There’s even an online petition against Lego!
Here’s more from Adler’s radio show.
h/t Matt from Mississauga
25 Replies to “Politically Correct Nitwits Attack Lego”
When the caliph rules there will be no toys, as there is no fun in Islam. I thought there would be more serious issues out there to get all worked up about.
mid island mike
The underlying cause which the three are groping for is the disaster called post-modernism. What someone thinks or says, and the logic behind it, no longer matters. Post-modernism is all about who says it and what their motives are. Carried one step further, appearance allows motive to be implied. Colour something pink, in other words, implies a bias towards a sexist view of women and their roles. McLuhan’s famous medium is the message was the same kind of drivel.
Post-modernism is great for the modern lazy academic in the social sciences. A deep understanding of things becomes unnecessary. It’s sufficient merely to note its appearance and then come to all sorts of implications about what it supposedly means.
Symbology has completely replaced content. And this is the real core reason why our society is disintegrating.
We’ve forgotten how to think.
There’s a huge leap from someone’s young daughter wanting to share her dad’s interest in woodworking, to buying her a pink hammer. That’s just stupidity.
Buying pink Lego for gender’s sake, is just as inane.
I expect that we will buying some pink and some blue and lots of gender neutral Lego for the grand rug rats for birthdays and for next Christmas.
The girls and boys that like to play with Lego a lot do not give a rat’s petuty what colour it is. Our son still builds with Lego as do all his four children.
Some screwballs just have to make an issue of it, just like so much else in our society today. A pox on all of them.
A household full of Lego. Didn’t see daughters touching it much. As an experienced parent, my observation is that sex roles come pre-wired.
The wife and I were in Bellingham over the weekend, while in the evil corporate induction center (oops WalMart) we saw a complete home fixit set (hammer,pliers, screw driver, etc) all in pink.
She laughed and thought it was cute
at one of the grandson’s show and tell the other day. he was showing off his light sabres. two little girls asked the questions .
are there pink light sabres? he says no he didnt think so .
and the second question , if there were pink light sabres would he want one ? no , no way.
he is four
Always loved playing with….THE PINK….always.
I went and bought four boxes of the “Friends” LEGO today. One of the “friends” actually gets to work in a science lab doing experiments with a microscope for cripe sake! My thought was that I wished they had something similar for the boys! So, yes, there are *gasp* pink bricks, but they’re still promoting the idea that girls should be interested in math & science. Not a bad thing, in my books.
cgh at January 24, 2012 7:37 PM
A superb cryptic post.
Let’s face it, we live in hyper-politicized society. Everything is political. I recently encountered organic free-trade FROG-FRIENDLY coffee. No really. I’d heard of bird-friendly and shade grown, but this was a new one. So much to worry about eh?
Recall, when Larry Summers at Harvard tentatively and cautiously offered that perhaps (?) men are different from women, some women faculty apparently ran out of the room on the verge of vomiting. He was forced to resign.
A good friend (he’s 80) told me today that Lego can forget it; the colour won’t matter; “little girls don’t build stuff … boys do that.” He mentioned that Orianna Fallaci (sp?) opined that were if left to women, we’d be living in grass huts but with really nice curtains. (I thought this was Kate’s).
My wife loves her pink handgun, so what’s the problem?
She could have bought any one in any style she wanted, but was attracted to the pink one sitting on the self the most.
Why is it so hard to focus on what they are talking about? What are they talking about? Who cares…:)
Perhaps I’ve just been disconnected from the MSM too long as I have no idea what this issue is about? Have always liked Lego and, if I had a Lego set would play with it now. Actually much preferred Meccano sets as it was possible to make way cooler toys with a Meccano set. Was looking at one for myself before Christmas but the price put me off as well as the use of plastic (I’m a Meccano purist).
