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elz ([personal profile] elz) wrote2010-01-13 04:16 pm

The opposite of progress

How LEGO advertised toys for girls in 1981

How LEGO advertises toys for girls in 2010

(I saw the first ad on Gizmodo, I think, a few months ago - it's adorable.)

Elsewhere on the internet, you can vote to make Barbie a computer engineer.
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[personal profile] lian 2010-01-13 09:58 pm (UTC)(link)
how much do I love the vintage ad? awww.

the othe rjust makes me really sad :( I was buying Playmobil off eBay a while back and was flabbergasted to find a "for girls" ghetto section. Dude...Playmobil??? That's like Lego -- it's freaking gender neutral by design! ..or so I had thought :(((