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Anita Sarkeesian has a great couple of videos on Lego's transition from advertising like this, to advertising in a heavily gendered way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrmRxGLn0Bk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe65EGkB9kA



Yeah she has hit a very simple scheme to create her videos: pick some selection that has an arbitrary bias of her choice. Claim on video that "all of x" has said bias. (Another way to describe it would be "anecdotal evidence").

So in a video she would show only gendered Lego, omitting all the non-gendered Lego. Or she shows only video games with scantily clad women, omitting the context (might be portrayed as despicable to mistreat a woman in the video game, but taken out of context you may only see that a women is mistreated in the game), and omitting the zillions of video games that have nothing to do with women or gender at all. That way she "proves" that Lego is sexist and video games are sexist, and I don't know what else (haven't watched all her drivel).

People apparently believe anything that is presented on film.


That person is irrelevant to the matter discussed here.




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