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The Science Museum guide claims that people think “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”.
No source is provided for the alleged view that people consider Lego to be gendered, or that sticking bricks together is called “mating”.
Because they just made it up.
Boy, wait until they find out that tradesmen routinely refer to “male” and “female” wire connections, plumbing parts, and other equipment. A complete tear-down of the engineering field will no doubt be demanded.
In the early days of laptops, it was common to call, plugs and outlets, male and female, respectively. Sometimes the parts didn’t work together, as when you had a printer with a female end and a computer also with a female end. In this case, you had to buy a little adapter called a gender changer.
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