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People Are Sharing Examples Of Pointless Gendering And It Shows How Stupid It Can Be (50 Pics)
Here's a radical thought. Maybe men and women would get along better if companies and institutions stopped yelling about how different they are? I get it, everyone has their own opinion, and it's a sensitive topic but come on. Toilet paper for women? A cookbook for men? Some things are just absurd. And you can find them on the subreddit r/PointlesslyGendered. This online community is dedicated to collecting examples of the division between the two genders our society so desperately insists on, and over the years have gotten themselves quite a load. Here are some of the worst ones.
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Dinosaurs Are For Boys
The correct response towards anyone meddling in what is none of their business.
I Feel This Belongs Here
Gender-tailored marketing messages are fairly common, but research shows they can have the opposite effect and repel consumers, especially women. In fact, they often backfire to the point of dissuading women from choosing a product they would have considered if the company hadn't talked about their gender so much, a study by Harvard Business School found.
The reason for this lies in human nature. People tend to resist being categorized (or made to feel like they are unwillingly reduced to a single identity) particularly when the product they're being nudged toward evokes a stereotype about their gender.
Random Low Key Pic From 4chan
Damn You, Spaghetti Sauce. If Only I Had A Man Around! Dinner Is Ruined!
Gendering Eggs Now, Are We?
Suggesting that women will go crazy over a product wrapped in pink packaging just because some marketer assumes that all women love pink can come across as downright insulting, co-researcher Leslie K. John, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor at HBS, said.
"In a way, this project reminds me of my childhood," John explained. "When I was a kid, I had a babysitter who said, 'Leslie, your favorite color is pink.' She would put pink bows in my hair. Everything had to be pink. This project is partly a reaction against this feeling that just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I love pink! There's something very off-putting about feeling like you're being reduced to a single category of membership."
And It’s Only $49.99!
To be fair, a lot of women could buy one-for-all but don't and the variety for "male" body care grows.
Names Have A Gender?
To be fair, there are plenty of languages where names do have a gender.
What To Get My Niece For Christmas
If my aunt was here, she’d say ‘makeup’. I’m not even a girl, I was AFAB, she doesn’t know that though, and for t he past 3 Christmases and my birthdays, she’s only gave me makeup-
But where does this false notion come from? Why do companies keep trying to sell their products by emphasizing the buyer's gender? Well, the answer to this question might lie in one 2017 Pew Research Center survey.
It discovered that Americans think men and women are basically different in the way they express their feelings, their physical abilities, their personal interests, and their approach to parenting. But there is no public consensus on the origins of these differences.
Gatekeeping A Yellow Jacket, Among Other Normal Things
Shaming Elephants
"Male Doctor," "Male Chef, "Male Racecar Driver"
I think marketers know this. Maybe some of them just haven't realized that to have an opinion and to base your purchasing decision on it are two different things.
This applies to other aspects, not only gender. According to previous research, for example, even stereotypes that cast people in a positive light—such as Asians excel in math—can trigger a negative reaction from these groups.
Girls Don’t Have Ankles
ahhh i think thats worse than period pains *ow* and last time i checked... i have two ankles
Fellas, Is It Gay To Touch Your Face?
It's true, though. Holding your face together is the only thing preventing his XY-jaw from dragging along the floor, with his XY-knuckles. Plus, he has bonus nose-picking modality this way.
Sounds Very Mormon
True!
Cancer Isn't Gendered, Support Shouldn't Be Either
This Guy Gets It
In Estonian "Ta" (Or "Tema") Means Both "She" And "He", Google Translate Decides By Context
They are beautiful. They're nice. They're strong.... I think pluralising is better. It is beautiful is disrespectful.
That is the way English is moving towards. They is now being considered a singular gender-neutral pronoun these days
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Key lesson I got from my Estonian language teacher was - "Estonian indeed is a different language, the key is - there is no sex and no future." And this is how they live in Estonia, like a complete mad lads with no sex and no future :D
I had no idea that there are languages where is no sex! My native language, Czech, is literally the opposite. Every noun has a gender and you need to know it in order to use it in a sentence.
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Correction: He is beautiful. He's nice. She is smart. She is strong. She is the president. She is a doctor. He is a cleaner. He is a hairdresser. He is a teacher. She is an engineer. She decides. This needs to be done. Gender stereotypes are awful.
Okay before you jump the gun and claim Google is misogynistic, listen to this. Google translate is programmed to use machine learning in its translations. Not every translation is individually coded in. This means that it’s more likely to spit something out if that thing had been put in before, that’s also why sometimes you’ll get varied translations. It’s the global system as a whole that’s misogynistic, but you can’t use this as evidence of Google’s supposed misogyny. Note that I’m not saying Google isn’t misogynistic per se, I’m just saying this isn’t evidence.
