People Are Sharing Unnecessarily Gendered Products To Show How Wrong And Stupid It Is (30 Pics)
What do you look for when you’re choosing a product? Let’s say the product is something essential but banal, for example, a toothbrush. Do you want it to work how it’s supposed to and be comfortable to use? Obviously. Do you want it to be a color you like? Sure. Admittedly not relevant to how it works, but you do see it several times a day, after all. Do you want it to make you feel like a real man or a woman?
Probably not what most of us think of while we’re brushing our teeth every morning, but apparently, advertisers say yes. Here are some products that we don’t think anyone asked for gendered versions of, as found by people on Twitter.
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I get this one, in that it has added value over regular jenga with the talking points on the bricks. It's not a stretch to say girls and boys would probably find different questions more or less interesting. It also transforms it from a strictly competitive game to a social one, which tends to appeal to girls more.
Nobody is saying that selling things in a variety of designs is bad—people have different likes and dislikes and we would be bored if everything only came in brown. But is it any wonder why so many girls end up resenting pink and floral patterns when that’s the one look that advertisements and toy packaging tell them they should be choosing, while boys are encouraged to play with toys in red, green, black, and pretty much every other color?
For adults, who have had their whole lives to get to know their own preferences, it seems shallow and infantilizing. And when design comes at the expense of functionality, like pink glue or more fragile razors, it goes from uncomfortable to insulting.
Finally a product for me, I've had enough of using men's shampoo, apricots have delicate hair you know. We need specially formulated shampoos :D
Then there’s the opposite phenomenon, when marketers think things should be designated “for men” because apparently it’s not manly in the first place to use soap, eat bread, or have a cup of tea (chili in tea... I didn't know there was something effeminate about drinking things that taste good and don’t hurt.)
To be fair, some products are gendered because of average shape and size measurements or nutritional requirements based on sex. Even in those cases, though, what do we get out of labeling them “for men” or “for women” before said sizing or nutritional benefits? That just confuses and embarrasses people whose needs fall outside of those averages, because our proportions and chemistry vary a lot even within the biological categories of male and female. Further polarizing products by putting nuts and bolts or flowers and glitter on the package adds another uncomfortable layer by conflating our personalities and likes with those physical parameters.
This one doesn’t specifically say any gender. There is nothing wrong with having a choice of pink plane or blue plane. Some people (whether girl or boy like pink and others like blue).
The American Marketing Association has observed that younger consumers are beginning to scoff at advertising that leans on gender, and recommends that brands focus on advertising “what a product is for rather than whom it is for.”
They say that brands could learn more about their consumer base’s habits and do better business by removing gendered marketing that could sway consumers away from products not traditionally associated with their gender, and embracing marketing that presents their products in a positive light for any consumer.
Honestly, this isn't gendered, this is just two different types of products, with different characters/design.
These are just different colors, not gender-oriented. Am I not seeing something?
Oh I dunno, less smiting is always good, and I could do with that loaves and fishes recipe.
This isn't really gendered it's colored. Only if you assign blue to boys and pink to girls can you say it's really gendered. As it doesn't say 'for boys' or 'for girls' on the packaging. I would've probably liked this as a child.
This is a shaving mirror. So unless you are a bearded lady, this is correctly titled.
It's Cards Against Humanity. Totally appropriate for it to be unnecessarily gendered. Have you never played?
Again, I don't really think this is gendered...? Some kids like to play with the rockets and planes while others like to play with the astronauts. I think it's really cool that there's a female astronaut doll and nowhere does it say that it's for girls or that the other one is for boys
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So much pink it makes me want to throw up. Also, Gillette razor blades, female ones being more expensive and easier to dull. We will never move as a society.
I've been using men's razors all my life. Tried a couple marketed towards women a couple times and immediately threw them out. They were useless!
Love the name Evil
I loathe pink. My mother made me have everything pink when I was a child, even after I told her I preferred blue.
My mom kept trying to buy me things with hearts on it my whole childhood. eew
I always buy men's razors
Same. My all time favourite was a Wilkinson Sword in bright scarlet. I wish they hadn't stopped making the replacement blades for it.
i dont use razors or wax or tweezers so im good
I got a men’s Gillette razor and LOVED it. I went to buy the razor Gillette makes for women and it was awful. It felt like it was about to break and not nearly as close a shave. Like seriously, same damn company. Can’t they at least make them the same quality?
