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Themes that interest girls (was Re: check this out!)
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Mon, 9 Apr 2001 02:26:21 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.au, Kerry Raymond writes:
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> > Girls in particular seem much more interested in Town than all the "danger
> > and violence" themes.
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> Speak for yourself, girlie! :-) I like robotics, technics, star wars, and
> have a ship of bloodthirsty piratesses. I am definitely Town-light,
> Belville-challenged, and Paradisa-impaired. Indeed, most of the Townies I
> know are male.
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> What girls like tends to reflect what their parents etc choose to expose
> them to in early childhood IMHO. Thank goodness I got basic Lego at this
> impressionable age.
As a child I had Barbie and baby dolls, a tea-set, stuffed animals, Matchbox
cars, a train set, a racing bike set, a sandpit with a marvellous Tonka Dump
Truck (which I still treasure even though it's rusty (the truck not the
sandpit!)), swings and a bike. No particular genderisation there, I liked
them all, if anything I leant towards being a bit of a tomboy. I also had
basic Lego (not very much but enough to build what I liked to build). Care
to guess what I built with the Lego? Houses. Inside detail, outside
detail, gardens, the odd car, but that was to park in the garage of the
house. Had I had access to more Lego I would have built whole Towns.
Skylab and the first Space Shuttles absolutely fascinated me, but I never
once built a Lego spaceship as a child, it never occured to me, Lego was for
building houses (and that was entirely my own idea).
Despite building Lego Houses and dreaming of Lego townscapes, I grew into a
scientifically/technologically minded adult. I have a Science degree, I work
in IT, my ultimate life dream would be to work on the space program. I buy
a wide range of Lego, I've got a smattering of everything right from Primo
up to Mindstorms, including Belville. My favourite themes within Lego are
in order 1. Duplo Trains (extending into System) 2. Mindstorms and 3. Town.
(Everything else is pretty much bought for parts). If you extract the non
System from that list, you're left with: houses :)
My 5 year old son (who has also been raised in a non gender specific
environment and has everything from a dollhouse to trucks) also loves Town,
but for a different reason: car crashes, fires, breakdowns, collapsing
buildings, police chases, preferably all at once. I have a ball building
nice streetscapes and he has a ball trashing them enacting out some
emergency scenario. He also builds spaceships, I don't. My personal
experiences with Lego, seem to pan out in the wider community (as far as
children go). Girls ooh and aah over the landscape and buildings and move
people around, boys have a full scale catastrophe in full swing inside of a
minute or are building a death ray robot from outerspace.
In summary:
I agree with the comment that, in general, girls are more interested in
Townscapes when it comes to Lego, boys do seem to prefer emergencies and
other forms of violence, and force fed genderisation probably doesn't have
much to do with it. Neither gender seems to appreciate the dumb-downed
aspects of recent Lego sets, all of them want the detail no matter what they
build. And what you like to build with Lego as a child probably doesn't have
much to do with how you turn out as an adult.
Deidre
drb@tasmail.com
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 | | Re: Themes that interest girls (was Re: check this out!)
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| (...) Well, that doesn't surprise me. In my KFOL days (pre Dark Ages) I was undeniably a Townie. When all you own is brick bricks, roof tiles, doors, windows, trees and flags, it does tend to predispose you to building houses and other town (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
| | | Re: Themes that interest girls (was Re: check this out!)
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| (...) Actually, that would probably be quite true....Kerry. I know a lot of female Lego Enthusiasts really like the pirate line and the castle line... (...) To Deidre: this is my intention at this point...sure I have a large collection. (My mother (...) (24 years ago, 9-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| | Re: check this out! (the things ya do at work eh? :P)
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| (...) Speak for yourself, girlie! :-) I like robotics, technics, star wars, and have a ship of bloodthirsty piratesses. I am definitely Town-light, Belville-challenged, and Paradisa-impaired. Indeed, most of the Townies I know are male. What girls (...) (24 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.loc.au)
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