I like using reverso.net because it automatically displays the reference text it is using for the translation when something might be ambiguous, this allows you to determine if the context is appropriate.
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Yep. It's not like you have a bunch of engineers in there deciding which is which. It's an AI that is deciding based on a bunch of information fed into it. It reflects what is predominant in the documents it sees.
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Same result in Hungarian: Ő szép. Ő kedves. Ő okos. Ő erős. Ő az elnök. Ő egy doktor. Ő egy takarító. Ő egy fodrász. Ő egy tanár. Ő egy mérnök. Ő dönt. -> She is beautiful. She is kind. He is clever. He is strong. He is the president. He's a doctor. She's a cleaner. She is a hairdresser. She is a teacher. He is an engineer. He decides. :(
Well, the Estonian, Hungarian and Finnish languages are related.
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Interesting... Someone needs to make Google aware of this. I would think that translation to "He/She is beautiful. She/He is nice. He's/She's smart. etc" would be an appropriate compromise.
No. I hate this more than anything. I can't even laugh at this. No word in the human language can ever describe how angry this makes me.
omg so girls can't be presidents, doctors, or engineers, and HE decides?! imma smack someone.
Fun fact: Estonia has a woman president since 2016, statistically more women with a university degree, etc, but hey.. he (including mr. Google) is the smart one still ;) (sarcasm)
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The French language have something similar, I remember when first learning French, I'd thought it was sexist.
Google Translate early on relied heavily on people using it to correct and set context. I was constantly asked to feedback on two Other Than English languages. So what you see there, is multiple people who talk Estonian adding their bias to the translator. It doesn't make it any sadder but adding some context.
This may suggest we will not have any AI driven apocalypse any time soon... or do we?
that's actually really sad..time for women to stand up for themselves there too
Interesti g. In Chinese "Ta" is also He or She, Him or Her. The written characters are different , at least in older style characters, but verbally the word is the same for both genders. You get the gender from context, or not if it is unimportant.
Interesting! "Ta" (first tone) also means he/she/it in Mandarin Chinese. While there's a difference in how they're written, there's no difference in how they're spoken. That linguistic coincidence aside, that translation is truly shady.
Just change english languange, that thing is just too complicated and out of date.
Actually, it is. Google uses machine learning, which means that 'she is beautiful' simply is more often correct, as is 'he is a teacher'. This is a symptom of the problem, Google translate is not the cause. Fix the cause, not the symptoms.
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When in 90% of the cases the (gender oriented) translation is in fact correct, it's not the machine's fault. Not saying that it's a good thing, but it's not the translator's fault, the issue lies elsewhere - there should be more Estonians talking about beautiful males and wise women.
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As a beautiful, nice, smart, strong, decisive female engineer, I find google translate beyond gross!
Man - I want the Estonian way of saying "ta" in Germany too. I hate our gendered language nowadays because it makes everything awkward
Because tech and most industry are staffed by guys and thus the misogyny is literally programmed into the systems that inform our world view
It’s much more likely that it’s machine learning picking up what people typically translate. The quality of something being programmed by men doesn’t automatically give it the quality of being misogynistic.
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I am Finnish, we have the same word for "She" and "He" I tested this out and everything that was originally made for men, Google translates to "He" even though it doesn't matter
Google translate should check out my exes. Swap the "He's" with "She's" and you have my dating history.
Men and women. This is almost certainly an example of machine learning gone awry.
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If they made it all "he" people would lose their s**t and making it "they" would be grammatically awkward as "they" is plural.
Same Items Inside... Hers Costs 30% More
Because That Is Totally How It Works
Apparently It’s Gay To See Now
Real men don't go out of their way for street signs, the street signs scarper out of the way.
This Is The Worst One I've Ever Seen
Girls Live On A Different Planet
Toothpaste For Men Only!
wtf i use that toothpaste and i use men's deodorent and its not to strong for my fragile feminine teeth or under arms this makes me so mad
Wait Until He Learns That Men Have Butt Cheeks Too
Pointlessly Gendered Shelter Caused Trans Student To Be Left Outside
Bureaucracy at its finest.....lol. Also, what a stupid shooter plan. "Look, there's a shooter! Quick! separate by genders!"
Accurate
Food Is Feminine
Pockets?!
I used to wear mens slacks for this reason and too many people thought it was a strange thing for me (female) to do
Men Can't Be Anorexic Apparently
No Bro It’s War Paint
Kinda contradicts the "You're a man you don't need a mirror" of nearby post.
Gender Appropriate "Fun"
Fruity Drinks Are Bomb
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir
Had To Share
Need I Say More
Because Sexualising Babies Is Okay...
Pointlessly Gendered Lit Sides
Low Testosterone Male Pink Tool Set
If This Ain’t The Truth
“Things To Say When You’re Staring At A Boy Trying To Think Of What To Say”
Fathering A Child? Sounds Pretty Girly To Me
having a designer bag doesn't make you afraid of not being masculine. Why do you think there are diaper bags with flowers and cute baby animals? Because the demographic they are trying to sell the diaper bag to like it.
