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Lego Target Girls: I’m Pink, Therefore I’m Span?!

http://wiredinsider.tumblr.com/post/15512204284/lego-for-girls-sexist-stupid-or-super

Wired sums it up pretty well: LEGO FOR GIRLS: SEXIST, STUPID, OR SUPER?

I don’t think girls need pink or purple to build Lego cities.  Why segregate girls and push them to beauty shops, baking cakes, and other stereotypes?

  1. joliebonnette said: My Erector Set and Lincoln Logs never came in pink and they worked just fine for me. :-p
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  4. lucydrigby said: When I saw the commercial for this, I was so upset. Just go down the toy asiles for girls and still all you see are things to “play house, be a diva, etc” when is it going to change? Girls can be super heroes,scientists, whatever they want to be!
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  6. mallowtree reblogged this from missrep and added:
    always have so if I had the option of buying pink Lego when I was a kid I would have loved it. So what they maybe...
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