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[Max White]

How can you tell which Lego are for boys and which are for girls? Is this a recent thing?

All lego is for boys unless it is pink and has boobs, then it is both for girls and sexist.
Because anything non gender specific is for boys. Patriarchy.

[Sirus]

How can you tell which Lego are for boys and which are for girls? Is this a recent thing?

All lego is for boys unless it is pink and has boobs, then it is both for girls and sexist.
Because anything non gender specific is for boys. Patriarchy.

...So is this an actual thing or are you just making jokes? :|

[Vector]

Read for yourself.

[Neonivek]

Read for yourself.

It just goes to show that there is no such thing as unisex toys... because you have to add a pink skirt

I mean how else are girls supposed to know it is for them unless it is pink, about girls, and has a dream house?

*reads more of the article*

Ohhh my gawd.... The reason for this product line existing is hilarious.

[Sirus]

Read for yourself.

THANK YOU!

...well, this is kinda stupid. Can't girls and boys just play with normal Lego? My sister and I did. Hell, she built freaking Hogwarts.

[Neonivek]

Read for yourself.

THANK YOU!

...well, this is kinda stupid. Can't girls and boys just play with normal Lego? My sister and I did. Hell, she built freaking Hogwarts.

If you read the article it is because Legos

A) Isn't realistic enough
and
B) Doesn't contain storylines for its characters.

In otherwords the reason boys and girls cannot play with normal legos is because it isn't Barbie

[Sirus]

I'd say that the endless sarcasm gets in the way of holding a reasonable discussion, but I just realized that this would probably fit better in the Progressive Thread or something.

[Glowcat]

How can you tell which Lego are for boys and which are for girls? Is this a recent thing?

All lego is for boys unless it is pink and has boobs, then it is both for girls and sexist.
Because anything non gender specific is for boys. Patriarchy.

Are you... picking a fight about feminism in a furry thread? 

[Neonivek]

How can you tell which Lego are for boys and which are for girls? Is this a recent thing?

All lego is for boys unless it is pink and has boobs, then it is both for girls and sexist.
Because anything non gender specific is for boys. Patriarchy.

Are you... picking a fight about feminism in a furry thread? 

Now THAT is an interesting subject especially since furries tend to reinforce gender roles or that wishfullillingly break them.

[Max White]

...So is this an actual thing or are you just making jokes? :|

Both. Barbie Lego is a legit thing, and I am joking.

[Vattic]

Ohhh my gawd.... The reason for this product line existing is hilarious.

I'm much older than my sister, but that didn't stop us playing with lego together. When looking through the catalogue she did complain that there wasn't any "girly" sets on the market. While you could argue that her desire was illegitimate and the result of the sexist state of toys I'd find it difficult to deny her access to similar toys.

The only real difference between them is that the anime fandom as a whole (in large part guided by the anime industry, I'd wager) finally managed to seize a hold of their image and rehabilitate their appearance a bit, and distance themselves from their worst element. Basically, anime successfully managed to go mainstream. Other than that, they're practically identical. It wouldn't exactly be a stretch of the imagination to see furry having taken control of their message and anime instead becoming the kicking bag of the internet - most of the slurs and disgust with either are pretty interchangeable.

Personally I think it was high quality anime films being taken seriously by respected critics and the like that helped anime fandom go mainstream. If the likes of Ebert are taking it seriously more people will give it a go. The problem I see with furries going mainstream by the same route as anime fandom is that there isn't any media specifically associated with furries (unless I am mistaken). While anything anime in style influences people's opinions of anime fandom things with anthropomorphic animals aren't automatically going to influence people's opinion of furries.

[Neonivek]

When looking through the catalogue she did complain that there wasn't any "girly" sets on the market. While you could argue that her desire was illegitimate and the result of the sexist state of toys I'd find it difficult to deny her access to similar toys

It isn't that. By all means I can picture "girly" legos.

It is that instead of marketing legos with girly themes they are marketing girly legos.

Mind you as a child I had a toy collection and the one thing you had trouble getting as a child are female toys (just female characters). So I stole my sisters

[Mech#4]

When looking through the catalogue she did complain that there wasn't any "girly" sets on the market. While you could argue that her desire was illegitimate and the result of the sexist state of toys I'd find it difficult to deny her access to similar toys

It isn't that. By all means I can picture "girly" legos.

It is that instead of marketing legos with girly themes they are marketing girly legos.

Mind you as a child I had a toy collection and the one thing you had trouble getting as a child are female toys (just female characters). So I stole my sisters

Ooh, I remember some legos that had a more girly theme to them. It was called... Paradise or something. It was a whole bunch of beach resort themed legos. Mind you that was mid 90's so might be a while ago.

Edit: Was close, it was called "Paradisa".

[Tuck_Lion]

What if I want /man/ legos? What then, Hasbro? BRO?

[Leafsnail]

For the same reason we have an Anime thread?

Well in the anime thread you can talk about anime.  Here you can talk about one minor aspect of character design I guess