Is Lego Anti L G B T?

mushroom25 | 15:50 Thu 06th Feb 2025 | ChatterBank

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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/06/lego-can-be-anti-lgbt-says-science-museum/ ;

apparently, Lego is "heteronormative". I cannot for the life of me understand how LGBT Lego might work if it cannot "mate".

.....anybody?

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wolf63

your link doesn't work, maybe this one will

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/06/lego-can-be-anti-lgbt-says-science-museum/

wolf63

behind the paywall - https://archive.ph/c40WN

barry1010

"The Science Museum guide claims that people think “the top of the brick with sticking out pins is male, the bottom of the brick with holes to receive the pins is female, and the process of the two sides being put together is called mating”."

Nope, I never thought that although I do not that cables and connectors have male and female ends. I'm trying to think of suitable alternative terms - dominant and subservient? Insert and receptacle?

barry1010

But but but....each brick has both parts, is both male and female, using their terms. The LGBT???+ should be embracing Lego.

jackthehat

It won't be the LGB worrying their little heads about this....

albaqwerty

Isn't lego more hermaphrodite or even intranet.

Personally, I've never once in my 60 odd years given a thought to logo's gender. What about sticklebricks?

nailedit

Stop the world, I want to get off...

naomi24

Who'd have thought? In fact who'd have even thought about something like that. It's quite sad really.

Vagus

We have 100s and 100s of £s worth of Lego, from the stuff we bought for our children years ago, buckets and buckets of bricks, technical sets all in their boxes with instructions, and now the huge technical vehicles my OH has enjoyed building over recent years, latest being last week which was a Lamborghini.
For anyone to suggest what's being suggested is comlete poppycock. Lego is Lego, a huge learning tool for girls and boys, it's learning without being taught or realising they're learning. And fun. Dear me...