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Re: Building equality one female minifig at a time.
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Thu, 28 Jun 2007 06:48:55 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, C. L. GunningCook wrote:
> Building equality one female minifig at a time. (My apologies in advance for
> those of you that have already heard this rant.)
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This gets me thinking, what is it that defines a 'female' minifig? Personally,
when I populate a scene I try to get a good gender balance and there are a
variety of things that define 'female'
A definitively 'female' torso
A definitively 'female' face - usually with lipstick laden lips
or
A definitively 'female' hair piece.
This can work okay for 'civilians' but so many of the minifigs produced are
workers types defined by the uniform and the uniform is typically gender neutral
and requires a hat of some sort. Which leaves you with the option of using a
lipstick laden faces to define a female minifig.
Personally, I don't like the lip stick laden minifigs as I don't know that many
women that wear makeup like that.
Are there suggestions for making female minifigs using the currently available
pieces? Or alternately, are you suggesting LEGO make some new
pieces/heads/faces and put more of them in their sets. And if so, what pieces
would you have them make?
This is an interesting topic and I'm curious to hear more from people -
especially the women out there.
This discussion topic reminds me a little of the difference beween Donald and
Daisy Duck. Donald basically looks like a duck. But to define Daisdy Duck as
female, she gets a big pink or purple bow on her head and big time eye makeup.
Is that how 'female' should be portrayed? Big bows in the hair and makeup?
Thank you for bringing up the topic and I too, would like to see more female
minifigs, but I'm not sure how best to do it - even when working with the pieces
I already have.
Cheers,
Ben Fleskes
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| (...) But are there any? I've got long hair, and for my personal minifig I carved down a Qui-Gon hair (ostensibly one of the more "female" looking hairs in the line, except that it was designed specifically for a very recognizable male character). (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) I too hate the lipstick laden minifig heads. I really don't know any women that wear that much makeup. For my female figs, I always try use the gender neutral heads. However, I have been impressed with the latest Harry Potter figs for (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| Building equality one female minifig at a time. (My apologies in advance for those of you that have already heard this rant.) Dear Lego, I have always been impressed with TLC's ability to provide quality products as well as sustaining valuable input (...) (17 years ago, 27-Jun-07, to lugnet.dear-lego) !!
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