The difference between men and women’s razors started out by the fact that women’s razors were designed to be more flexible around the head of the blade so that they can sort of twist around knees and ankles, but somewhere along the way they just sort of devolved into pink blades designed to be used four times before getting dull.
I always buy blue. (For exactly those reasons. And don't forget: easier to break!)
Then buy the ones for "men". Problem solved.
Historically, pink for girls and blue for boys wasn’t the norm until post-WWII retail in the US. Originally, it was the other way around: “For example, the June 1918 issue of the Infant's Department, a trade magazine for baby clothes manufacturers, said: ‘There has been a great diversity of opinion on this subject, but the generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl. The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy; while blue, which is more delicate and dainty is prettier for the girl.’” See: https://www.livescience.com/22037-pink-girls-blue-boys.html
Yep. Gendered colours are completely a social construct. Which is part of what makes it so ridiculous. If we want to offer different colours for products, that's fine, but FFS, don't gender them.
Yup, this is a fact. The problem is the existence of it, though, not what it looks like. What it looks like is cheesy, dumb, offensive, bizarre... etc., but the important point to grasp is that it’s being done at all.
Damn woman... always stealing man stuff like wigs, makeup, heels and so on they have no shame....
XDD
For everyone determined to be so regressive they have to argue every entry on this post: You aren't coming off like a cool, intelligent rebel. You give the impression of either a Martian anthropologist trying to understand "hoo-mahns," a giant numpty who can barely recognize shapes, or someone who has lived under a rock in Antarctica for 70 years. Just accept that gendered marketing is a thing and that we *all* hate it. Here's a really easy test: If those products are "just different colors," how many of you would buy a pink item as a gift for a male work supervisor you didn't know well? How many of you would give a pink item at a boy's baby shower if you didn't know the family well?
Thank you.
The thing is a lot of us don't hate it we just dont care, the ridiculous things you people put your energy into fighting is mind blowing.
Exactly. The hunger for faux outrage is extraordinary.
As a woman, if I have a choice between a pink item and something else , I chose something else. Usually blue or black.
Honestly as a guy I think that blue and black are the top choice for any gender
I did this recently with heated gloves for the office. The female ones were too bright and pink. But I was concerned the back male ones would be too large. As soon as I found out the mens ran small I ordered those instead.
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Even if things don't say "for boys" or "for girls" some things are clearly still intended to be that way. Do you really think the kind of person who buys The Arsenal Nail Kit is doing it to break gender norms? Or that kids who have been force-fed stereotypes through adverts, media, peers, and family are going to stop and think about why those toys and food packets have been made to be in those two specific colours in the first place? There's so much subliminal and outside influence on issues like this that, as much as it's true that blue isn't just for boys and pink isn't just for girls, there's clearly a problem here with how products are being made for either one or the other. It doesn't have to be spelled out in lights for you realise what's going on with. Use some common sense and stop believing that this is all an accident or done innocently.
Yeah...it’s called marketing.
Yup they make double the money. If you have 2 kids one girl one boy you have to buy while new sets of clothes and toys. You used to not be able to hand down big sisters dolls to younger brother but things are changing finally. To me it's ok if boys want to play with dolls and girls like video games. I've always been a tomboy. Worn like 3 dresses (except for school uniforms) my whole life. Why can't we let the kids decide who they want to be without the marketing plots shaping who they are? This really gets to me.
Thankfully, we don't have many of these in my country, it's more just things like perfumes and razors. But some American brand shops have tried to bring this nonsense here, like Dollarstore.
Sometimes I like getting pink things! I like the pink earplugs, I would use those at concerts! I wouldn't buy the pink hand drill set though. I have a transgender daughter and she likes to get pink things-but not everyone is like her. These products are there for people who would them. Otherwise, just reach for the other non-pink item.
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Advertisers do this because it works enough to make it worth their while.
My husband kept taking my can openers to work and leaving them there so I couldn't open cans to make dinner. I bought a pink can opener and that quickly came to an end.
