Here's a sample of a confrontation. Hollywood aside, not all confrontations end in a shower of bullets. ;-)

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"Dolls are dumb. Only dumb girls like dumb dolls." Jorge put another Lego on his super-sonic, lightspeed rocket.

Lupe smacked his Legos with "Princess Margarita" - her ugly, old Barbie doll. His rocket ship broke apart. "Only poopie boys think dolls are dumb." She smoothed the doll's hair back down. "Right, Princess Margarita?"

He glared at his sister and started putting his blocks back in place. No one could destroy his ultra-secret rocket - it was made to look like it could be broken, but he knew better. "Dolls don't do nothing. Even Mom doesn't have a doll."

"Dad doesn't have Legos." She crossed her arms across her body in triumph. Older sisters always thought they were so smart but they weren't and he knew it.

"Well, well, when Dad got me them, he said he wished he had some just like these and Mom didn't say that when she got your stupid doll 'cause I was there when she got it." He stuck out his tongue at her. "So there."

Lupe stared at him for several seconds. She knew he was right and she was just a dumb girl but she didn't want to admit it. Suddenly she popped the head of her doll and threw it across the room. "Mom!" she wailed.

Mom walked into the room, hands on her hips. "Jorge, I've told you to stop picking on your sister. Now you go to your room until you're ready to play nice with her."

"But, Mom - "

"The only butt here is going to be your spanked one if you don't go right now." She pointed to his room.

As Jorge trudged down the hall, he heard his Mom say to Lupe, "It's okay. The head pops back on. See? Don't let Jorge get to you - boys like to pick on girls sometimes, that's all. You just stand up to them and they'll stop. Hey, now that Princess Margarita is feeling better, do you two want to have a tea party with me?"

He slammed his door shut. Dumb girls!