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Re: Building equality one female minifig at a time.
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lugnet.dear-lego
Date: 
Thu, 28 Jun 2007 05:28:22 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, John Neal wrote:
   In lugnet.dear-lego, Dave Schuler wrote:

   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.

Or, as I mentioned earlier, just include multiple wigs. It’s cheaper, and skirts the gender issue completely. (sorry)(but not really)

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 including male and female wigs and male and female heads, and this would be even cheaper than including a whole second minifig, of course.

Dave!



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  Re: Building equality one female minifig at a time.
 
(...) I bought a Doctor's Car (7902) for a friend's daughter's birthday and took along a female hair piece which I gave to her along with the set. Voila! Instant female. Would that really have negatively affected TLC's bottom line to include that (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
  Re: Building equality one female minifig at a time.
 
(...) I don't know how I feel about including a decapitated woman's head in every LEGO set. Doesn't seem to send the right message about gender equality. -Lenny (17 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)

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  Re: Building equality one female minifig at a time.
 
(...) Or, as I mentioned earlier, just include multiple wigs. It's cheaper, and skirts the gender issue completely. (sorry)(but not really) JOHN (17 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)

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