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Is Lego Sexist?

by pattle on 7/31/22, 11:37 AM with 4 comments

• by h2odragon on 7/31/22, 12:50 PM

  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.

• by superchroma on 7/31/22, 12:03 PM

  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's the ideal ratio of female to trans figures, anyway?

  Is 50/50 (or 33/33/33, etc.) gender representation in Lego sets real progress, anyway?

• by veltas on 7/31/22, 1:02 PM

  Why should there be an equal number of male and female Lego figures?

• by playingalong on 7/31/22, 12:01 PM

  > It’s extremely rare that you hear a bad word said about them

  Well, not directly a piece of critique, but Lego is a symbol for consumerism culture to me.