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Re: Building equality one female minifig at a time.
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lugnet.dear-lego
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Fri, 29 Jun 2007 04:18:27 GMT
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Hey,
I highly agree. In my own theme-of-choice, castle, we get about one female fig
for every 50 male figs. Of course, part of that is due to the over-emphasis on
action and conflict, where most castle figs are knights and soldiers
(traditionally male roles), with only the occasional damsel in distress. If we
had more civilian sets we could have a greater gender balance - for example, the
great Dan Siskind Blacksmith shop, with a man and woman figs. Some themes are
better about gender. Harry Potter, for example. If you ignore the glut of
Harry figs in every set, you do get a better distribution. Some themes are
worse. For instance, even though Leia is certainly one of the main characters
from the original SW trilogy, she’s only been in 6 sets (3 of which were $100,
one $75, one $50, and one $30). From the prequels, poor Padme only shows up in
2 sets, though at the very least one of those is a cheap set. It’s not like I’m
saying they should scrape up minor characters like Shmi Skywalker to
artificially add in more women (though they gave us some obscure female Jedi,
but unfortunately stuck with a light-up-lightsaber), but certainly there could
have been a couple of other Padme sets.
I do like the idea of throwing spare hair and/or heads in sets to give gender
options, particularly in Town, where a lack of licensed characters or
historically-dictated gender roles (as in castle, pirate, western) leads to a
male dominance. A few years ago I was lucky enough to snag a couple of copies
of Women’s Soccer Team on sale to,
at the time, double my supply of female hair (including my first blond hair).
If you look at that pic you’ll see that three of the figs have gender-neutral
heads, so you don’t always have to have overly gaudy makeup to imply a woman.
Bruce
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| (...) You missed one, but I'm not entirely sure being included in the only $500 set ever produced will really help her stats that much... (...) Ah, but one of those sets includes the other, less expensive set, making her presence in the smaller set (...) (17 years ago, 29-Jun-07, to lugnet.dear-lego, FTX)
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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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