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The Museum of Sciences of Great Britain has argued that the way in which children’s lay bricks fit reinforce gender and sexuality stereotypes.
The Science Museum in the United Kingdom Recently it has appeared in the headlines of its self -guided tour that tells “Queer communities, experiences and identities. This tour of “seeing things strangely” in the museum states that Lagos presses a “heteronormative” agenda.
“Like other connectors and fasteners, Lego bricks are often described in a way of gender,” The blog online For the self -guided tour. “The upper part of the brick with outstanding pins is masculine, the lower part of the brick with holes to receive the pins is feminine, and the process of the two sides that are being gathed is called mate.”
The tourist guide blog adds even more: “This is an example of applying a heteronormative language to topics not related to gender, sex and reproduction. It illustrates how heteronormativity (the idea that heterosexuality and male gender binary /female are the norm and everything that falls outside is unusual) shapes the way we talk about science, technology and the world in general. “
Forefront of a large number of Lego bricks, pleasanton, California, August 18, 2024. (Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images)
The telegraph, That this tour resurfaced, which seems to have begun in 2022, on Thursday, he reported: “No source is provided for the supposed opinion that people consider that Lego is gender, or that sticking bricks together is called ‘mating'”.
Fiona McAnena, director of Defense of Sex Matters, burned the exhibition as “crazy.”
“The self -guided path of the Museum of Sciences in everything queer ‘is complete She is ridiculous. ” He told Telegraph. “Children who play with Lego do not need me to tell me that some people say that fitting Lego’s blocks together is ‘mating.’ People expect to be informed, educated and inspired when visiting the Science Museum, not having doubtful claims rooted in The forced gender ideology about them. “
LEGO also sells a LGBTQIA+ game called “Everyone is incredible” with Lego Minifiguras stopped in front of an rainbow, including the different colors of the LGBTQIA+ flag.
Lego store (CFOTO/FUTURE PUBLICATION THROUGH GETTY IMAGES)
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Matthew Ashton, design vice president of the Lego Group, designed him, and He explained that he did With Drag Queens, the black community and the transgender people in mind.
“He sends a powerful message, but it is also fun and peculiar and does not take it too seriously,” he said. “We have made sure to include black and brown colors to represent the wide diversity of all within the LGBTQIA+community. We have also added the pale blue, white and pink to support and adopt the trans community too. I put the drag queen Purple includes a clear wink to the fabulous side of the LGBTQIA+community.
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LEGO has also gotten into gender policy before. In 2021, the company issued a statement that expresses its concern that girls “are still retained by the rooted gender stereotypes of society as they age”, and has a long entry on its website on “how to eliminate bias from Gender can generate trust and creativity. “
Fox News Digital It has communicated both with the museum and the Lego company to comment and did not receive an immediate response.