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Lego to launch first LGBTQ+ set – toy company's designer Matthew Ashton says he was inspired to support the community with rainbow-themed creation
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- Title
- Everyone Is Awesome: Lego to launch first LGBTQ+ set
- Authors
- Helen Russell
- Published
- May 20 2021
- Word count
- 596 words
I mean... kinda?
The pink, well known to be generally a "female" color, figurine has hair that is most prominent among women and the two blues, more so the light blue, has hair that is predominantly a male style.
While it's being marketed at LGBTQ+ friendly, it is still sticking to a troublesome racial aspect with the yellow figure.
The blue / white / pink are the trans flag colours, and so we finally have some canonically trans Lego minifigs.
Didn't even occur to me to think about separating the colors into the individual groups. Good catch!
That depends on which culture you're talking about, and even then it can vary over time. E.g. In Western cultures, the very idea of gender colour associations is actually a rather recent development, and funnily enough, was originally the opposite of what it is now. :P
See: Smithsonian Magazine - When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink?
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink#19th_century
p.s. For reference: Think Pink! (Funny Face, 1957)