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| (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 10-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.general)
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| "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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| (...) <snipped> I think we may have to agree to disagree on this :) Though I shan't form further opinions until I've seen the rest of the catalog, at the point I was looking last night there were only the first 3 or so pages. The programming (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.general)
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| HEAR HEAR!!!!!! I couldn't agree more Dierdre, this is the kind of thing that really gets my hackles up. Put it this way, if Mindstorms is perhaps the kind of thing that parents would usually not consider for a girl ( speaking of the "average" (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.general)
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| (...) I snipped a bunch of stuff for brevity, but I just wanted to say that I had a peek at the catalogue before Deidre even posted yesterday, and I saw the line about how boys could play with the soccer- err, I mean, football sets, and it (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.general)
| | | | | Re: More sexism from Lego (Was Re: 2000.2 Catalogue now out :)
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| (...) Well, after their intermediate catalogue down here: (URL) wasn't expecting anything great from them. Also, if you look at the green box on page 16, it's talking about GIRLS and starting to use PRIMO...Absolutely no mention of boys. Benjamin (...) (24 years ago, 11-Aug-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.org.au, lugnet.general)
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