Women of Computing

[Adrian Stoness]

Lego puts poly pocket to shame. I agree with urwife and thank her for her
work lobbying lego plz keep it up itsthe truly universal toy of everything

On Sat., Dec. 4, 2021, 5:24 p.m. Alan Perry via cctalk, <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> LEGO is not doing this. This is part of the LEGO Ideas program, ideas
> for LEGO sets submitted by the LEGO user community. Someone proposes a
> set to the community and, if it gets 10,000 votes from the community,
> LEGO will consider making an official set out of it. Other examples of
> LEGO Ideas sets are the Saturn V rocket and ISS.
>
>
> This set was likely inspired by another Ideas set that went through the
> process and became an official set -
> https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/women-of-nasa-21312
>
>
> LEGO itself has been a bit behind the curve on including female minifigs
> in their sets. My wife is active in the AFOL (Adult Fans Of LEGO)
> community. She has been lobbying LEGO for more female figures for much
> of her life, partly because LEGO was considered a "boys'" toy when we
> were growing up. (We were born at the beginning of Gen X FWIW.)
>
>
> alan
>
>
> On 12/4/21 12:09 PM, Brielle via cctalk wrote:
> > See, if it had been presented like that, it would likely have not
> elicited the same response.
> >
> > It’s sad, but I understand the reason why they are doing it.  Lego has
> always been a bit progressive - even going as far as in commercials that
> girls can play with legos too.
> >
> > Unfortunately, the ones that throw the term ‘woke’ around like that tend
> to have pretty strong feelings about a “woman’s place in society”.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> >> On Dec 4, 2021, at 12:55 PM, newsgroups at micromuseum.co.uk wrote:
> >>
> >> On the contrary I consider it implicit that they played an equal role
> - and the need to make toys to indicate it is somewhat sad.
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> On Behalf Of Brielle via
> cctalk
> >> Sent: 04 December 2021 19:53
> >> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> >> Subject: Re: Women of Computing
> >>
> >> Using the term ‘woke’ these days is a great way to render any point you
> are trying to make moot.  Great way to make people people not take you
> seriously.
> >>
> >> He may as well have just come out and said, “It triggers me and I don’t
> like having to acknowledge that women exist in the field of computer
> history.”
> >>
> >> — Brie
> >>
> >>> On Dec 4, 2021, at 12:43 PM, Jason Howe via cctalk <
> cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I'm curious what your definition of 'woke' is, because it seems
> grossly misapplied in this instance.
> >>>
> >>> --Jason
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>> On 12/4/21 10:20, Chris Long via cctalk wrote:
> >>>> Great.....not.
> >>>>
> >>>> Why do we need woke Lego?
> >>
>