Mamas, don't let let your babies grow up to be building engineers

[tofty]

You know what I believe? That sooner or later, we have to take responsibility for our issues and our mistakes. Sure, my life was molded by the adults who raised me, but at some point I became an adult capable of making my own decisions and running my own life, and my every decision may have been informed by every moment of my childhood and

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[venivincere]

You're a grown-up, with a grown-up income, and that's SCADS more money than an allowance. Go buy the whole effing store of them, and a giant, wooden toy chest to store them all in.

LEGO was my favorite thing to play with. The tinted clear ones were my favorite, and the windows. They all belonged to my brother, but since I was the oldest and we all liked playing with them, I exercised my right as bitchy oldest sister to claim they were ALL OF OURS. (And in the end, my sister ended up with them. She's 41 and she still has them, including her LEGO phone!)

[lookfar]

You def need a lego set. I have an awesome marble roll set that works with duplo that I bought for myself cuz I always wanted one.

I wonder if the Legos have been pinked up to make the parents feel better about them, the way dolls had to be called action figures so they wouldn't make your boy gay.

[stasia]

I wonder if the Legos have been pinked up to make the parents feel better about them, the way dolls had to be called action figures so they wouldn't make your boy gay.

No. It's an entirely new set of legos, all pink, purple or pale pale teal, with differently sized figures (not the standard mini-fig shapes) which won't fit with the other sets. It's appalling and offensive.

Stasia

[laurelwood]

I think you should go buy an extravagant Lego set AND I think you should post pictures of it and whatever you create with it. I can only imagine that anything YOU make with Legos has got to be pretty spectacular. What the heck- buy yourself one of those awesome Lego tables and install it in your living room. THIS is what being a grownup is all about.

Before you get too involved in building that space station or catacombs or whatever, though, could you come to our house and help Zoe build a marble run for science class? With "only materials found around the house"? WE ARE NOT GOOD AT THIS AND YOU WOULD BE FANTASTIC. Please. I beg you.

[somniesperus]

Girlie Legos? Ugh. That's just, ick. Yes, stop reading articles. NEVER READ. IT ONLY LEADS TO PAIN, DOES READING.

[leestone]

Synchronicity, man! :O I didn't get to read this post till noon today, so all that stuff we discussed yesterday about my anarchically-bent nanny fam and their willingness to drop "masculine" modes of dress/play into their girls' routines? Total coincidence. But we clearly agree: Gender tracking blows. It blows so hardcore. Whatever else I was subjected to, that was one handicap my parents spared me, in my blue room with my A/V equipment and magic set and comic books and...well. I wish your folks had been less programmed to think that way. :/ Why, why do we do this to our children. When I imagine what they could be if we weren't so busy limiting their perceptions of themselves EVERY SECOND of every day...