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Re: Building equality one female minifig at a time.
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Thu, 28 Jun 2007 03:57:32 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Dave Schuler wrote:
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And if TLG is concerned that a one-figure set wouldn’t
sell if it “only” had a female minifig, then why not just make it a two-figure
set? Realistically it should add more than, say, fifty cents to the price,
and it would more or less completely satisfy the concerns of gender-based
under-representation.
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Or, as I mentioned earlier, just include multiple wigs. It’s cheaper, and
skirts the gender issue completely. (sorry)(but not really)
JOHN
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) That's not a bad workaround, as long as the printing on the faces remains gender-neutral. One need look no further than the Adventurers theme to see the problem there. But now that you mention it, that problem could be headed off (!) by (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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| (...) Well of course you'd say all of that; you're a girl! Hardy har har. IMO you're right on the money with pretty much everything you wrote. I can think of no real justification for failing to include female minifigs in a much broader range of (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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