From my childhood I recall that girls had little interest in playing with Meccano or Lego. The other thing I find puzzling is that both women in the video say they were wearing pink, but the woman on the right is dressed in purple. Pink seems to be associated with women (in more ways than one) and pink pistols are well liked by women. I prefer my guns in black, but given a choice between a pink pistol or no pistol, I wouldn’t care too much about the color.
Nothing a bucket full of prozack can’t cure for these wingnuts. As Pink Floyd says in their video: “leave those kids alone”. Lucky insanity isn’t catching.
Loki
A buddy bought a pink rifle for his wife….
However in one of those instances when seconds count….I would use it.
BTW I don’t fancy the camoed stuff either….
I wish they had these when I was younger. But I still played with my brothers lego’s. Then again, I probably wasn’t the typical girl either, since I was more tomboyish, and played in my grandfathers woodshop and learned carpentry before I got bored of it. Ah boredom my greatest weakness…
If people don’t want them, then don’t buy them. Isn’t it great how unfettered capitalism has the ability to correct itself?
My stepdaughter KT has a pink hammer, screwdriver, drill etc. so that her partner Big D won’t “borrow” them.
To me the great affront is the huge section on women’s beauty products in nearly all drugstores. I would gladly join a campaign to abolish those!
Our daughter participated in a legos construction contest. Her brother won it overall. In University she was granted a Women in construction scholarship.
In her school poster where she was honored for her sports scholarships and her Women of Distinction scholarship, she said she enjoyed as a little girl playing legos with her daddy. Enjoy her work in Canada. She oversees Architectural engineering for all new large Walmart stores. She taught her husband how to skydive. She is so not focused on political correctness. She was recruited to replace a male who is retiring.
Our daughter participated in a legos construction contest. Her brother won it overall. In University she was granted a Women in construction scholarship.
In her school poster where she was honored for her sports scholarships and her Women of Distinction scholarship, she said she enjoyed as a little girl playing legos with her daddy. Enjoy her work in Canada. She oversees Architectural engineering for all new large Walmart stores. She taught her husband how to skydive. She is so not focused on political correctness. She was recruited to replace a male who is retiring.
When the caliph rules there will be no toys, as there is no fun in Islam. I thought there would be more serious issues out there to get all worked up about.
mid island mike
The underlying cause which the three are groping for is the disaster called post-modernism. What someone thinks or says, and the logic behind it, no longer matters. Post-modernism is all about who says it and what their motives are. Carried one step further, appearance allows motive to be implied. Colour something pink, in other words, implies a bias towards a sexist view of women and their roles. McLuhan’s famous medium is the message was the same kind of drivel.
Post-modernism is great for the modern lazy academic in the social sciences. A deep understanding of things becomes unnecessary. It’s sufficient merely to note its appearance and then come to all sorts of implications about what it supposedly means.
Symbology has completely replaced content. And this is the real core reason why our society is disintegrating.
We’ve forgotten how to think.
There’s a huge leap from someone’s young daughter wanting to share her dad’s interest in woodworking, to buying her a pink hammer. That’s just stupidity.
Buying pink Lego for gender’s sake, is just as inane.
I expect that we will buying some pink and some blue and lots of gender neutral Lego for the grand rug rats for birthdays and for next Christmas.
The girls and boys that like to play with Lego a lot do not give a rat’s petuty what colour it is. Our son still builds with Lego as do all his four children.
Some screwballs just have to make an issue of it, just like so much else in our society today. A pox on all of them.
A household full of Lego. Didn’t see daughters touching it much. As an experienced parent, my observation is that sex roles come pre-wired.
I like boobs.
I can’t take it!
ow that hurts. well not really
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16703574
The wife and I were in Bellingham over the weekend, while in the evil corporate induction center (oops WalMart) we saw a complete home fixit set (hammer,pliers, screw driver, etc) all in pink.
She laughed and thought it was cute
at one of the grandson’s show and tell the other day. he was showing off his light sabres. two little girls asked the questions .
are there pink light sabres? he says no he didnt think so .
and the second question , if there were pink light sabres would he want one ? no , no way.
he is four
Always loved playing with….THE PINK….always.
