{"id":43570,"date":"2012-04-19T05:17:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T05:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/from-the-get-go-the-lego-friends-were-met-with-a\/"},"modified":"2012-04-19T05:17:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T05:17:25","slug":"from-the-get-go-the-lego-friends-were-met-with-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/from-the-get-go-the-lego-friends-were-met-with-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>From the get-go, the Lego Friends were met with a not-so-friendly response. The International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals called the line \u201cdevoid of imagination,\u201d and said it would \u201cpromote overt forms of sexism.\u201d US News offered \u201c5 Reasons Not to Buy Your Daughter Pink Legos.\u201d In Time, Ruth Davis Konigsburg bemoaned that \u201cWith its emphasis on physical appearance and limited career choices \u2014 [is it] really any different from that of Disney\u2019s princesses?\u201d She continued, noting how the Friends sets require the barest of construction, \u201cLEGO Friends doesn\u2019t give girls the same sense of mastery and accomplishment that it gives boys.\u201d So it\u2019s a hopeful sign that on Friday, members of SPARK (Sexualization Protest Action Resistance Knowledge) are sitting down for a meeting with Lego executives. The goal, as SPARK optimistically explains, is that \u201cWe want [Lego] to commit to dramatically increasing the female characters in their non-Friends lines. (The current numbers are pretty dismal.) We want them to consider female representation when choosing pre-existing material to adapt into new toys. And we want them to improve the Friends line.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/04\/17\/lego_tries_to_get_less_sexist\/singleton\/\">Lego tries to get less sexist &#8211; Salon.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the get-go, the Lego Friends were met with a not-so-friendly response. The International Association of Eating Disorder Professionals called the line \u201cdevoid of imagination,\u201d and said it would \u201cpromote overt forms of sexism.\u201d US News offered \u201c5 Reasons Not to Buy Your Daughter Pink Legos.\u201d In Time, Ruth Davis Konigsburg bemoaned that \u201cWith its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1537],"class_list":["post-43570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-critical-toys","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-bkK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}