Legos for girls - feminists are angry

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"What it's doing is telling girls that this is what's important to you," Edell said of the beauty parlor and hot tub sets. "Girls aren't building space shuttles, they're getting their nails done."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/20...#ixzz1sbnPn200

Btw - My daughter (tops in her class in math and science, 2nd highest score in the entire school in English) loves these more than regular Legos. She doesn't want to have anything to do with my son's Lego spaceships and construction sets. She actually has the beauty salon one.

Megan Williams, left, president of the empowerment group Hardy Girls Healthy Women, and Colby education professor Lyn Mikel Brown are behind a protest of a new Lego line. The “girly” behavior depicted by the pastel-clad characters has infuriated activists, including Hardy Girls Healthy Women, a girls’ empowerment group in Waterville, and SPARK, a national organization against the sexualization of girls and women in the media. Both groups were founded by developmental psychologist Lyn Mikel Brown, a Colby education professor. After members of the groups started a movement against the toys on Twitter and Facebook, they posted a petition on Change.org, a website that advocates for social movements. There were 1,000 signatures within 12 hours, Brown said, and nearly 3,000 as of Saturday evening. The line of Lego sets was launched Jan. 1, after four years of research on what would get more girls to play with Legos, a toy lauded for exercising children’s brains.The study included presenting Lego characters with different looks and in different scenes, and asking girls to pick their favorites, said Michael McNally, brand relations director of Lego Systems Inc. “I don’t know if there’s the assumption that we have said this is what girls should be doing. … This is what they told us they wanted,” he said. Brown argues that what children want isn’t always what’s good for them, and she expected more from a company that prides itself in making a toy with educational value.

http://boston.barstoolsports.com/aro...-target-legos/

[cats2win]

Where's the lego sandwich?

[DigglerontheHoof]

ugly chicks suck

[TOR]

The space shuttle has been decommissioned, you stupid whore.

[MyQuick=FrenchToast]

Just wait til the uproar from some "Family Focused" group happens when some little boy wants the girl legos.

I $#@!ing love Legos. Much like coloring.

[THujone]

You know, I think tailoring Legos for little girls is a great idea.

You hear all the time that "girls/women just aren't good with tools" or "women just don't understand" x y or z having to do with hands-on, mechanical type stuff. It's not a gender thing, it's an upbringing thing. Little boys are steered toward sports and other activities (legos, construction sets, what-have-you) that help develop an understanding of geometry, space and physics that starts to come naturally later in life. But it's as a result of all those activities as children.

Women on the other hand (with definite exceptions) are generally not given the opportunity to do the types of activities that develop the skills and spatial reasoning that little boys are. I think the whole thing is kind of sad, actually. A woman might try to do something or understand something that a male just "knows" and label herself stupid or clumsy, when in reality she wasn't ever provided the opportunity or encouragement to do the things at a younger age which help develop those skills.

Sure, sometimes a little girl would rather just play dolls or have a princess party instead of helping dad with the car. There are certainly gender differences in what each sex gravitates to...but I don't think the gap is as large as it appears. I just think that girl toys have always been pink $#@! covered in more pink $#@! that doesn't do anything but occasionally cry or piss itself, while toys for boys have been legos, constructions sets and model airplanes---all of which actually contribute to development and learning.

So these bitches may think the legos are themed poorly or in a sexist fashion and I agree a little bit. But I think it's a great start.

[misslaw]

I would have loved those legos!!!

[Hellraiser97]

And what is to stop girls that want to play with regular legos from playing with them? Stupid whores.

[fluff]

$#@!ing genius move on Lego's part. Surprised it took them this long...

[Hogssmellgood]

Where's the lego sandwich?

Lock it up.

[Shutup Lou Holtz]

Shouldnt these bitches be worrying about their softball tournament instead of legos?

[Lerka Lerka]

Where's the lego sandwich?

Lock it up.

this

[BurntEyes]

Legos Rule. As a child, I never got to go to Lego Land in SD (well really north of SD). When my niece and nephew got old enough (twins), I was totally pumped when I got to take them to Lego Land. It was awesome. I freaking still love Legos.
/csb

I think these thing are cool, and being that a bday is coming up, might just purchase some for my niece.

[Brisketexan]

And what is to stop girls that want to play with regular legos from playing with them? Stupid whores.

And that's the entire rebuttal, right there. Nothing else need be said.

I mean, other than "and you bitches CLEARLY need to get laid -- by a dude or a chick, it don't much matter."

[retread]

Well done on the shape of the right hand.

[DeftwillP]

Less opposition if there was a flannel shirt Lego character wearing birks?

[ajax]

Just wait til the uproar from some "Family Focused" group happens when some little boy wants the girl legos.

This makes no sense. Do family focused groups protest the makers of pink tutus when their little boy wants to be a ballerina?

The only thing I've ever heard is people protesting the slutty "Bratz" dolls for girls, and I think that was in Australia. That wasn't about promoting gender normative models (feminist hate) vs. gender neutral/dykey models (feminist like). It was about sluttiness.

