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Is Lego Sexist?

1 pointsby pattlealmost 3 years ago

4 comments

h2odragonalmost 3 years ago
Seeing as how lego figures have no sexual characteristics, and "gender is a social construct": aren't the ratios quoted solely the author's blame? You can't ask the plastic what it identifies as, you're assigning gender by your own prejudice.
superchromaalmost 3 years ago
Does anyone really accept the premise that making all the stormtrooper figures women (currently faceless and thus genderless) in a Lego Star Wars set is a real kind of progress and not just a cop out? No mention about transgender stormtroopers either. What&#x27;s the ideal ratio of female to trans figures, anyway?<p>Is 50&#x2F;50 (or 33&#x2F;33&#x2F;33, etc.) gender representation in Lego sets real progress, anyway?
veltasalmost 3 years ago
Why should there be an equal number of male and female Lego figures?
playingalongalmost 3 years ago
&gt; It’s extremely rare that you hear a bad word said about them<p>Well, not directly a piece of critique, but Lego is a symbol for consumerism culture to me.