Because Somehow Exercise And Dieting Can Be Gender Specific?
Found This Gem On Tumblr
Fellas, Is It
Green Is Man, Red Is Woman
Unclear whether this is gendering or just keeping a theme edit: Just realized these are different white people on unrelated album?movie? covers.
This Sign On The Door To Our Laundry Room
Pointlessly Gendered And Homophobic At The Same Time
Pink Bad For Rap
Loose Fit Perhaps
Which Brunch Are You: Man, Woman Or Waffle?
Same Price, Same Ingredients But You Get 5 Less In The "Woman's" Packet
That's why I buy a lot of "for males only" products. Check the price difference between razors for males or for females if you get a chance.
Now It's Food-Based!
And they all explode if you put em in the microwave (that's my new gender test. Stick em in the microwave on high for 30 secs. If they're still alive when you pull em out, THEN they can talk pronouns).
It Starts Early... My Antenatal Clinic Showing How Boys And Girls Kick Differently In The Womb
Yeah, right. And then you see your newborn and you can't tell whether it is a boy, a girl or a tiny alien.
Can’t Believe This Stuff Still Gets Upvoted
Both me (f32) and my mum (64) have been gaming hard since the quarantine began.
Nice Binoculars You Got There
Conform To Your Gender Roles!
Only Women Should Be Taught How To Read
Real Men Guess What They Look Like
Sit Like A Lady
Hell, I don't want anybody to sit like that, sit up straight, feet off the table!
Iced Or Hot?
Huh? So a guy can't drink iced coffee? And a woman can't drink hot coffee?
Should Have Given The Woman's Hand A Dress As Well Just To Make Sure
Fabletics Only Applies Their Military Discounts To Males. Females Are Not Eligible For The Military Discount
Err, can we also talk about the third legging business? Like, who the hell buys three-leg leggings? And she's trying to sell what is obviously a penis-warmer to someone called Jessica?
Must Be Manly Even While Sheet Masking
This is clearly for robbing banks with. No law-man's gonna git ya when your skin's as smooth as Nicholas Cage's acting.
I Don’t Even Know Where To Start
Wth What Is This
Well it IS true that women like to go to the bathroom together. Not in their homes but bars, nightclubs etc. I've had some of the best conversations in toilets.
Goodnight Everyone Except The Person Who Created This
Grabbed Some Toilet Paper While In A Rush, Came Home To Realize That My Boyfriend Won‘T Be Able To Use It
Boys Always Get The Coolest Stuff
I Flipped Through Both. They're The Exact Same Book
Well, if there's anywhere we should look to for a model of equity between males and females, it should be the Bible. Women were made to be property. But that's okay, so long as you marry them before you rape them.
Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire. Beauxbatons And Durmstrang Were Both Co-Ed Schools In The Books, But In The Film, Beauxbatons Was All Girls And Durmstrang Was All Boys, Because Apparently The French Are Feminine And The Bulgarians Are Masculine?
Or because the girls are self-sufficient with their 'batons' and the guys are angsty peasants who still can't deal with zippers.
Nail Polish Is Only For Girls
Istg This Is So Accurate
I feel like Ratatouille is the only movie with acurrate design regarding sex
This Is An Old Monopoly I Used To Play With With My Sister. Guess We Weren't Allowed To Do So
I'm A Bloke And I Definitely Don't Look For Half Of These Things
Why
My niece: a noise, wrapped in pink and glitter, with dirt and grass stains on it. She'll ask to be dressed up like a princess, with her hair french braided, and then wear rain boots because there are puddles to be jumped into.
Excuse Me What?
Because Only Girls Like Stars
This Card I Found At Walmart
I Can't With Gender Reveal Cakes
Finally I Can Grab Some Sexy Screwdrivers For An Absolute Bargain
S**t. I don't have a bod like that and I'm a 3-dimensional being. Guess I can't buy that tool set. What a bummer.
Oh F*** Off "Hair Ties For Men"
Ahhh The Two Genders, Lady And The
Garbage Can
Help Ladies, Yellow Is Unacceptable For My Infant Daughter!
The Way Men And Women's Clothing Is Advertised
What this actually says is 'We got some regular guys to try our sample sizes, and deliberately made sure that f@#$-to-buggery NOTHING we made would fit an actual woman-person.'
Apparently White And Black Means It's For Straight Guys
Cant Use Bathbombs Unless They Enhance My Manlyhood
Growing Up In A Conservative Christian Household Be Like
Sorry, but New International Version Boys sounds like a (very wordy) 90s boy band.
Fellas, Is It Girly To Have A Heart In Your Body?
But the female pelvis is larger and broader... I mean you know, childbirth and all that.
