After the recent scandal over LEGO Friends, I am excited to report that I am in the process of working with a LEGO “fanatic,” David Pickett, on a series of posts about gender and the history of LEGO. In the meantime, as a teaser, I wanted to offer you two LEGO ads that were from the same campaign as the one making its semi-viral way around the internet (1980-1982). As with the original, these are evidence that advertising doesn’t have to reproduce the idea of “opposite sexes”:
Thanks to Moose Greebles and his Photostream.
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Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.
