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   TriptychTwinsRidesAgain (triptychtwinsridesagain@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 02:07:24 JST TriptychTwinsRidesAgain
   I hope whoever wrote this steps on several pieces
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     Flick ?? (flick@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 02:07:23 JST Flick ??

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     @jmakesart @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain Apparently they’re “gendered” because in order to stick them together you have to put the outie bit of one brick into the innie bit of another…..

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     Jerrica makes art (jmakesart@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 02:07:24 JST Jerrica makes art

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     @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain Ummm... there are sets that are marketed towards girls, but you... have free will and don't have to view them as "girls only sets"? Aside from that, lego has been one of the most gender neutral toys in the world.
     
     File this under "everything is transphobia" and "curators had no good ideas."
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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 02:09:21 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @Flick @jmakesart @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain Why didn't I see it before? Did each brick consent to being attached to another? Lego is rape culture. 😜
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     Flick ?? (flick@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 02:09:52 JST Flick ??

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     https://archive.ph/ONLIc

     The tour, devised by a Gender and Sexuality Network at the museum, also claims in the “Seeing Things Queerly” guide that Lego adds credence to the view that there are only two genders.

     This is because people supposedly describe Lego bricks as having male or female parts that are made to “mate” with each other.

     This is “heteronormative”, the guide states, which is the idea that “heterosexuality and the male/female gender binary are the norm and everything that falls outside is unusual”.

     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”.

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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 02:10:18 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @jmakesart @polarisera @HebrideanHecate @Flick @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain Every day I read things, then file them under *things I wish I didn't know.*
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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 02:10:19 JST HebrideanHecate

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     @Flick @jmakesart @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain Nope, never have, and people get paid to come up with this shit?!

     Boiling in oil time again.

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     @HebrideanHecate @Flick @jmakesart @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain Queering

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     @polarisera @HebrideanHecate @Flick @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain What a terrible day to be literate.
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     KeepTakingTheSoma (keeptakingthesoma@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 02:13:41 JST KeepTakingTheSoma

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     @Flick @jmakesart @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain How wonderful to have a big important grown-up job like this one. *The Network* isn't an entity (I hope) but a collection of people. Let's have their names. I'll start at the top.
     https://www.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/about-us/director-and-group-executive#:~:text=SIR%20IAN%20BLATCHFORD%2C%20DIRECTOR,Science%20Museum%20from%20December%202010.
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     @polarisera reposted your post (polarisera@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 02:15:34 JST @polarisera reposted your post

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     @Flick @jmakesart @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain The history of trying to girlie up "boy" toys has always been a failure, all the way back to Lionel trains. If a girl wants toy trains, she doesn't want pink trains. If a girl wants to play with robotic kits, she doesn't want fairy princess tea robotics. This only sets her further apart, making her feel like the boys are still getting something she's not allowed to have.

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     HebrideanHecate (hebrideanhecate@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 02:19:50 JST HebrideanHecate

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     @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain What the hell are these people snorting.

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     @polarisera reposted your post (polarisera@spinster.xyz)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 07:15:34 JST @polarisera reposted your post

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     @KeepTakingTheSoma @Flick @jmakesart @TriptychTwinsRidesAgain Well, usaid.gov has shut-down search (geewiz). But I tried searching "Gender and Sexuality Network" for US grants, and nothing. So this is on you.

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