Fellas Don't Forget To Cover Your Megs
No Man Has Ever Been In A Red Lobster
Found On My Bfs Deodorant
There Are Two Genders, Princess And Kids
Back in the day if asked if you had children a proper response was x children, and x daughters.
Accentuates Your Femininity And Your Stupidity
What a moron this woman is. And anyone else, regardless of gender, who wore this s**t.
Sorry, Ladies
I'm mostly confused by the "drink" --- Is there men's tea non-drink available? Men's tea food? Men's tea shout?
Because Women Can't Hold The Big Tube?
This Shower Gel An Exchange Student Brought
Just In Case Your Macho Bravado Isn’t Proof Enough That You’re A Man
Non-medical grade and breathable is an accurate description of most male models too.
Sawdust Is Like Man Glitter
I Found The Counterpart For The Invisible Nail Polish
The Good Ol' Camo
Double Whammy
We Added Bows To Make Sure There’s Girls
but if their those star wars pple they dont know if its female male or non cause the suit hides it...
It's Exactly The Same Inflatable Crown
Astronaut Emojis On Android, Thankfully They've Marked Their Gender
Personally, I don’t see a problem here. First off, one has purple stripes and the other one blue stripes - it’s not like one has a pink bow on its helmet, THAT would be stupid. Second, even if it’s meant to imply gender, I definitely prefer a male and a female astronaut emoji over just a male one.
Just Why?
One might be more generic and one more specialized in women, unclear since there might be one for men too.
Pillows, They Feel Exactly The Same
From My Friend’s Snapchat
They're more likely gendered by size, rather than colour. I accidentally bought some men's masks and they're waaayyy too big for me.
Oh Yeah Be Manly Use A Man Fork!
The Measurements Are The Same
Really? From what I heard, boys' clothes often have a looser, more comfortable fit than girls'. Which results in problems trying to dress a rather slender boy in something non-pink because so much clothing is very explicitly gendered, too... (And vice versa: Finding something comfortable, robust for a girl is difficult, too.)
I Had No Idea That Clipping Your Nails Wasn’t Manly Enough
This, I do get. Most men have harder thicker nails. My bf's nail clippers also double as a car-jack.
To be fair, I took pink plasti-dip to the handles of a lot of my tools. Buts that's not because I need pink tools for my delicate lady hands, but so the guys in my shop won't borrow them.
Smart way to use their fragile masculinity to your advantage
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My dad one day in the 1970s: "Tennis is gay." .....My mom in reply: "So football is manly?"......My dad: "Hell yeah."...... My mom: "A sport where you're rubbing up against other men and sharing showers naked in a room together is manly."..... And that's when I think my dad's brain melted and he never made such comments again.
This gender BS is so annoying. I've been dealing with it my whole life. All I wanted to do as a kid was run around outside, climb trees, catch bugs, play in the mud. But my older, female cousins would insist on dragging me into the bathroom to fix my hair, do my makeup and harass me about why I wasn't wearing a training bra. I've never liked pink. I very much wanted to join the boy scouts because they got to do all the fun stuff. I hated being forced to wear dresses and I loved unicorns because putting a horn on a horse just made it even more bad ass. Now I'm an adult and trying to raise boys and am having to deal with all the problems at the other end of the spectrum. I make a point of not even introducing any of that toxic masculinity crap, but my 7 year old watches cartoons and picks up snippets of it from that. Lately he's been trying to tell me boy's hearts aren't as big as girl's, and that boys are supposed to be meaner than girls. We had a nice long conversation about that one.
Yeah, I'm a girl and I don't like fixing my hair, doing makeup, or like pink either.
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I laugh at a lot of these but I did just want to put it out in the universe that while we should support men and women that subvert “traditional gender roles” we also need to show support for men and women who tend to fall into them. I had a coworker tell my boss she wanted to be a stay at home mom and raise a large family and he told her she was too smart to waste her life like that. And she was incredibly smart but her excitement about wanting to make a home and be a full time mom apparently made her goals ridiculous. We shouldn’t shame men who go to the gym and lift weights by assuming they are just “grunts” or women who enjoy manicures and shoe sales as “airheads”. Bottom line, but what you want, do what you want but also let others be too.
We need to allow people to habe their own choices. But we really need to stop gendering actions, careers, clothes or everything else.
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At the time of this comment, the article has war paint for men as a header. I’ve always referred to cosmetics as war paint. When I put on red lipstick, most people in my life know it’s a day for me to be productive...that it’s my war paint.
Exactly. It conceals and diverts. My true self passes unseen.
Load More Replies... For gender-freak parents: a boy being feminine does not mean he will be gay. He may be masculine and gay, or masculine and straight, or feminine and gay, or feminine and straight. He may be trans and a lesbian. Gender is not the same as sexuality and stop mixing the two up!