The product doesn't have to be labeled male or female to be gender-specific. The color acts as the subliminal gender identifier for the consumer. Easy way to get around complaints against gender labeled products.
These are just so LAME! Things like this should just stop happening already.
For as long as I can remember pink has been marketed and pushed on girls and blue for boys. Just because it doesn't print the words "male" or "female"/ "boy" or "girl" common sense ( and years of commercial programming) tell me exactly what they are aiming for and what their demographic focus was/is.
It's SO irritating.
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No, it’s not.
Honestly most of these are just people getting worked up over something being colored pink or blue. The majority of these have no gender issue and are just overreactions.
I once saw honey for women... Did not understand that in the slightest. Still don't, actually.
The razors are the same as men's, just in pink, instead of buying the girl/women brands buy men's much cheaper.
I've been buying "men's" razors for years. It's just a razor! Those who complain about the gender thing are the ones who are only seeing an item as gendered. Really annoying tbh.
Some of the earlier "women's" razors were strange designs, such as one that had a really wide handle. It made no sense to me, that the sex with smaller hands would get this wide unwieldy thing. Also, some were more expensive than the male version. I've always bought men's razors.
A lot of these are just ridiculous and people getting outraged over nothing or seeing a gender issue when there isn’t one.
Yeah really. I'm a girl who likes pink and butterflies. If a guy likes them too, great. It if a girl likes cars and tools great.
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Tell that to Mattel about their Barbie Pink. Then show me a boy's toy in Barbie Pink.
What's with all the people saying that lots of stuff is just accidentally sold in blue and pink with other typically male or female assigned imageries like flowers? This isn't a coincidence. It's like those people, who say that they don't see any color, and then magically racism vanishes. We all know why they use pink and blue. As someone said even 2 year olds know the color coding, so don't pretend like it has nothing to do with gendered products just because there is no "for men" or "for girls" written on it.
What ever sells.
lol i have a store and gendered products like this exist because WOMEN WANT THEM not all women but many and i get so often request like dont u have this in pink or red or purple or in more feminine style and its always women asking so these products exist because theres a demand
Nothing wrong with wanting things in different colors. You can buy your iPhone in the color of your liking but there is no girl iPhone. There are just different colors from dark to light.
The only problem here is the limited colour schemes, we should branch out and use every colour in the bow.
I think sometimes people think equality is women doing things men’s way.
I've worked in an advertising profession for the last 34 years. Trust me when I say 99% of the time marketers know how to sell their products and how they make the same products to different people. It works. Its all about human nature. I know it's a politically incorrect thing to say but males and females ARE different!
Or maybe we are all fed with this stereotype shit from the youngest age and think it must be true then.
Girls and womens shopping experience is almost always a unicorn flavored, pastel-tinted nightmare. If we don't want something with cammo on it, or some other ridiculous male stereotyped look, then we have to choose one of the vomit inducing eyesores covered in glitter and a plastic bow. Why not throw in some basic primary and secondary colors?
It's not hard for people to stop gendering things. For example, I have parents who never attempted to make me watch Disney because I used to not like those sort of things, but they got my brother who likes any sort of cartoon an Aladin dvd.
There’s only one gender. It’s Nerf or nothing.
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Have you seen the pink camo .22 rifle aimed (ooh, *bed* pun...) at the 10-year-old female crowd. Daddy buys it to teach his little girl how to shoot. *And I hope he goes the way of the Dodo very soon, now!*
Especially those
I was at a NASA/Navy facility and they actually had men's & women's earplugs.
The concept of gendered products is a wee bit pathetic, but I have to stick up for the producers of those baby bids. There is usually a HUGE variety with different sayings, for boys and girls. I feel like those two were picked simply to make a 'look how sexist this is' post.
Terilee Bruyere like
OH MAH GOSH I NEED PEOPLE TO STOP MAKING PRODUCTS LIKE THIS!!! THEY ARE BEING GeNdErSisT (sexist)
Local Tesco gendered magazines. "Magazines for women" - usually waste of paper - fashion, dieting, romantic stories, tabloid.... And "Magazines for men" - science, technology, nature....all the interesting stuff. It's annoying as hell. Do they think that women can't read National Geographic or what?
