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[theweaselking]

Headline of the day: Christ, Not Even Jurassic World's Dinosaur Toys Are Allowed to Be Female

But yeah: Despite all the dinosaurs in Jurassic World being explicitly female, all the dino *toys* are explicitly male.

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[rose-cat.livejournal.com]

explicitly male.

That I had to see, so I clicked the link. I was disappointed :(

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Not ANATOMICALLY.

(Or maybe anatomically - sexing fictional lizardbirds is not in my standard skillset)

[skington.livejournal.com]

An intriguing formulation. It implies you can swap out your standard skillset for something else if you need to, like Neo suddenly knowing kung-fu except that e.g. as part of the shift he no longer knows how to cook, or how to debug a Windows operating system.

[rose-cat.livejournal.com]

I KNEW THAT.

Although, the idea isn't as far out as you might think. (http://news.discovery.com/animals/dinosaurs-gender-males-females-110602.htm)

Also, neither birds nor reptiles have externalized genitalia, so it seems that dinosaurs are unlikely to have had them. I guess they could have had them internally, though, as some birds and reptiles do. Soft-tissue fossils are extremely rare, but maybe someday a dino penis will show up?

If a particular species of bird (think duck, if you dare) or reptile (snakes have two) does have a penis, you can obviously get a look at it under the, er, right conditions. With reptiles, at least, you may be able to evert the organ yourself (without hurting the animal).

Maybe if Hasbro had designed the toys so that you could do that...no, maybe not such a good idea. (Think anyone's checked for that?)

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

...sexing fictional lizardbirds is not in my standard skillset

But oh we do try so hard.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

But.... Aaaargh this goes against common sense, canon of the show AND basic gender equality - it fails on so many levels

[rose-cat.livejournal.com]

Well, the company is Hasbro...

[drcuriosity]

I was about to type exactly this, then scrolled down and read that you'd saved me the trouble :-)

[rose-cat.livejournal.com]

Glad to be of service :)

(Although I'm sure I'm not the only one who thought of it.)