Or less rephrase it. There arent femenine or masculine things. That boy is just wearing long hair or a skirt, not being feminine :)
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I also hate the stereotype that girls love princesses but boys hate them, and that boys love superheroes, and girls hate them. I am a girl, and I love superheroes! Honestly, I prefer Marvel to DC, but of course, that is the business of fandom. I don't really wear women's clothing, but more men's because I find that men's are actually way cooler. I really, REALLY wish that the world didn't have to genderize everyday things!
All said and done, these things exist because there is a market for them. Let us be honest that our society has not reached the point where people are just people. Men, women, black, white, tall, short or whatever, doesn't matter. Hopefully I live long enough to see the majority finally discarding these nonsensical stereotypes. But it ain't looking good at the rate I'm going.
One of the biggest issues that I noticed that even though consciously we are trying to think without the stereotypes, our brains saw so many of them that it automatically thinks it's normal subconsciously.
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It's okay. I'm apparently not a girl. Gonna be a hell of a shock to my OB/GYN.... ;-D
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In Animal Crossing New Horizons, the carpet selling camel, Sahara, is a girl in the US version, but in Japan, Sahara is a guy. I heard it's because they were afraid that the long eyelashes would be a problem on a guy. Camels have long eyelashes to protect their eyes from the sand and other crap in the desert. But in Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the lead character, Link, a guy, has to dress up as a girl to get into a city of all women. If you don't do this, you can't complete the game. And, he actually does it more than once. So Nintendo had no problem with forcing one of their iconic characters to cross dress, but didn't want to make a camel male because it had long eyelashes. That's messed up.
For me it is more surprising to find animals talking and behaving like humans.
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It's amazing how some people can be so smug with their beliefs, yet, are completely intolerant of other people's opinions.
Shoes are a big problem for (at least) kids , the female shoes are all sparkly and pink, and the male shoes are all kinds of colors. I wanted to cry when my mom said no to shoes "for boys" and made me get the sparkly crap. And she still wonders why I dont wear the shoes she gets me. Then again I could just be over dramatic-
Same for my grandma. She used to buy me super "girly" clothes and also usually tight. I never wore them and she kept being sad about it. Well maybe buy me the clothes I liked as a kid.
Load More Replies... This is why I'm non-binary. Not only because I felt really confident in that identity, but partly because of stereotypes. When you say it 'stereotypes', it seems to be just a word. However they are painfully restricting in what you can do and be accepted for. They appear so often that subconsciously our brains perceive them as normal (I even noticed it in my own thoughts. Like when i was picking a toy for my brother, i reached for blue instead of pink). It's a sad reality that harms both genders
I adore them all. We should have a permanent collection of these strangely-gendered things, and at the end of the year a Golden Tin-opener should be given to the best one.
You can check the reddit pointlesslygendered most examples in this post are there.
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There was an article online some time ago about men who considered it to be gay to wipe themselves after going to the bathroom. They rather had skidmarks on their clothes and bedsheets then wipe themselves or shower themselves. So disgusting. (Google men refusing to wipe because it is gay, you’ll find several...)
I buy nothing but hot pink lighters (5-packs) because they're easier to locate in the pile of crap on my desk.
They have wipes now (the kind you use after you use the toilet) that are called “dude wipes” apparently they’re bigger or something because it’s gay to touch your asshole when you s**t
I'd like to believe all this gender crap is in the past, but I know it's not.
I had trouble with my tools at work disappearing till I engraved daisies and little hearts all over them. Well one of the mechanics did take one and the other guys teased him so much that somehow it was put back 9n my desk while I was at break.
My sister and I play baseball, soccer, basketball, and hockey. Me being the more "girly" got teased by the boys on the baseball team 24/7. They would actually stand on the bench, chew up sunflower seeds, and spit the soggy shells at me, aiming at my face and getting the already chewed seeds into my mouth. One boy, in particular, would make fun of my name and change my name to inappropriate things...all because I was "girly." Later in the year I proved to be better at those sports than him and continued to be myself, and try not to react to the comments. Eventually, my coach stepped in and stopped it all together. I have 2 moms, and both of them are all for girl power and us continuing to play. They still bring us to every game, every practice, and take us to practice by ourselves. So both girls and boys, continue to be yourself and ignore these people who have no sense of direction in life and keep up doing what you love...NO MATTER WHAT!!!! 💕💕
I'm not saying that gender roles haven't always been an issue, because obviously they have, but the particular way that it hits us now is mostly due to advertising. Companies found that they sold more if they had gender-specific versions and that became the way that society saw gender. Imagine that, advertising can affect how people see their own gender. Advertising is a truly scary then when you look into it
Not only gender, also hair color, race, social group you belong to, income level, ...
