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Subject: 
More sexism from Lego (Was Re: 2000.2 Catalogue now out :)
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Thu, 10 Aug 2000 14:48:13 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Benjamin Whytcross writes:
Okay...It's starting to go up. [I'm slowly adding images :) ] {Usual warning
about 400K images...}

Thanks Ben (I'd almost given up on you!)

From the contents page:
"Lego Mindstorms offers boys the ultimate programming challenge"
"Football - Now boys can create their own football match"

What? You (Lego) mean that I can't get a Mindstorms set for Christmas
after all?  I thought I'd dealt with all the "you can't program computers
because you're a girl" stupidity 10+ years ago and now a respected toy company
that supposedly is encouraging children's development comes along and
spouts the same thing?

I guess I'll have to give my soccer sets away too.  Pity, I quite liked
them... guess I'll have to go and buy myself a little set with a fairy
instead.

Can't wait to see what pearls of wisdom the rest of the catalog has in
store.

Deidre (oh wait, I'm an adult, guess I shouldn't be playing with lego
at all...do they say that anywhere?!)
drb@tasmail.com



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  Re: More sexism from Lego (Was Re: 2000.2 Catalogue now out :)
 
"Deidre Rushton Brumby" <drb@tasmail.com> wrote in message news:Fz2zsD.Isp@lugnet.com... (...) company (...) Okay, I think that this isn't sexist at all. It's just a case of directed marketing, where the manufacturer pitches the sale towards the (...) (24 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.general)

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  Re: 2000.2 Catalogue now out :)
 
Okay...It's starting to go up. [I'm slowly adding images :) ] {Usual warning about 400K images...} I've put up the cover and a few inner pages, and hope to get the rest up tomorrow night and over the weekend. [it's taking too long to upload at the (...) (24 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.general)

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