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They're not "Minifigs," they're "Lego Men." Even the female ones. I feel very strongly about this.

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Also, they’ve sucked ever since they stopped having just basic smiley faces.

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pastabatman@lemmy.world
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Compromise: Minimen

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Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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Also they’ve sucked ever since they stopped having basic smiley faces

Well now you’re just trolling, sir. The faces used for the Legoredo (western) sets are amazing. I particularly like the grinning Mexican with gold teeth. I call him Sanchez.

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Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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I don’t know why I have to keep explaining this.

There are girl Lego Men and boy Lego Men.

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🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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I was so enraged by the face thing, I didn’t even read that part lol

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dvoraqs@lemmy.world
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Why not Lego person instead of Lego man?

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Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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I don’t understand the question. There are girl Lego Men and boy Lego Men.

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dvoraqs@lemmy.world
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Sure, that’s true, but using Lego boys and Lego girls and just Lego people in general works too and is simpler, right?

I’m sure explaining that “Man is more like human in this case and not a gender or sex” is fun sometimes but ideas are evolving with more people and eventually it will just look too much like “Man is dogwhistle for subjugating women under men by calling them men”.

Is this bad connotation that more people will see over time worth holding onto the word Man as meaning everybody when we could just evolve our usage of language?

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dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
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I agree with you, and thus have to downvote?

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Akasazh@feddit.nl
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As someone who will go to any length for a pun, certainly if it’s a physical one, my fig jam will be more tasty due to this change

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Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOP
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I believe you mean men jam.

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Akasazh@feddit.nl
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I didn’t, but now I do

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