Twitter users mock the 'pointlessly gendered' products for MEN | Dail…

tehwankingwalruses · 2016-05-24T16:01:42+00:00

Whats funny is now that people aren't getting married and men have checked out of relationships, they have to spend their own money on necessities rather than the woman making these purchases. Companies are now trying to market directly to men, because thats how they have to capture the revenue.

rimper · 2016-05-24T13:10:34+00:00

Two words...Pink razors.

privilegechecked85 · 2016-05-24T13:27:42+00:00

Somebody get them to a safe place, stat!

mochacola · 2016-05-24T13:45:30+00:00

Aren't those products extremely sexist? Imagine toothpaste that claims 'maximum freshness' that's specially for women, or cotton swabs as 'women's ultimate beauty secret'.

mrbears · 2016-05-24T14:29:43+00:00

I assure you, dogs very much have a concept of gender

Rethgil · 2016-05-24T21:07:11+00:00

So from this we can deduct that feminists are also blind to ads targeting themselves and also have no sense of irony? Every single product out there aimed at women does it by appealing to gender related issues totally overtly. Often by portraying men as idiots, sex objects or bad guys. Guess THATS acceptable. No fragile feminist egos there!

Mik3ze · 2016-05-24T22:42:11+00:00

Of all the dumb things feminist have bitched about over the years this is one of the dumbest.

2016-05-24T14:14:17+00:00

http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2014/01/the-agonies-of-the-left-are-not-to-be-laughed-at.html

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.

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?

biscuitgravy · 2016-05-24T15:04:24+00:00

"Will the future be as embarrassed of gender as we are of flared jeans".

Lol, I love how they have deluded themselves into thinking that it will ever be plausible to make genders (which don't exist) useless. Like we're somehow going to "teach" a woman to have penis. Why they think humanity developed biological differences to spite the LGTBQ community, I'll never know. But "gendered" products will be necessary as long as they rely on men to create a society advanced enough to complain about shit like this.

aokusman · 2016-05-24T15:18:10+00:00

Who is Twitter?

scruffist · 2016-05-24T21:45:25+00:00

Anyone else start reading that, see 2.39 euros ($2.66) price and go "Damn that's a good deal on Colgate toothpaste!"? It's $4 where I live.

cum_penibus · 2016-05-24T22:12:43+00:00

The vast majority of floor space in drug-stores filled with products aimed at women? That's oppressive and patronising! How dare you? Also, how am I supposed to be able to afford all these entirely essential products? Pink tax!!

A tiny corner with a few shelves of items aimed at men? Hurr durr look at me I'm a man I'm stupid I need pointlessly gendered products.

HotDealsInTexas · 2016-05-25T02:08:42+00:00

Remember, kids: gendered marketing towards women is the fault of the men in corporate marketing departments, and the companies selling those products should be mocked and shamed. Gendered marketing towards men is the fault of the male consumers, and men who buy those products should be mocked and shamed.

Ain't equality great?

nzoydwheeler · 2016-05-25T03:56:08+00:00

This idea has already been roundly satirised (thanks Australia!)

Anyway, it seems to me like the women mocking those gendered products are actually on our side. The very concept of "Man Grenade Bath Plaster" offends me beyond reason.

TheDude41 · 2016-05-25T04:16:31+00:00

Nothing compared to the ridiculously overpriced products "for women" that women buy all the time.

BetterBadIdeas · 2016-05-25T18:20:12+00:00

I'm sorry. I can't hear you over the OCEAN OF PINK that is the shampoo aisle while I try to find my damn head and shoulders.

intensely_human · 2016-05-24T13:51:26+00:00

Downvoted for not being relevant at all to MR issues.

Can we talk about the draft? Or circumcision? How about witch hunt rape trials where men go to prison without evidence? We should focus on places where men's rights are being violated.

There is no right not to have people on twitter make fun of needlessly gendered products. They're right, by the way. Needlessly-gendered products are ridiculous.

Title	Twitter users mock the 'pointlessly gendered' products for MEN \| Dail…
Author	Lumberingfeather
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Date	May 24, 2016 1:08 PM UTC (10 years ago)
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