If you want a laugh, have a look at this, specifically the reviews. Bic brought out a biro for 'Her' and the reviews are hilarious. Maybe it's just a Brit thing to use sarcasm to make a point. https://www.amazon.co.uk/BIC-Her-Medium-Ballpoint-Pen/dp/B004FTF6H4/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8&th=1
If this is America (USA) then my deepest sympathy, dear people! This is sheer madness. Or it's simply consumerism gone berserk....with a pinch of religious nutcase.
Interesting repetitive discussions.
so one time in China there was this lady selling dolphin necklaces for $10. I really wanted one so my aunt bought me one. But the saleslady said that the pink one was for girls, but that didn't really make any sense for me since dolphins are blue. So I bought the blue one and the saleslady look embarrassed.
Since we are being told Gender is not a real thing anymore I agree totally with this post.
Yes, gendered products that don't need to be are kind of silly. So is getting your panties in a bunch over gendered products.
Yes, being male, you wouldn't see the problem. You've never had it.
yuk to pink. FYI my pet peeve is dad and mum music.... my birthday is the week of Father's day and they always have 'dad's driving anthems' type albums containing brilliant Rock music, then mums get cr*p like Westlife... no thanks
What the hell is the point of all this how about gender equality guys hello
My humble thoughts - some men (not all men but probably a larger proportion than is the case for women) are less likely to care about personal hygiene than women, and so gendered products like man sized tissues and wipes has a definite purpose. Also some men (not all men.....etc) are much less likely to eat healthy food with nuts, seeds etc in it than women, so gendered bread, crazy as it may seem, might actually be a good thing to encourage men to eat it. Painting things pink to encourage women to pay more for the same thing though is not quite as beneficial, except for the companies.
I don't see a problem here. If they keep using this marketing strategy, it's probably working. You can easily buy a thing that's meant for "other gender".
And I do, right down to clothes. Men's clothes are practical, better made, and cost less!
I have a son who just turned 51 years old and when he was around 12 years old I had to write an excuse note as to why he was not in school for two days for him to bring to his teacher. I used pink stationery to write the note on and he vehemently refused to bring it to school. I attempted to explain to him that it was my note on my stationary but I had to rewrite in on blue, green, beige - anything but pink! Oh well, boys will be boys.
https://youtu.be/3JDmb_f3E2c This is an interesting video about this stuff if anyone's interested
Surprised (not) that no one brought up those signs in Geneva.
If you think from a marketing standpoint, whatever the target market is, the company sees fit. Just because something is pink or blue doesn't mean it's specified as for boy or girl or something that's just for men can be advertised without people getting offended or sensitive over something. You want them to start advertising feminine products as a plain product. Sometimes things just need to left as it is. Business is Business.
Anyone remember the Dr. Pepper Ten commercials? "Not for women!" Which basically showed MANLY men rumbling around in the jungle with laser guns or something along those lines lol.
I love my SMP Glider bike saddle, but I almost didn't buy one because the company's idea of making a "women's" saddle was to put pink stitching on those models. I thought that was incredibly lame because there was no other difference between them. (I bought a "men's" because I wanted a red one.)
Part of our problem as a people is that we have been brought up with color-association. We associate gender roles based on color. Blue for boys, Pink for girls. When a couple is expecting, those were the colors used to indicate gender for their coming child. Yellow, green, other colors were meant to keep it secret or indicate they did not know. But somehow marketing seemed to get it in their head that only to gender roles exist and so we have pink vs blue...just buy what you like and move on. No need to get upset over it...
Actually, blue for boys and pink for girls was basically a marketing ploy started by clothing manufacturers and such back in the late 1800s, really taking hold around the 1930s (and ramped up during and after WWII). Before that, blue was thought of as a "gentle, female" color because it was similar to flowers. Pink was for boys because it resembled the faded blood from a battle. Even then, these were interchangeable and no one really cared. Little boys were put in dresses for most of their young childhood and we have pictures of famous 'manly-men' donning these dresses as toddlers, including Teddy Roosevelt. Basically, people have stupidly been getting worked up about gender conformity and colors for only 80+ years of our thousands of years of existence.
It's a fairly recent thing, though. I don't remember there being anywhere near as many gendered toys when I was a kid. A microscope or chemistry set came in just one model and you could give it to a child of either sex.
