Legos, Female Tech Executives, 7-year-old girl

RantWoman has weird ideas about entertainment. For instance the other night, no RantWoman does not remember which date or which #hashtag found the tweet, RantWoman watched a whole string of women technology executives talk about their favorite toys as children. There was some kind of survey with the women's names attached to quotes. RantWoman practically could have sworn the thread was a #Lego ad; more than half the women mentioned Legos and / or playing with Legos with their parents and siblings.

RantWoman has SERIOUS Lego envy after the fact. RantWoman remembers being THRILLED anytime the Rant Family visited children who had Legos. Okay, RantWoman admits that immediately heading straight for the Legos is not the most socially elegant way to be a guest. What to say? This is RantWoman! RantWoman might digress to wonder why RantWoman's passion about Legos never got communicated in a way that would have resulted in Legos showing up for a birthday or Christmas. Sigh. Years of therapy perhaps? Or Legos just not being particularly among the RantParents' preferred memes?

RantWoman does not remember doing a gender census of the characters; RantWoman suspects if she had, the gender distribution would be about like the distribution in the item below. RantWoman thinks she probably was so happy just to have variation to play with that she basically just ignored the characters and concentrated on interesting things with simple shapes and bright colors. RantWoman is very glad that 7-year-olds today are more outspoken! A budding executive, perhaps.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/02/01/1274307/-Lego-Sexism-Pointed-out-in-Awesome-Letter-by-7-Year-Old-Girl?detail=email#


RantWOman admits if she wanted her opinion propagated it would probalby make more sense to contribute it to the vast flood of comments below the article. RantWoman does not even have the patience to try. Oh well.

But if someone has READ the comments, RantWoman wants to know whether anyone else employed strategies similar to RantWoman's about jsut ignoring the people and concentrating on the building blocks. Inquiring minds ... and all that.