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I've stopped laughing around #20 and told a friend I've send the link to, to rather not read it, cos it has began to sound depressing not funny very quickly :(
I always hated the gender thing and bucked it as much as possible with my sons 35 years ago. It's easier to do with girls as people are more afraid of homosexuality than they are of lesbianism. Anyways, I owned a children's clothing and toy store and took great pleasure in asking every customer who walked in if their baby was a boy or girl, especially if the child was dressed very obviously. They'd look at me like there was something wrong with me if I couldn't tell the kid was a girl with a big stupid pink bow on their head.
I hate this anti-Mormon Bullcrap Edit: the anti-Mormon posts, not the whole post.
The one picture that doesnt say anything bad about your cult except that its absurd to separate women and men by colours?
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I'm a girl who loves pink - does that mean there's something wrong with me?!
It means that you are a person that liked pink. Being a girl has nothing to do with it.
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I've seen pink boxing gloves for women. If I was into boxing I wouldn't want pink gloves.
So...late reaction from my side. But here is the problem. When is - except from the obvious- is someone being a jerk? Isnt it possible that you make a - perhaps misplaced- joke? Does it mean that you ARE a jerk? In other words who has the monopoly on judging somebode on making mistakes?
This isn't gendering. Pink is for females. Blue is for males. They're sexes, not genders. This is sexing.
Listen, I'm 100% be who you want to be. If my boy wants to wear a pink sweater or even a dress, we're going dress shopping. That being said, I do get why some items are pink for Girls. It's just bc most Girls like pink. And yes, it's stupid that the pink or blue objects have 'boy- or girlwhatever' on the box.
But most girls like them because they have been conditioned to believe that pink means girl. Its not the cause, its the consecuence.
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Good points but, often, poor expression. Several people here seem to forget that not everyopne in their potential audiemce is the same age as they are and equally tolerant of the promiscuous use of the F-bomb. Maybe more people would hear you if you left that out? Also: use of the term 'straight people' as an all-inclusive is as offensive as, for example, 'all gays' in that ignores individuality.
The only really wrong things I saw up there were the reaction of the mom with the Kinder eggs (poor little boy) and the different pricing of differently coloured identical item. Nobody can really tell you which item to choose for yourself and buy. Companies are simply trying to provide a bigger variety for all the different people. People (no matter if they are for or against it) are the ones who think something is for girls if it’s pink. Pink is a colour. If we get this in our minds then we won’t be that annoyed by the variety. Why do you need to pay attention whether it says “for boys” or “for girls” on the pack. At the end, the companies will produce whatever people would buy and stop producing whatever they don’t buy. I think we are reading too much into these items. It is a problem if we try to make a problem out of it. There will always be guys that like pink and girls that hate it, same for all other colours. I vote for diversity in people and items.
I don’t know...some of those were really unnecessary gendered, but others...I think people just got way too “sensitive”. Downvote me as much as you want, but I don’t see the huge problem with animations. I am sick of having all the classics from my childhood ruined because someone finds them gender or race offensive. Better pay attention to what you do now than looking for problems in the good stuff from the past. EDIT: I see all of us who tend to thing differently (don’t see a problem with some of the above photos) are benign downvoted. I am not okay with people pressuring others to have things gendered, but I also don’t like people being pressured for liking gendered things. Or what? Is this site (or at least this post) ruled by snowflakes?! Seems like it.
How the female characters not being pink or having eyekeashes or fakw boobs ruins your childhood? Maybe you are being too sensitive.
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We are making fun of silly companies pointlessly gendering stuff. What offends you about that?
Load More Replies... To be fair, I took pink plasti-dip to the handles of a lot of my tools. Buts that's not because I need pink tools for my delicate lady hands, but so the guys in my shop won't borrow them.
Smart way to use their fragile masculinity to your advantage
Load More Replies... My dad one day in the 1970s: "Tennis is gay." .....My mom in reply: "So football is manly?"......My dad: "Hell yeah."...... My mom: "A sport where you're rubbing up against other men and sharing showers naked in a room together is manly."..... And that's when I think my dad's brain melted and he never made such comments again.
This gender BS is so annoying. I've been dealing with it my whole life. All I wanted to do as a kid was run around outside, climb trees, catch bugs, play in the mud. But my older, female cousins would insist on dragging me into the bathroom to fix my hair, do my makeup and harass me about why I wasn't wearing a training bra. I've never liked pink. I very much wanted to join the boy scouts because they got to do all the fun stuff. I hated being forced to wear dresses and I loved unicorns because putting a horn on a horse just made it even more bad ass. Now I'm an adult and trying to raise boys and am having to deal with all the problems at the other end of the spectrum. I make a point of not even introducing any of that toxic masculinity crap, but my 7 year old watches cartoons and picks up snippets of it from that. Lately he's been trying to tell me boy's hearts aren't as big as girl's, and that boys are supposed to be meaner than girls. We had a nice long conversation about that one.
Yeah, I'm a girl and I don't like fixing my hair, doing makeup, or like pink either.
