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In reply to the discussion: The Little Girl from the 1981 LEGO Ad is All Grown Up, and She’s Got Something to Say [View all]glowing
(12,233 posts)about "doing make-up" and looking "pretty", it also takes away any spark of creativity a child should have with their toys. Did Lego really need to teach the child, like a teacher giving instructions, how exactly to play and what exactly the story headline should be.
Seriously, do your make up to look pretty, tell a story about cake, follow up with the weather, oh and the boy character is going to film this because women wouldn't possibly interested or capable of handling a camera or editing or covering a news report completely different. The person at Lego designing this toy must be a Gox News watcher. There they literally do purposely hire and put on the air, women who have a tendency to be blonde, look a bit stepfordish, and sit on couches or behind glass desks so that men viewers will be drawn into watching lots of leg and pretty bobble heads regurgitate talking points and lies. I'm not sure that I've seen any Fox woman, besides Gretta and guests, where anything but short skirts/ dresses with tight tops. No pant suits for this crowd.
It really bothers me that there are assigned colors for girl and boys. Little boys should be able to wear pink and purple and have toys in these shades without being called effiminite; likewise for little girls. Disney is one of the worst offenders of doing gender specific colors and toys... Even their character drawings for women and men are stereotypical. Pretty young gal, who normally needs rescuing, drawn with big wide eyes, normally white, with large breasts spilling out of whatever small costume they have picked, and with a small waste. The little mermaid wore clam shells, and her hair was perfect even in the water. Belle from Beauty and the Beast didn't seem to own a dress that could contain her breasts, Jasmine from Aladdin had a basic strip of clothe across her breast area and lots of flat tummy shown. And then they take these characters and create "kid's costumes" for little girls to wear.
On the other side of the play spectrum, it is frowned upon for little boys to want to play with a baby doll, push around a grocery cart, play "house", play with Barbie's. When I was growing up in the 80's, my playmates were my sister and my boy cousin. We would play with barbies, cabbage patches, collect garbage pail cards, play with matchboxes, thinks trucks, regular unisex Legos, etc. We all had just as much fun playing with "boys toys" as our cousin had playing "house" with the Baby dolls. Best was when we combined play and had Barbie crashing out of a tonka truck or using the Legos to build houses and garages for our match box toys. AND some of our best imaginative play came about when we would use a large boxes to make up forts or had an old set of pots/ pans etc to play with (we would make mud pies or use the collanders or sives to pretend we were archeologist on a dig).