The Most Pointlessly Gendered Products

Essemd · 2014-03-26T16:29:26+00:00

The wrist thingy is actually not pointless, because the average hand and wrist size differs for men and women.

oysterme · 2014-03-26T17:24:40+00:00

The dog thing is fucking ridiculous.

unclefisty · 2014-03-26T16:08:00+00:00

I see much ado about nothing.

ConorPF · 2014-03-26T19:28:13+00:00

I'm pretty sure this one is just a brand, not gendered. Then again I don't know French so I don't know what the bags actually say, it just looks like a brand to me.

M4Strings · 2014-03-26T16:44:15+00:00

Did it occur to anyone that perhaps the "man tissues" aren't for tears or a runny nose?

rogerwatersbitch · 2014-03-26T18:03:33+00:00

So the most pointlessly gendered ideology is complaining about pointlessly gendered products?

WhiteThrone · 2014-03-26T19:34:39+00:00

Maybe the 'Princess Egg' will, if incubated, hatch a tiny little princess ... and the other egg will hatch into a ... is that a pirate ?

J/K

Thorrtun · 2014-03-26T16:42:11+00:00

The egg boxes says "Pirate eggs" and "Princess eggs". Nowhere were there talk about gender.

She were the one who inferred the traditional gender roles here.

mirazatha · 2014-03-26T18:58:40+00:00

ok, so companies have jumped on a bandwagon and nedlessly labeled things. its hardly the first time, when i was young and the whole "anti caffeine" kick took off root beer companies labeled their drinks "new and improved caffeine free", even though the root beers never had caffeine to start with. its just marketing departments adding meaningless labels in an attempt to make themselves look good

2014-03-26T19:10:09+00:00

http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2014/01/the-agonies-of-the-left-are-not-to-be-laughed-at.html?cid=6a00d83451675669e201a3fbde29dd970b#comment-6a00d83451675669e201a3fbde29dd970b

I did like Ellen’s take on the Lady Pen issue.

Heh. Yes, it’s a silly product and will presumably disappear unless lots of women feel the need for what they regard as a feminine pen. A concept that, I grant you, is perhaps a little curious. What struck me, though, was Ellen’s need to pad this small joke in lame and antiquated boilerplate, much of which - say, unequal pay - is simply inaccurate and misleading. (See, for example, Tim Worstall on this.) Her opening line is also a tad tendentious. She says, sarcastically, “I saw something that made me think we still have a little way to go [in terms of gender equality].” Taken literally, what on Earth might she mean? That for equality to be achieved to her satisfaction, silly products like gendered pens should cease to be? Who gets decide on such things if not the marketplace? Can women not make up their own minds as to how absurd or desirable a thing is?

http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2014/01/the-agonies-of-the-left-are-not-to-be-laughed-at.html?cid=6a00d83451675669e201a51080a3ed970c#comment-6a00d83451675669e201a51080a3ed970c

I like me some man crisps. I was eating a packet of polar bear and powertools flavoured man crisps last night when the wife became upset.

"Do you have to eat those in bed?" she asked.

Turns out I do. I have no idea how I put up with that woman.

Anyway, apart from man crisps I also like man-sized tissues, my manly 4x4 car (with amusing rubber testicles on the tow hitch, and the music of Melissa Manchester.

I'm so manly I once got into a fist fight with a peacock at Warwick Castle. Technically the peacock won and I can never go back there or the RSPCA will prosecute, but I did get a good handful of his tail feathers before he flogged me so I count that as a moral victory for man over beast.

So it's a good thing that crisp makers and whatnot sell products to meet manly needs, but why not also cater to feminists? I have some suggestions:

Girl Crisps in the following flavours: passive-aggressive, trinkets 'n' bonbons, and topless

Lady Laptops - like normal laptops, but with a little vanity mirror attached and preloaded with recipies and pictures of kittens

A car that automatically touches up your makeup when stopped at red lights

A body pillow shaped like a man for lonely feminists to cuddle up to - comes in Gerard Butler, Antonio Banderas, and a slimline Benedict Cumberbatch model for single beds

Come to think of it, the problem the feminist movement has is that it needs an ideas man like me to be in charge. We'd soon cut through all the pointless gabbing and overcome the Patriarchy.

skinnybignose · 2014-03-26T19:53:33+00:00

I always thought that the mansize Keenex was hinting to the idea that it'll take your load when having a wank ;)

2014-03-26T20:58:11+00:00

At Walgreens they sell hot pink "women's" earplugs. It cracks me up every time

Bla34112 · 2014-03-26T19:27:17+00:00

Aye, kinda pointless.

plasmatorture · 2014-03-26T19:39:56+00:00

Jesus I hate the Internet. A feministing page with a few pictures pulled from another websites with a few more pictures apparently pulled from a pinterest collection.

ThePigmanAgain · 2014-03-26T22:13:36+00:00

Ironically, the article itself is pretty pointless. On the other hand, it can be used as evidence that feminists have so little to whine about that even eggs in a pink package are seen as fair game hence it's not quite as useless as the usual feministing drivel.

Alopixgg · 2014-03-27T00:45:18+00:00

They're getting mad about all the wrong things. Companies treat women like morons with the crap they advertise to them, especially beauty stuff. Lots of pseudoscience, lots of pretty pictures, very little fact or substance. To the point where if something is marketed to women, I typically assume it's a bad product or deceptive in some way. Why don't they get mad about THAT.

rg57 · 2014-03-27T06:08:37+00:00

Well someone needs to explain to me what Dove Men+Care is.

All I want is a basic bar (that won't dry out my skin), basic shampoo for normal hair, and basic conditioner. No smells.

I don't want Men (well I do, but that's not what I'm looking for in shampoo). And I don't want Care. I want clean.

Where's Dove Simple+Clean?

sean_robinson132 · 2014-03-26T18:58:03+00:00

Please don't link to that site and give them hits. Post a screen cap or something else.

2014-03-27T09:38:26+00:00

Downvoted the the feminist troll for linking to Feministing.

NiceIce · 2014-03-27T04:51:22+00:00

They are basing their products by sex, not gender.

robesta · 2014-03-26T19:31:35+00:00

Is there a sub for men who actually like their own masculinity but wants equal representation under the law?

Title	The Most Pointlessly Gendered Products
Author	ugly_duck
Upvotes	20
Comments	57
Date	March 26, 2014 4:03 PM UTC (12 years ago)
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