As long as it doesn't say it's for boys or girls, it's not gendered. Color is not the same as gender. And health food/drink that is gendered is not weird, as men and women do have different nutritional needs. It is weird when it's soda or beer.
Realistically, anything pink is not going to be bought by a man. Also, the nutritional differences aren't *that* great.
I had a pink phone case for a while and I am a man, the reason was it was a really good case at a really good price and the only color they had was pink, so I bought it because I dont care about the color, only the product I wanted
Some of these are really gross and problematic and deserve to be called out. Others are literally just different coloured products and that's not gendering. If you see a pink and blue product that doesn't say anywhere which colour is meant for which gender, yet in your head you automatically assume the pink is for girls and blue for boys, then maybe the problem is with you
It's because it's been drilled in our heads for decades even if we don't agree with it. You must be from a younger generation. And if the younger generation doesn't see pink for girls and blue for boys then that's wonderful! I'm being very serious!
Kaisu is a moron, a woke moron, or a troll; hard to tell, but save your breath- they're never gonna understand something so simple even after explaining it a hundred times.
Kaisu, so if you went to a gender reveal party and pink glitter popped out of the cake our whatever would you not under stand that the baby is a girl?
I totally get that! I don't personally consider pink a color for girls and blue for boys, so that's not my automatic thought when I see products in pink or blue, but I can totally see why other people, especially older people, might!
It has been drilled into me somewhat even though I'm younger and never really liked pink and aways liked blue. The true test: Replace your toothbrushes. Give him the pink one, and you take the other color (in my case green). When you're groggy see how well that works. It doesn't. DX
Makes me wonder who buys that ridiculous stuff. The pink tool kit looks cool, though.
Most of these I can see. One or two of these items is a stretch at saying it's ridiculous..like the Tea.
honestly, I think this is too much! They're the same products, just in pink and blue. there are no "girl" or "boy" toys. let a girl like cars and a boy like dolls! there is no need to gender them if everyone will use them
I can’t bear to go through this whole damned list of shitty marketing. What stands out to me is the sad number of commentators who think these products aren’t gendered. Either they are culturally uninformed, or they’re willfully rejecting clear signals just to support the whole “I hate how sensitive people are these days” complaint against actually giving a shit about how we treat fellow human beings, genders, etc...
Does your arm hurt from patting yourself on the back so often, Jace?
All the retards saying 'these aren't gendered, it's just 2 different designs' make me want to rip my eyes out. Yes, there are two different designs you morons- one aimed at boys/men ( blue, typically ), and one aimed at girls/women ( pink, usually )- you can't possibly be that stupid, really? Oh wait, you're playing the 'woke' card- that's why you think boys want to play with pink toys that are clearly marketed at girls, because they like having a choice, not because it's obvious marketing. F*ck me side ways some people need to pull their heads out of their asses...
half of these not gendered at all just themed
Fail. TONS of these are either not gendered at all, or gendered in a way that makes sense. Regardless, making a male and female version means you sell twice as much to the store. It's not rocket science. You occupy more shelf space and that's good for your sales.
Get over it. Snowflakes.
Maybe you should wear a frilly pink shirt to work.
Once again, another example of worrying about the wrong thing.
An entire category for snowflakes to fall a part and cry to. Somebody call the waaaaaaabulance,
Most of these things are either vitamins (which NEED to be gendered because different genders need different vitamins and nutrients) or just pink and blue. Why do y'all assume that because something is a certain color it is for that specific gender! No one is telling you you have to buy things in a certain color. Literally no one. You can buy whatever the hell you want. If you want race car goldfish, go for it. If you want pink ear plugs, go for it. Nobody is stopping you nor expecting you to buy a specific one. Calm down and stop making a problem out of colors.
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What a stupid article. You people are all idiots.
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What a stupid article. You are all idiots.
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Here's an idea (to all those complaining about the gendered items) stop buying them! Then guess what? They will stop making them!
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So many triggered whiners. It’s called marketing. For men, for women, for girls, for boys. Settle down and realize there are such bigger issues in the world.
So if there are bigger issues in the world, then people shouldn't fix smaller issues? If you have an issue with your car, you wouldn't take it to get fixed because there are much bigger issues in the world?
