What's Acceptable?

Growing up as a child I loved to play with remote controlled cars. They seemed to be the greatest invention of the time because I would always wonder how the remote could control the car from so far away. So for Christmas each year  and birthdays and such, I would always ask for a newer remote controlled car. But when the remote controlled planes and helicopters came out I was completely memorized. I couldn't believe it went from cars that drove themselves by remote, to planes and helicopters that could actually stay in the air with these remotes. This type of toy was acceptable for a boy growing up. But if a girl were to have a remote controlled car it would have seemed to be weird or socially unacceptable. I learned this because whenever I saw girls playing with a toy, it would have been a doll or a princess themed toy and that was socially acceptable. I never really had any thoughts of particular toys that I wanted to play with, but couldn't. I always played with guy themed toys and I was okay with that.