Load More Replies... I laugh at a lot of these but I did just want to put it out in the universe that while we should support men and women that subvert “traditional gender roles” we also need to show support for men and women who tend to fall into them. I had a coworker tell my boss she wanted to be a stay at home mom and raise a large family and he told her she was too smart to waste her life like that. And she was incredibly smart but her excitement about wanting to make a home and be a full time mom apparently made her goals ridiculous. We shouldn’t shame men who go to the gym and lift weights by assuming they are just “grunts” or women who enjoy manicures and shoe sales as “airheads”. Bottom line, but what you want, do what you want but also let others be too.
We need to allow people to habe their own choices. But we really need to stop gendering actions, careers, clothes or everything else.
Load More Replies... At the time of this comment, the article has war paint for men as a header. I’ve always referred to cosmetics as war paint. When I put on red lipstick, most people in my life know it’s a day for me to be productive...that it’s my war paint.
Exactly. It conceals and diverts. My true self passes unseen.
Load More Replies... For gender-freak parents: a boy being feminine does not mean he will be gay. He may be masculine and gay, or masculine and straight, or feminine and gay, or feminine and straight. He may be trans and a lesbian. Gender is not the same as sexuality and stop mixing the two up!
Or less rephrase it. There arent femenine or masculine things. That boy is just wearing long hair or a skirt, not being feminine :)
Load More Replies... I also hate the stereotype that girls love princesses but boys hate them, and that boys love superheroes, and girls hate them. I am a girl, and I love superheroes! Honestly, I prefer Marvel to DC, but of course, that is the business of fandom. I don't really wear women's clothing, but more men's because I find that men's are actually way cooler. I really, REALLY wish that the world didn't have to genderize everyday things!
All said and done, these things exist because there is a market for them. Let us be honest that our society has not reached the point where people are just people. Men, women, black, white, tall, short or whatever, doesn't matter. Hopefully I live long enough to see the majority finally discarding these nonsensical stereotypes. But it ain't looking good at the rate I'm going.
One of the biggest issues that I noticed that even though consciously we are trying to think without the stereotypes, our brains saw so many of them that it automatically thinks it's normal subconsciously.
Load More Replies... It's okay. I'm apparently not a girl. Gonna be a hell of a shock to my OB/GYN.... ;-D
Load More Replies... In Animal Crossing New Horizons, the carpet selling camel, Sahara, is a girl in the US version, but in Japan, Sahara is a guy. I heard it's because they were afraid that the long eyelashes would be a problem on a guy. Camels have long eyelashes to protect their eyes from the sand and other crap in the desert. But in Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, the lead character, Link, a guy, has to dress up as a girl to get into a city of all women. If you don't do this, you can't complete the game. And, he actually does it more than once. So Nintendo had no problem with forcing one of their iconic characters to cross dress, but didn't want to make a camel male because it had long eyelashes. That's messed up.
For me it is more surprising to find animals talking and behaving like humans.
Load More Replies... It's amazing how some people can be so smug with their beliefs, yet, are completely intolerant of other people's opinions.
Shoes are a big problem for (at least) kids , the female shoes are all sparkly and pink, and the male shoes are all kinds of colors. I wanted to cry when my mom said no to shoes "for boys" and made me get the sparkly crap. And she still wonders why I dont wear the shoes she gets me. Then again I could just be over dramatic-
Same for my grandma. She used to buy me super "girly" clothes and also usually tight. I never wore them and she kept being sad about it. Well maybe buy me the clothes I liked as a kid.
Load More Replies... This is why I'm non-binary. Not only because I felt really confident in that identity, but partly because of stereotypes. When you say it 'stereotypes', it seems to be just a word. However they are painfully restricting in what you can do and be accepted for. They appear so often that subconsciously our brains perceive them as normal (I even noticed it in my own thoughts. Like when i was picking a toy for my brother, i reached for blue instead of pink). It's a sad reality that harms both genders
I adore them all. We should have a permanent collection of these strangely-gendered things, and at the end of the year a Golden Tin-opener should be given to the best one.
You can check the reddit pointlesslygendered most examples in this post are there.
Load More Replies... There was an article online some time ago about men who considered it to be gay to wipe themselves after going to the bathroom. They rather had skidmarks on their clothes and bedsheets then wipe themselves or shower themselves. So disgusting. (Google men refusing to wipe because it is gay, you’ll find several...)
I buy nothing but hot pink lighters (5-packs) because they're easier to locate in the pile of crap on my desk.
They have wipes now (the kind you use after you use the toilet) that are called “dude wipes” apparently they’re bigger or something because it’s gay to touch your asshole when you s**t
I'd like to believe all this gender crap is in the past, but I know it's not.
I had trouble with my tools at work disappearing till I engraved daisies and little hearts all over them. Well one of the mechanics did take one and the other guys teased him so much that somehow it was put back 9n my desk while I was at break.