That’s a really shitty comparison lol. Yes fix your car because that’s an actual problem. The list above, however, is not.
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how about if you don't like it, don't buy the shit.
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If we didn't buy it, they wouldn't make it. I think this is the perfect application of the phrase my kids' elementary gym teacher liked to say; "When you're pointing at someone, there's 3 fingers pointing back at you!"
Think of baby showers. Most of the time if you are having a girl every gift given is pink. It starts there.
What point are you trying to make?
The new Last Man Standing was about this tonight. Ryan didn't want his baby girl to be saturated with pink stuff and Mandy wanted to paint every inch of the room pink and bu y pink blankets and pink everything. Which is how it used to be. But now people are moving toward being more progressive minded (but not fast enough).Like Ryan wanting the girls room to be every color, not just pink.
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people who think these are offensive are the same as people who think men and women are equal... Stupid Idiots!
So much pink it makes me want to throw up. Also, Gillette razor blades, female ones being more expensive and easier to dull. We will never move as a society.
I've been using men's razors all my life. Tried a couple marketed towards women a couple times and immediately threw them out. They were useless!
Love the name Evil
I loathe pink. My mother made me have everything pink when I was a child, even after I told her I preferred blue.
My mom kept trying to buy me things with hearts on it my whole childhood. eew
I always buy men's razors
Same. My all time favourite was a Wilkinson Sword in bright scarlet. I wish they hadn't stopped making the replacement blades for it.
i dont use razors or wax or tweezers so im good
I got a men’s Gillette razor and LOVED it. I went to buy the razor Gillette makes for women and it was awful. It felt like it was about to break and not nearly as close a shave. Like seriously, same damn company. Can’t they at least make them the same quality?
The difference between men and women’s razors started out by the fact that women’s razors were designed to be more flexible around the head of the blade so that they can sort of twist around knees and ankles, but somewhere along the way they just sort of devolved into pink blades designed to be used four times before getting dull.
I always buy blue. (For exactly those reasons. And don't forget: easier to break!)
Then buy the ones for "men". Problem solved.
Historically, pink for girls and blue for boys wasn’t the norm until post-WWII retail in the US. Originally, it was the other way around: “For example, the June 1918 issue of the Infant's Department, a trade magazine for baby clothes manufacturers, said: ‘There has been a great diversity of opinion on this subject, but the generally accepted rule is pink for the boy and blue for the girl. The reason is that pink being a more decided and stronger color, is more suitable for the boy; while blue, which is more delicate and dainty is prettier for the girl.’” See: https://www.livescience.com/22037-pink-girls-blue-boys.html
Yep. Gendered colours are completely a social construct. Which is part of what makes it so ridiculous. If we want to offer different colours for products, that's fine, but FFS, don't gender them.
Yup, this is a fact. The problem is the existence of it, though, not what it looks like. What it looks like is cheesy, dumb, offensive, bizarre... etc., but the important point to grasp is that it’s being done at all.
Damn woman... always stealing man stuff like wigs, makeup, heels and so on they have no shame....
XDD
For everyone determined to be so regressive they have to argue every entry on this post: You aren't coming off like a cool, intelligent rebel. You give the impression of either a Martian anthropologist trying to understand "hoo-mahns," a giant numpty who can barely recognize shapes, or someone who has lived under a rock in Antarctica for 70 years. Just accept that gendered marketing is a thing and that we *all* hate it. Here's a really easy test: If those products are "just different colors," how many of you would buy a pink item as a gift for a male work supervisor you didn't know well? How many of you would give a pink item at a boy's baby shower if you didn't know the family well?
Thank you.
The thing is a lot of us don't hate it we just dont care, the ridiculous things you people put your energy into fighting is mind blowing.
Exactly. The hunger for faux outrage is extraordinary.
As a woman, if I have a choice between a pink item and something else , I chose something else. Usually blue or black.
Honestly as a guy I think that blue and black are the top choice for any gender
I did this recently with heated gloves for the office. The female ones were too bright and pink. But I was concerned the back male ones would be too large. As soon as I found out the mens ran small I ordered those instead.