I went and bought four boxes of the “Friends” LEGO today. One of the “friends” actually gets to work in a science lab doing experiments with a microscope for cripe sake! My thought was that I wished they had something similar for the boys! So, yes, there are *gasp* pink bricks, but they’re still promoting the idea that girls should be interested in math & science. Not a bad thing, in my books.
cgh at January 24, 2012 7:37 PM
A superb cryptic post.
Let’s face it, we live in hyper-politicized society. Everything is political. I recently encountered organic free-trade FROG-FRIENDLY coffee. No really. I’d heard of bird-friendly and shade grown, but this was a new one. So much to worry about eh?
Recall, when Larry Summers at Harvard tentatively and cautiously offered that perhaps (?) men are different from women, some women faculty apparently ran out of the room on the verge of vomiting. He was forced to resign.
A good friend (he’s 80) told me today that Lego can forget it; the colour won’t matter; “little girls don’t build stuff … boys do that.” He mentioned that Orianna Fallaci (sp?) opined that were if left to women, we’d be living in grass huts but with really nice curtains. (I thought this was Kate’s).
My wife loves her pink handgun, so what’s the problem?
She could have bought any one in any style she wanted, but was attracted to the pink one sitting on the self the most.
Why is it so hard to focus on what they are talking about? What are they talking about? Who cares…:)
Perhaps I’ve just been disconnected from the MSM too long as I have no idea what this issue is about? Have always liked Lego and, if I had a Lego set would play with it now. Actually much preferred Meccano sets as it was possible to make way cooler toys with a Meccano set. Was looking at one for myself before Christmas but the price put me off as well as the use of plastic (I’m a Meccano purist).
From my childhood I recall that girls had little interest in playing with Meccano or Lego. The other thing I find puzzling is that both women in the video say they were wearing pink, but the woman on the right is dressed in purple. Pink seems to be associated with women (in more ways than one) and pink pistols are well liked by women. I prefer my guns in black, but given a choice between a pink pistol or no pistol, I wouldn’t care too much about the color.
Nothing a bucket full of prozack can’t cure for these wingnuts. As Pink Floyd says in their video: “leave those kids alone”. Lucky insanity isn’t catching.
Loki
A buddy bought a pink rifle for his wife….
However in one of those instances when seconds count….I would use it.
BTW I don’t fancy the camoed stuff either….
I wish they had these when I was younger. But I still played with my brothers lego’s. Then again, I probably wasn’t the typical girl either, since I was more tomboyish, and played in my grandfathers woodshop and learned carpentry before I got bored of it. Ah boredom my greatest weakness…
If people don’t want them, then don’t buy them. Isn’t it great how unfettered capitalism has the ability to correct itself?
My stepdaughter KT has a pink hammer, screwdriver, drill etc. so that her partner Big D won’t “borrow” them.
To me the great affront is the huge section on women’s beauty products in nearly all drugstores. I would gladly join a campaign to abolish those!
not politically correct to use BOY lego for this.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/story/2012/01/25/lego-balloon-space.html?cmp=rss
Our daughter participated in a legos construction contest. Her brother won it overall. In University she was granted a Women in construction scholarship.
In her school poster where she was honored for her sports scholarships and her Women of Distinction scholarship, she said she enjoyed as a little girl playing legos with her daddy. Enjoy her work in Canada. She oversees Architectural engineering for all new large Walmart stores. She taught her husband how to skydive. She is so not focused on political correctness. She was recruited to replace a male who is retiring.
Our daughter participated in a legos construction contest. Her brother won it overall. In University she was granted a Women in construction scholarship.
In her school poster where she was honored for her sports scholarships and her Women of Distinction scholarship, she said she enjoyed as a little girl playing legos with her daddy. Enjoy her work in Canada. She oversees Architectural engineering for all new large Walmart stores. She taught her husband how to skydive. She is so not focused on political correctness. She was recruited to replace a male who is retiring.