My sister and I play baseball, soccer, basketball, and hockey. Me being the more "girly" got teased by the boys on the baseball team 24/7. They would actually stand on the bench, chew up sunflower seeds, and spit the soggy shells at me, aiming at my face and getting the already chewed seeds into my mouth. One boy, in particular, would make fun of my name and change my name to inappropriate things...all because I was "girly." Later in the year I proved to be better at those sports than him and continued to be myself, and try not to react to the comments. Eventually, my coach stepped in and stopped it all together. I have 2 moms, and both of them are all for girl power and us continuing to play. They still bring us to every game, every practice, and take us to practice by ourselves. So both girls and boys, continue to be yourself and ignore these people who have no sense of direction in life and keep up doing what you love...NO MATTER WHAT!!!! 💕💕
I'm not saying that gender roles haven't always been an issue, because obviously they have, but the particular way that it hits us now is mostly due to advertising. Companies found that they sold more if they had gender-specific versions and that became the way that society saw gender. Imagine that, advertising can affect how people see their own gender. Advertising is a truly scary then when you look into it
Not only gender, also hair color, race, social group you belong to, income level, ...
Load More Replies... I've stopped laughing around #20 and told a friend I've send the link to, to rather not read it, cos it has began to sound depressing not funny very quickly :(
I always hated the gender thing and bucked it as much as possible with my sons 35 years ago. It's easier to do with girls as people are more afraid of homosexuality than they are of lesbianism. Anyways, I owned a children's clothing and toy store and took great pleasure in asking every customer who walked in if their baby was a boy or girl, especially if the child was dressed very obviously. They'd look at me like there was something wrong with me if I couldn't tell the kid was a girl with a big stupid pink bow on their head.
I hate this anti-Mormon Bullcrap Edit: the anti-Mormon posts, not the whole post.
The one picture that doesnt say anything bad about your cult except that its absurd to separate women and men by colours?
Load More Replies... I'm a girl who loves pink - does that mean there's something wrong with me?!
It means that you are a person that liked pink. Being a girl has nothing to do with it.
Load More Replies... I've seen pink boxing gloves for women. If I was into boxing I wouldn't want pink gloves.
So...late reaction from my side. But here is the problem. When is - except from the obvious- is someone being a jerk? Isnt it possible that you make a - perhaps misplaced- joke? Does it mean that you ARE a jerk? In other words who has the monopoly on judging somebode on making mistakes?
This isn't gendering. Pink is for females. Blue is for males. They're sexes, not genders. This is sexing.
Listen, I'm 100% be who you want to be. If my boy wants to wear a pink sweater or even a dress, we're going dress shopping. That being said, I do get why some items are pink for Girls. It's just bc most Girls like pink. And yes, it's stupid that the pink or blue objects have 'boy- or girlwhatever' on the box.
But most girls like them because they have been conditioned to believe that pink means girl. Its not the cause, its the consecuence.
Load More Replies... Good points but, often, poor expression. Several people here seem to forget that not everyopne in their potential audiemce is the same age as they are and equally tolerant of the promiscuous use of the F-bomb. Maybe more people would hear you if you left that out? Also: use of the term 'straight people' as an all-inclusive is as offensive as, for example, 'all gays' in that ignores individuality.
The only really wrong things I saw up there were the reaction of the mom with the Kinder eggs (poor little boy) and the different pricing of differently coloured identical item. Nobody can really tell you which item to choose for yourself and buy. Companies are simply trying to provide a bigger variety for all the different people. People (no matter if they are for or against it) are the ones who think something is for girls if it’s pink. Pink is a colour. If we get this in our minds then we won’t be that annoyed by the variety. Why do you need to pay attention whether it says “for boys” or “for girls” on the pack. At the end, the companies will produce whatever people would buy and stop producing whatever they don’t buy. I think we are reading too much into these items. It is a problem if we try to make a problem out of it. There will always be guys that like pink and girls that hate it, same for all other colours. I vote for diversity in people and items.
I don’t know...some of those were really unnecessary gendered, but others...I think people just got way too “sensitive”. Downvote me as much as you want, but I don’t see the huge problem with animations. I am sick of having all the classics from my childhood ruined because someone finds them gender or race offensive. Better pay attention to what you do now than looking for problems in the good stuff from the past. EDIT: I see all of us who tend to thing differently (don’t see a problem with some of the above photos) are benign downvoted. I am not okay with people pressuring others to have things gendered, but I also don’t like people being pressured for liking gendered things. Or what? Is this site (or at least this post) ruled by snowflakes?! Seems like it.
How the female characters not being pink or having eyekeashes or fakw boobs ruins your childhood? Maybe you are being too sensitive.
Load More Replies... We are making fun of silly companies pointlessly gendering stuff. What offends you about that?
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