As if you needed another reason to like them:The new "LEGO Friends" rolled out in December featuring LadyFigs, curvier takfs on the traditional boxy LEGO men. Construction sets include a hot tub, a splash pool, a beauty parlor, an outdoor bakery and a "cool convertible," as well as an inventor's workshop.But the SPARK Movement objects to the "LadyFigs," the female version of the little figures who man the spaceships, trucks and forts children create. "Ladyfigs" are somewhat anatomically correct, which hypersexualizes girls, according to the group."They have little breasts and they have fancy hair," the organization's executive director, Dana Edell, told FoxNews.com. "And it just disturbs us that this is the image that they want girls to see."Edell also objects to what she calls stereotyping of preferred pastimes for girls."What it's doing is telling girls that this is what's important to you," Edell said of the beauty parlor and hot tub sets. "Girls aren't building space shuttles, they're getting their nails done."Since when do feminists care about whether or not something "hypersexualizes" girls? I fail to see how showing female LEGO characters doing traditionally feminine things is somehow "hypersexualizing" them. Aren't feminists all for girls showing off their sexuality? Wasn't that the whole point, in their minds, of the sexual revolution, to be as promiscuous as you want to be? And now that LEGOs are coming out with LEGOs for girls, they're up in arms over it because it doesn't show girls kicking ass and building high-tech gadgets. News flash, morons, they don't want to do those things! Nobody cares if a girl can build a space shuttle, it's not something that matters to us, it's not a turn-on, what is a turn-on is a woman that is sweet, affectionate, takes care of herself, and is not an intolerable wench. LEGOs seems to get that, although I expect them to cave to the pressure and either pull the line or come out with a LEGO female warrior set soon."I understand that they're offended by the limited, old-fashioned way in which LEGO has feminized the new line -- with traditional feminine characters and colors -- but they should embrace the fact that LEGO is providing new choices for families and children," said Nicole Ciandella, whose blog, Free-MarketFeminism.com, regularly takes on issues like gender, politics and economics."SPARK seems to oppose any expression of traditional, old-fashioned femininity, but why? Shouldn't parents have the option of purchasing toys that express traditional masculinity, traditional femininity, and everything in between?"That's because they're good little fascists that can't stand seeing anyone deviate from the Narrative. LEGO decides to make a traditional set? Sexist! That can't be tolerated, we have to sign a petition to get them to change, instead of, you know, "not buying them". What these cretins have a problem with is people making "unacceptable" decisions, specifically, traditional ones. Tradition is the great enemy of feminism because it hearkens back to a time when the sexes were actually happy with each other and not constantly reversing roles in an everlasting maelstrom of confusion. Nothing is certain or stable other than the perpetual cycle of "challenging societal norms". The words are like nails on a chalkboard! Today, women have to be great builders and scientists in order for the Kultur to value them, even though most really don't want to be those things and are not capable of doing them. Men want to do great things and be tough, but the Kultur is telling them that they're sexist perverts ready to beat/molest someone to death or oppress women, so they have to be weak little dishrags, eager to submit. Whether feminists are conscious of it or not, these things have a way of making the sexes utterly miserable when we're not allowed to be what's right. There's no room for anything normal in feminism, everything has to be reversed, corrupted, or twisted before it's any use to them. If you're like me, you loved LEGOs as a kid. I still have about a million pieces in a box somewhere, and I can't wait to give them to my future kids someday. The urge to build something out of them is faint, but it's still there. Those were the good ol' days, and I do miss them.
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