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« on: February 10, 2012, 04:13:27 am »

The really wonderful thing about LEGO when I was a kid was that it was so open ended and imagination based. It was literally just BRICKS. You could do anything with them.. anything.. And no one told us what or how to build and how to play with them. OR if they were boys or girls toys. The original boxes had BOTH girls and boys playing.. http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/253/legosetolduj1.jpg/
LEGO themselves created the image of bricks as boys toys.
I'd love girls/females to be better represented in LEGO but not as these helpless, sheltered, weak characters. I want fully empowered female minifigs!! Give me Pippin! Agent Trace!! If LEGO would just make more female minifigs I'd be happy. http://imageshack.us/f/269/girlsn.jpg/
No major anatomy changes.. they don't even need lipstick!! Just maybe alternate heads, or double faced minifigs girl/boy, and two sets of hair. possibly some alternate shirts in the sets. Equal opportunity to be the "worker" or the "hero".

Friends, while it has some AWESOME pieces, just pushes girls back into the kitchen, and trivializes their real potential as builders of the future.



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« Reply #1 on: February 10, 2012, 12:44:58 pm »

I passed some of those LEGO Friends sets at my local Target store with my mother last weekend. We looked at them and laughed.

These sets might have been okay back in the '50s. In 2012 - almost what, one hundred years since women have received the right to vote and have full status as citizens? - this is just unacceptable. Why can't women be super heroines; femme fatales who can kick plastic butt and save the day, just like male characters do on a daily basis? They are more than capable. One can keep his masculinity fully intact while watching a female character fill a dominant role. If one can't, then the fault lies with him.

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