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Even if things don't say "for boys" or "for girls" some things are clearly still intended to be that way. Do you really think the kind of person who buys The Arsenal Nail Kit is doing it to break gender norms? Or that kids who have been force-fed stereotypes through adverts, media, peers, and family are going to stop and think about why those toys and food packets have been made to be in those two specific colours in the first place? There's so much subliminal and outside influence on issues like this that, as much as it's true that blue isn't just for boys and pink isn't just for girls, there's clearly a problem here with how products are being made for either one or the other. It doesn't have to be spelled out in lights for you realise what's going on with. Use some common sense and stop believing that this is all an accident or done innocently.
Yeah...it’s called marketing.
Yup they make double the money. If you have 2 kids one girl one boy you have to buy while new sets of clothes and toys. You used to not be able to hand down big sisters dolls to younger brother but things are changing finally. To me it's ok if boys want to play with dolls and girls like video games. I've always been a tomboy. Worn like 3 dresses (except for school uniforms) my whole life. Why can't we let the kids decide who they want to be without the marketing plots shaping who they are? This really gets to me.
Thankfully, we don't have many of these in my country, it's more just things like perfumes and razors. But some American brand shops have tried to bring this nonsense here, like Dollarstore.
Sometimes I like getting pink things! I like the pink earplugs, I would use those at concerts! I wouldn't buy the pink hand drill set though. I have a transgender daughter and she likes to get pink things-but not everyone is like her. These products are there for people who would them. Otherwise, just reach for the other non-pink item.
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Advertisers do this because it works enough to make it worth their while.
My husband kept taking my can openers to work and leaving them there so I couldn't open cans to make dinner. I bought a pink can opener and that quickly came to an end.
The product doesn't have to be labeled male or female to be gender-specific. The color acts as the subliminal gender identifier for the consumer. Easy way to get around complaints against gender labeled products.
These are just so LAME! Things like this should just stop happening already.
For as long as I can remember pink has been marketed and pushed on girls and blue for boys. Just because it doesn't print the words "male" or "female"/ "boy" or "girl" common sense ( and years of commercial programming) tell me exactly what they are aiming for and what their demographic focus was/is.
It's SO irritating.
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No, it’s not.
Honestly most of these are just people getting worked up over something being colored pink or blue. The majority of these have no gender issue and are just overreactions.
I once saw honey for women... Did not understand that in the slightest. Still don't, actually.
The razors are the same as men's, just in pink, instead of buying the girl/women brands buy men's much cheaper.
I've been buying "men's" razors for years. It's just a razor! Those who complain about the gender thing are the ones who are only seeing an item as gendered. Really annoying tbh.
Some of the earlier "women's" razors were strange designs, such as one that had a really wide handle. It made no sense to me, that the sex with smaller hands would get this wide unwieldy thing. Also, some were more expensive than the male version. I've always bought men's razors.
A lot of these are just ridiculous and people getting outraged over nothing or seeing a gender issue when there isn’t one.
Yeah really. I'm a girl who likes pink and butterflies. If a guy likes them too, great. It if a girl likes cars and tools great.
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Tell that to Mattel about their Barbie Pink. Then show me a boy's toy in Barbie Pink.
What's with all the people saying that lots of stuff is just accidentally sold in blue and pink with other typically male or female assigned imageries like flowers? This isn't a coincidence. It's like those people, who say that they don't see any color, and then magically racism vanishes. We all know why they use pink and blue. As someone said even 2 year olds know the color coding, so don't pretend like it has nothing to do with gendered products just because there is no "for men" or "for girls" written on it.
What ever sells.
lol i have a store and gendered products like this exist because WOMEN WANT THEM not all women but many and i get so often request like dont u have this in pink or red or purple or in more feminine style and its always women asking so these products exist because theres a demand
Nothing wrong with wanting things in different colors. You can buy your iPhone in the color of your liking but there is no girl iPhone. There are just different colors from dark to light.
The only problem here is the limited colour schemes, we should branch out and use every colour in the bow.
I think sometimes people think equality is women doing things men’s way.
I've worked in an advertising profession for the last 34 years. Trust me when I say 99% of the time marketers know how to sell their products and how they make the same products to different people. It works. Its all about human nature. I know it's a politically incorrect thing to say but males and females ARE different!