Bleep Blap Bloop: a short film by Marcella Coad and Paul Constantakis.
A tad weighted in favour of the boys, what with the heavy emphasis on sci-fi and action.
Otherwise, PhD-grade research.
Tag Archives: gender
Behold: the new ‘average-guy’ friendly layout at a branch of Westside Market at the corner of 110th and Broadway, NYC. It’s actually an ‘end cap’ as opposed to a full aisle, but that’s part of its genius. CEO Ian Joskowitz tells the New York Post:
“If you’re going to have some guys over to watch a game, you can pretty much stand here — not move two feet — and get your beer, barbecue sauce, chips, whatever. It’s all right here!”
Condoms and jerky both within easy reach.
These people know what they’re at.
Minifig Babies: a buck each from Citizen Brick.
laughingsquid/thebrothersbrick
On a related tip, those adorable brick-sprogs are lucky to exist at all, given the relative dearth of female minifig characters, a point made by Maia Weinstock, who created the minifig gender infographic below.
Larger version here.
My Dear LEGO, You Are Part Of The Problem (Annals Of Spacetime)
Registering online with The Science Gallery (Pearse Street, Dublin).
Progressive!
Science Gallery
Thanks Sally Ann O’Sullivan
A LEGO ad from 1981 that’s been doing the rounds on Facebook lately – a nostalgic harking back to a time before the pink ‘n’ purple, cutesy, dumbed-down, gender stereotyping nonsense of LEGO Friends.
Oh LEGO, what have you done?