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I saw that, it's reeeaaally confusing. Why were they getting so defensive about it? Were they trying to deny it? Sheesh. The internet truly is amazing.

I don't know what specific thing you're referring to, but just in general what I've seen in the LEGO fandom, in other sites as well as this one, occasionally, leads me to believe some people in it are ignorant as to what a good gender ratio actually is. Just today I saw somebody say that Chima's gender ratio (of one female for every six males) was apparently "very good"--and that's even worse than Bionicle's was, at least for the first couple of years. So yeah, I imagine that discussion of Bionicle's gender ratio can get pretty dumb.

Sadly, nothing related to gender, or race, or nationality, or any of the various other things that divide the people of the world is an accepted fact in all corners of the internet. There are always going to be people who are wrong about those kinds of things. You can't let it get you down.

 

Though, to be fair, Chima's gender ratios ARE "very good" as far as most LEGO themes are concerned. Do they still need to improve? Of course! But compared to previous themes like Ninjago and even BIONICLE they strike me as a step in the right direction and a sign that the LEGO Group is learning.

 

I like that. I like seeing indications that people and companies can learn from their mistakes. Sometimes the learning comes in small steps, but I'm still happy to see that as long as they're steps in the right direction.

(Well, this is kind of off-topic, but: Chima really only does good with the amount of women in the theme when you look at the numbers--very, very few themes can boast 8 female characters in minifigures. As a percentage of the overall number however (~56 this summer) it definitely isn't any better than most themes with actual characters, which typically have smallish groups with one token female character. I wish Chima was getting better at this, but sadly the inclusion of females in Chima has been not only small, but static (with only 2 introduced every wave regardless of how large the group of characters is) and when they exist, they are extremely poorly distributed, with seven out of the eight being exclusive to whatever set they first appeared in--in most cases, a very expensive one, which renders most of them invisible to the casual consumer.)