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May 16, 2012 12:50 am PDT
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/gQR08n1m2js/history-of-gendering-in-lego.html
History of gendering in Lego
On Sociological Images, David Pickett is tracing the history of gendering in Lego toys, from the early efforts to produce girl-sets and boy-sets before 1988, to the full-blown gendering watershed attending the release of the Pirates minifigs, which had definite "girl" and "boy" characters. It all went downhill from there, too. He's got two parts [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/gQR08n1m2js/history-of-gendering-in-lego.html
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