There is no end to bizarre claims by the woke community regarding genders. In the latest such incident of woke insanity, the Science Museum in London has claimed that the Legos, the popular plastic construction toys, are anti-LGBT. The reason for this claim is that Legos have ‘male’ and ‘female’ parts, and therefore reinforces the idea that heterosexuality is the norm.
According to an exclusive report by the Times, this has been included in the description of Lego bricks displayed at the museum in a self-guided museum tour on “stories of queer communities, experiences and identities”. The tour has been conceptualised by a Gender and Sexuality Network at the museum.
The “Seeing Things Queerly” guide in the tour states that Lego bricks are anti-LGBT because they reinforce the idea that heterosexuality is the norm because they have male or female parts that are made to “mate” with each other. It states that this is “heteronormative”, which is the idea that “heterosexuality and the male/female gender binary are the norm and everything that falls outside is unusual”.
The Lego section in the “Seeing Things Queerly” page on the museum’s website states, “Lego bricks are often described in a gendered way. The top of the brick with sticking out pins is male, the bottom of the brick with holes to receive the pins is female, and the process of the two sides being put together is called mating.”
It further adds, “This is an example of applying heteronormative language to topics unrelated to gender, sex and reproduction. It illustrates how heteronormativity (the idea that heterosexuality and the male/female gender binary are the norm and everything that falls outside is unusual) shapes the way we speak about science, technology, and the world in general.”
Lego is a line of plastic construction toys made by the Lego company consisting of interlocking bricks that can be assembled and reassembled in countless ways. The pieces connect through a stud-and-tube design, making them easy to stack and separate. Legos are used for play, education, and even engineering prototypes.
Notably, in most mechanical and electrical connections where a pin of a component is inserted into a hole of another component, the pin is called the male part and the hole is called the female part. In such cases, male part means that it is a pin or similar structure that goes into the female part which is a hole with same shape and size of the pin, so that it forms a perfect fit.
Such use of male-female does not refer to gender, it just identifies the two parts of a connection.