[Waterface]

Robots, gents, robots. Give me a 5'3" one that likes pooper, makes a mean sandwich, cleans like the browner skinned, and confines herself to my basement voluntarily out of pre-programmed fear of drunken reprisal. I realize Lego cannot accomplish this, but the Godless, apish Japs can.

[TOR]

Robots, gents, robots. Give me a 5'3" one that likes pooper, makes a mean sandwich, cleans like the browner skinned, and confines herself to my basement voluntarily out of pre-programmed fear of drunken reprisal. I realize Lego cannot accomplish this, but the Godless, apish Japs can.

Holy $#@!. Yard.

[ajax]

Legos Rule. As a child, I never got to go to Lego Land in SD (well really north of SD). When my niece and nephew got old enough (twins), I was totally pumped when I got to take them to Lego Land. It was awesome. I freaking still love Legos.
/csb

Whenever the question of "where do you want to go for vacation comes up" my kids never want to go anywhere except Legoland. Not Hawaii, not Disneyland/world, or anywhere else.

It is a very relaxing vacation though, especially if you stay at the Sheraton that's attached to it. You walk straight into Legoland from the hotel.

[BurntEyes]

Couldn't agree more with the Hardy Girls.

The picture below is absolutely disturbing. As you might expect, the lego girl is dolled-up and dressed in pink. If it isn't obvious, this wardrobe encourages promiscuity in young adolescent girls who would otherwise have a bright future. Furthermore, this young dissolute girl wields no power. She must stand aside and take orders from the man in charge. A smile on her face suggests that she accepts this inferior role to her male counterpart.

+rep

[MP5]

Look at these sour bitches

[Speedtrucker]

1,x,2,3

[ihateowho]

I don't see the problem with legos. They can be a great teaching tool for future women if used properly.

[cats2win]

I don't see the problem with legos. They can be a great teaching tool for future women if used properly.

+rep

[Scooter]

And what is to stop girls that want to play with regular legos from playing with them? Stupid whores.

4lego

[Sandman]

This is a stupid idea. How many lego kitchen sets can they possibly sell?

[pescado_rojo]

I'm torn...I mean, the right hand is solid, but the girl's tits are way too small.

[Monty86]

I'm torn...I mean, the right hand is solid, but the girl's tits are way too small.

I can't quit staring at her crotch.

[Homercles]

Hardy Girls Healthy Women

Do not Google image search this

[Dwight Schrute]

That "chic" on the right looks like William Dafoe's's twin sister.

[Texas_Straggler]

This is a stupid idea. How many lego kitchen sets can they possibly sell?

Give it a $#@! and they can target the confused gay market.

[washparkhorn]

[cats2win]

Megadeth/Motorhead concert re-enactment?

[washparkhorn]

Tor and fishstix?

[munchies]

Got my first set when I was 3. It was a little house. I'd build it, disassemble it, then rebuild it again. Over and over.

Ah.. good times.

Now I'm 24. And I still play with Legos. And they are all set up around my apartment for display.

CSB

[DemosZTV]

Face it bitches your only place in this house is the kitchen.

nerd story: got the White House lego set for Christmas last year. $#@!ing awesome. Yes, I am a grown man and I play with legos. Thinking about getting the Brandenburg Gate next; got some Star Wars storm troopers who need to walk through that bitch like conquering heroes.

[Pokoloco]

joyless. $#@!s.

[BurntEyes]

Won't repost it, but the Eddie Izard legos scenes are awesome.

[GSU&UT]

Won't repost it, but the Eddie Izard legos scenes are awesome.

I will, they are incredibly hilarious,

[Hank Kingsley]

So what the Hardy girls really want is the same set of legos marketed as one "for boys" and one "for girls"? Or do they prefer girls just play with the the normal legos already being sold?

Can we kill these people?

[DougO]

Just make it an androgynous figure and call them $#@!gos, and the same $#@!tards will do cartwheels celebrating a victory for equality and $#@!.

[DeftwillP]

Megadeth/Motorhead concert re-enactment?

No rawdogging it.

[orangemocha]

my daughter loves these sets, it does not make her into a dog groomer.

[orangeuahorn2]

Where's the lego sandwich?

Right next to the Lego scissoring

[MusChampion]

Stop the presses. Feminists are angry?

[NCAAFBALLROX]

Where's the lego sandwich?

Lock it up.

this

& that.

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to cats2win again.

[t-shirt fan]

Calling themselves feminists is just downright disingenuous.If they called themselves something like "Butch-Ass Bitches" maybe they'd be taken more seriously.It's an honesty thing.

[MusChampion]

Brown argues that what children want isn’t always what’s good for them, and she expected more from a company that prides itself in making a toy with educational value.

They want little girls to have the freedom to make choices so long as those choices are the ones they pre-approve.

[bamachine]

Dem bitches just mad cause the lego chicks are way hotter than them.