to be MAD about bloody Lego Friends airport, where the pilot is a MAN.

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Got Lego Catalogue today. Looking through at all the exciting and colourful stuff for boys. Got to the Lego Friends page. Looking at the nice plane, check the figures.........

FLIGHT ATTENDANT SANDRA and PILOT DAVID. WTAF! Why is the pilot a bloke?!

Did no one at Lego has the wit to say 'errr women can be pilots'?

AIBU to be seriously unimpressed by this? Makes me bloody cross.

stole

My point was there is a difference between a T-rex (which a child can decide, in their imaginations, is male or female), and a model figure which is explicitly male.

Anyway, glad I caused amusement.

I'm not screaming at anybody, nor am I bullying anyone.
I just take exception to someone posting drivel.

And if you don't like my posts report them.

Thank you fromparis, some people are just a bit rude I suppose. My parents were very gender specific and had a fantastic relationship due to both appreciating their differences, they enhanced each others lives rather than fighting about it. This is where my mindset comes from.

Once again thanks fromparis hope they're "hot pink" ones.

If you think I'm "screaming" at you or bullying youCrusts report my posts.

I however stand by everything I have said.

crustsaway, where on earth did I mention culture? Why the attack on me and the quote marks around a word I didn't use?

I simply pointed out out the problem with suggesting that it's innate that boys like certain things, girls like different things, men and women want to study different things and do different jobs, et al.

Because the gender 'differences' in these things are by no means universal, and the difference in what are seen as gender-specific toys in different countries undetmines the idea that girls like some stuff, boys like different stuff because their brains are naturally wired that way.

It's a common argument you hear in discussions of why girls don't tend to choose STEM subjects, and completely ignores the fact that the same behaviour is not seen in girls in numerous other countrues, suggesting a broader role for socialisation rather than an innate sex-linked trait.

Since you've asked, I've lived in a number of different countries. But I didn't think we were sharing irrelevant personal details about ourselves on this thread?

Hovis

But my point was that there's no reason that the flight attendant couldn't sit in the pilots seat, same as the T-Rex.

Lego aimed at 'girls' is not new. They brought out a range of furniture sets back in the mid 1970s, pretty much everything you needed to fill out a house. I had a kitchen, child's bedroom (complete with bunk beds) and wanted the living room and bathroom but finances never stretched that far. I had to make do with looking at the catalogue.

Posting drivel? who the bloody hell do you think you are chipped? Superior? what on earth gave you that idea.

Here we go, evidence, factual, statistically based. Look, this is a board where "people" are allowed an opinion without having to read a thousand "academic" papers. No one has the right to call people stupid for their views either.

I have a view, I am a woman, I am a feminist due to wanting equal rights and thats it. I don't get bent out of shape about gender specific toys. I like the colour pink and most things girly. I like that Im a woman and I like that a man is big and burly and stronger bodily than me.

We do different things mostly in the workplace too.

Kill me!

I like to be treated with respect, but i find if you do that with others you get it back.

I'm certainly not getting bent out of shape - I might look unwomanly, sort of blocky and yellow and genderless, and if my DH has any self respect he'll fuck off and leave me for a more shapely model with a lollipop head. I would cry but that's not the way I'm moulded.

Well I wear pink now and again and heels and do my hair, have long nails too. Are you trying to say that I can't celebrate my idea of being a woman?

Why are you being nasty about women that have curves? why do they have lollipop heads?

Each to their own. I certainly wouldn't say derrogatory comments about you Eddie.

I did report

Again - just because you have a political disagreement don't get personal

And don't make comments such as "I pity your daughters ' either

Below the belt , can I say that

Well Eddie you made me LOL!

crustsaway
I'm a feminist too and completely agree with you.

Who's getting personal? Last time I looked lego friends have lollipop heads. I have no idea and don't give two shits about what anyone looks like on this thread.

We do different things mostly in the workplace too.

But still not willing to engagement the question of why that might be, and why it's different here than in many countries with similar economic profiles? Why, for example, just over 5% of Nritish engineering graduates are female - a fraction of many of our European neighbours?

Or whether there might be a link between the play we steer our children towards, the subjects they choose to study, and the jobs and careers they pursue?

In the interests of reasoned, respectful, evidence-based discussion rather than veiled insults about whatever you perceive my culture or nationality to be.

Another poster Eddie - and I have reported it - not you !

Eddie is this you on the right?

I love lego boobs

Engaging in aggressive questioning is not my bag Jassy. I said culture because you depicted that "British" children did this which in my mind had a certain cultural aspect to it.

Im on general opinion board here not hard line debate one.

I hate the lego friends programmes - horrendous juice bar obsessed pillockry. "Barbie - life in the dream house" on the other hand is the most wonderful series that ever existed and I could play it on loop all day.

Which of my questions did you perceive as aggressive? What are you describing as hardline debate?

You made a statement - I pointed out that it wasn't really true, or supportable by facts, otherwise you'd see international similarities.

If you're not interested in actually discussing the issue, it might be helpful to others to say so?

I do think being feminine for me is lovely. I embrace being female. I don't knock anyone for not. However, there are certain people that almost come a cross as being jealous, which is an awful trait to have.

A statement? it has to be supported by facts? Discussing an issue? I have an opinion, its that simple.