Legos are a unique outlet for creativity that brought our generation to where we live today, unfortunately Legos also found a way to push gender stereotypes onto their anthropomorphic blocks while they were at it.  How the boundaries are put onto these block people is easy to understand, they create Lego sets which feature girls cooking, running a tour kiosk, and even shopping at a food market; whereas they feature boys as pirates, spacemen, superheros, supervillians, robots, cyborgs, dinosaurs, fantasy characters, construction workers, ninjas, and pet shop owners.  Something not so transparent is how these boundaries progress through our lives.  The toys put us into neat compartments letting toy companies label us as simply "boy" or "girl" essentially taking away our individualism.  The problem with these broad and generic labels is that it leaves kids out making them feel awkward and lonely only wanting a toy that they can relate to the way that everyone else seems to be relating to.  The toys we play with passive aggressively leave imprints on our behaviors, they teach us what is "normal" and what "isn't"; they teach us who to hate others, and in extreme cases: to hate ourselves.  

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To relate this on a personal level, one of the problems of the extreme masculinity placed in "boy's" toys is the way it dictates our identity to us as “MAN”.  The sinewed biceps and popping pecs of our superheros told us that someday that's who we would have to be, and anyone who didn't meet those standards was "weak" or a "girl" or other things too informal for this blog post.  The facade that is societal masculinity unfortunately has been environmentally conditioned in us since we were maybe two, it runs deep in our psyche and it breeds emotionally detached mannerisms within us from there.  The toys teach us a type of self-centeredness that perpetuates throughout our lives and unfortunately breeds fascism, hatred, misogyny, and contempt for anyone who would dare question the false masculinity we use unfortunately to cover up our tired, tired faces.  The problems that girls toys perpetuate are different, but equally potent and harmful.  It’s hard to say how we can as a society move on from these things, I think to desegregate ourselves from the mentally concrete dividers we’ve put up would be something extremely difficult, however, to do people need to educate themselves and realize that since before we could talk we’ve been programmed to act in ways that were out of our control from the beginning, and then from there decide to distance ourselves from the chains and shackles of gender boundaries.