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Re: The Lego Group will attempt to stop some "brickfilms"
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Fri, 21 Dec 2001 02:17:34 GMT
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"David \"Fuzzy\" Gregory" <david.gregory@student.oc.edu> writes:
Eduardo,
        I agree with you that people should not make gay minifigs.  I just
didn't like the vulgar language you used to express your thoughts.

There is nothing wrong with making gay minifigs, any more than there
is with making heterosexual minifigs.  Sexual content may be
inappropriate for kids, but a pair of gay minifigs doing non-sexual
things (like simply living together, or raising an adopted minifig
kid, etc.) is perfectly appropriate for people of all ages.

It's bad enough that there is such a lack of racial and gender
diversity among minifigs, we don't have to compound that by
discriminating by sexual orientation as well!

--Bill.

--
William R Ward            bill@wards.net          http://www.wards.net/~bill/
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     If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.



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(...) I disagree. To me, the Lego minifig as always been aracial. Yes, it tends to have the physical characteristics of a caucasian, but it is not hard to take the same skin tone and change the features and come up with a black guy. (I think this (...) (23 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)

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Eduardo, I agree with you that people should not make gay minifigs. I just didn't like the vulgar language you used to express your thoughts. Fuzzy (23 years ago, 21-Dec-01, to lugnet.mediawatch)

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