[That's such an enormous bombshell to drop on a toy that Buzz HAS to switch to video.]
He what?
[Her father denied her playtime and made her feel like she wasn't a person? What kind of horrifying monster raised this poor girl?]
He had no right to do that! Children need to play, it's how they learn to navigate the world! It's how they learn who they are, who they want to be, what brings them joy!
[Unless he's wrong, and she didn't need those things at all? Something tells him he's not wrong, but he's felt things very strongly and been wrong about them before.]
Unless - unless you figured all that out anyway.
[But she's still said that she was created to be something, and that simply cannot possibly be true, categorically, because she is, in fact, a person.]
Listen, I don't know much about parenting. [He's only seen how three parents do things, between Mrs. Davis and Bonnie's Mom and Dad, but they all fall on the side of 'let kids play' and that worked out well for Andy, and is working out well for Bonnie.] But I do know that you - [he is categorically right about this, he has to be, because that is the whole reason not being a person can be terrible, if you don't like what you're made to do, why it's so fortunate that he DOES like what he was made to be -] are nobody's tool. You're your own person, no matter what your father taught you. He was wrong about not letting you play as a child, and he's wrong to tell you anything else.
[Video]
He what?
[Her father denied her playtime and made her feel like she wasn't a person? What kind of horrifying monster raised this poor girl?]
He had no right to do that! Children need to play, it's how they learn to navigate the world! It's how they learn who they are, who they want to be, what brings them joy!
[Unless he's wrong, and she didn't need those things at all? Something tells him he's not wrong, but he's felt things very strongly and been wrong about them before.]
Unless - unless you figured all that out anyway.
[But she's still said that she was created to be something, and that simply cannot possibly be true, categorically, because she is, in fact, a person.]
Listen, I don't know much about parenting. [He's only seen how three parents do things, between Mrs. Davis and Bonnie's Mom and Dad, but they all fall on the side of 'let kids play' and that worked out well for Andy, and is working out well for Bonnie.] But I do know that you - [he is categorically right about this, he has to be, because that is the whole reason not being a person can be terrible, if you don't like what you're made to do, why it's so fortunate that he DOES like what he was made to be -] are nobody's tool. You're your own person, no matter what your father taught you. He was wrong about not letting you play as a child, and he's wrong to tell you anything else.