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Re: Building equality one female minifig at a time.
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Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:18:42 GMT
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In lugnet.dear-lego, Ben Fleskes wrote:
> 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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> <snip>
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> 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.
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> Personally, I don't like the lip stick laden minifigs as I don't know that many
> women that wear makeup like that.
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
Hermione.
<http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItemPic.asp?M=hp083 Hermione Fig>
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> 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.
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> Is that how 'female' should be portrayed? Big bows in the hair and makeup?
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> Cheers,
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> Ben Fleskes
As I mentioned above, the new Hermione figs are much less "gaudy" than the
traditional "tramped-out" minifig heads. Now we just need to get Lego to start
including female figs in all sets (Police, Construction, Fire, Trains,
Transportation, Castle, Exo-Force, etc.). I love the idea of including a male
and female head and hairpiece in each set. Makes total sense to me!
-Dave
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| (...) They already beat Hermione a few years ago with the Studios redhead 2-sider face, which features a more obvious, but far more girly lipstick design (and only a faint bit of detailing on the eyes to suggest anything was applied there): (URL) (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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| (...) <snip> 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 (...) (17 years ago, 28-Jun-07, to lugnet.dear-lego)
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