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Tag Archives: gender
LEGO Friends series – an actual review
Given how much I’ve recently been discussing LEGO and gender, I can forgive the commentary that’s assumed that I am fundamentally opposed to the new Friends themed LEGO sets. I’m not – not really. I don’t like the way it’s … Continue reading
Lego Club membership – are you a girl, or are you normal?
I have been sticking up for Lego recently, arguing that their new Friends sets aren’t necessarily them insisting that girls MUST play with these new sets, or must NOT play with existing sets – it’s them trying to increase the … Continue reading
I’m a little boy at heart. Or something.
It should be of no surprise that the vast majority of protagonists in video games are male – from Mario to Duke Nukem, Bitterman to Link, girls are few and far between, as shown in this recent exchange between a … Continue reading
The Cult of LEGO on minifigs, gender and diversity
Baichtal & Meno’s lovely recent book The Cult Of Lego tells us “The first female minifig was a nurse. The ratio of male-to-female minifigs is 18:1.” Eighteen! I wonder what proportion of those “male” figures had the original genderless face … Continue reading
Advent calendar: 24. Playmobile and gender segregation of toys
Hamleys had come under fire for their gender separation of toys in their store, and recently rearranged their floor labelling by theme and type instead of gender. Even this attracted some criticism – presumably in a large part from those … Continue reading
Advent calendar: 23. Lego Minifigures – gender roundup
I’ve been promising this post for a while: a gender audit of the recent collectible Lego minifigures sets, following my gender audit of Polly’s Duplo and Lego. As I’ve been talking a lot recently about Lego, minifigures and gender, I’ve … Continue reading
Advent calendar: 16. The changing face of the Lego minifigure
1975 – the minifigure has no face. Why would it? Kids are perfectly capable of imagining any face they can. The clothes come in four colours (red, blue, black and white), and there is pigtail hair, a sailor hat and … Continue reading
Advent calendar: 14. Lego and Duplo gender audit
I wrote the other day about the new Lego Friends series that will be released next year, and it seems plenty of other people were interested in the new sets and what it means about Lego’s expectations and assumptions regarding … Continue reading
Advent calendar: 11. New Lego sets for 2012
Polly has been a terrible influence on both Neal and myself. We have become Lego obsessives. Before Polly, while we both liked Lego, we didn’t really buy it. We had some from when we were kids, plus the Mindstorms sets … Continue reading
Girlie pink crap is bad for boys and girls alike
The Telegraph recently published an article about girls preferring pink from age two, which my twitter feed buzzed briefly about. This is the kind of thing I’m interested in, trying to bring my daughter up to be a well-rounded human … Continue reading