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    Re: More sexism from Lego (Was Re: 2000.2 Catalogue now out :) —David Drew
   "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)
   
        Re: More sexism from Lego (Was Re: 2000.2 Catalogue now out :) —Deidre Rushton Brumby
   (...) <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)
   
        Re: More sexism from Lego (Was Re: 2000.2 Catalogue now out :) —Rachel Kingston
      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)
   
        Re: More sexism from Lego (Was Re: 2000.2 Catalogue now out :) —Eric Joslin
   (...) 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 :) —Benjamin Whytcross
   (...) 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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