store, you can see clearly the different games and toys for boys and girls: there are a lot of pink toys on one side of the store for girls; and dark-colored cars, guns, and soldiers for boys.

The only child of a wealthy Ford Motor executive, Williams amassed 2,000 toy soldiers in his parents' thirty-room mansion as a kid.

In the video war, there may be some manipulation of anxiety, some adrenaline to the heart, but absolutely nothing is at stake.When I was a boy, I was given plastic army men.