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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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Kaisu
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5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If you want to make pink binoculars for people who like pink, that's fine! But gendering binoculars is so unnecessary and stupid

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    Ize86
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Womens Sleeping bags usually have more insulated legroom because women often are cold at the feet area...

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    Hermione Granger
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The concept is good, but it should still be a family game. No need to make it just for girls.

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    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?

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    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.

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    Miłka Chromińska
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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

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    Carol Emory
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There's actually a purpose behind this. The women's tea promotes estrogen health, bone density and calmness for stress. Them men's promotes healthy testosterone levels, memory wellness and gastrointestinal wellness. You wouldn't want a woman drinking a tea that promotes higher testosterone levels, would you?

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    Falcon
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder if it's a play on words. Hand and Man. Still makes little sense tho unless it actually explodes...

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    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.)

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    Ed Souza
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can only imagine the outrage if they made this for women... still funny, I would buy this one as a gag gift.

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    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.

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    I’m Foxxy and I know it 😉
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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).

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    Niito
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is this a real toy? Is it played as the usual one?

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    Ana B.
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Just an unrelated reminder that when they say "flushable", that doesn't mean you should flush them. You CAN, but it's not considered a good idea.

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    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.

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    sunshine_20
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    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Honestly, this isn't gendered, this is just two different types of products, with different characters/design.

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    troufaki13
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    These are just different colors, not gender-oriented. Am I not seeing something?

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    Terd Fergison
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    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The bible is one of the most misogynistic books on the planet. It states that a women who has a female child is twice as unclean as a woman that has a male child. It says that if a woman is raped and they are found, the rapist must pay the father some shekels and they must be married. I don't know many women that want to marry their rapist. Just a sickening, disgusting anti-woman book. Evil garbage filth.

    miten sasmita
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh wait till you read the quran. It says men can marry 4 wives, that women is a walking vagina thus she has to cover most of her body, and if a good man dies he goes to endless orgy party with beautiful fairies till the end of time. What a wonderfully mysoginist book.

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    Hermione Granger
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Unless this is a devotional, it seems unnecessary.

    Jasmina Pavlovic
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Every "holy" book is just a collection of old folktales, fantasy and lots of c**p. Some things are so unbelievable it is laughable.. 😖👎

    Kjorn
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    should've been written by one. society would've been lot different. and not just the bible...

    Kostas
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    this one does not belong in here. religions in general are gendered and stupid

    Christel Nellemann
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wait whhat... so the parts that tellwomen to obey and stay silent in groups etc are in extra bold letters ?? Barf...

    Sofia Bellavista
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It contains one sentence: "women must be silent and let men do whatever they want with them."

    Kirsten Kerkhof
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Have all misogynistic parts been removed or altered in this Woman's Bible? Because if they've been removed, I think I can handle a 3-page pamphlet ...

    Eulalie Grace
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    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I personally know women who have been convinced that they, AND their daughters, are nothing more than, and I quote - "A vessel for the man's seed". I almost died when I heard an acquaintance's 10 YO daughter say THAT!. You can thank any Fundamental Christian (?) group for those wonderful ways of keeping women in their place. ANYONE who takes the KJV version of the Bible as a way to RULE their family scares the living f' out of me. My daughter is NO ONE'S vessel.

    Jaybird3939
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Wow! They really are serious about keeping men and women separate!

    Rita Frost
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Oh I dunno, less smiting is always good, and I could do with that loaves and fishes recipe.

    Linda Robinett
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When people have made specialty Bibles, it is the commentary and list of recommended verses that change.

    ej wey
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Better yet wheres the Quran for women. Ouch

    Living_Shadow
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There is none. The Quran is for all genders, races, and people

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    Jessica
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Is it really a bible or is a girl code book

    Lex Ellyss
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    No they edited out everything else so Christian women can be trained to be submissive that much quicker!

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    PJ
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Maybe it leaves out all the patriarchal bs and recognizes Mary Magdalene, but I doubt it.

    Becca Gizmo the Squirrel
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I think it's more like a daily devotional bible. Kinda like how some churches do separate men's and women's bible studies. Still doesn't make it ok.

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    Living_Shadow
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I love how so many triggered Christians here are bringing up the Qur'an to try to say "Hey I know our book sounds bad rn, but look at THESE people!" Hah. Idiots. They haven't even read the Qur'an. Had they read it, they would realize that all the sexist, evil things the Middle East is doing to their women were never stated in the Qur'an. They (the sexism) stem from misinterpretations, not realizing that the Quran was written in the context of an older time and thus some things don't apply anymore or have changed, or they come from a set of writings called Hadiths. Hadiths are things that the prophet reportedly said or did and cannot be trusted because they were documented centuries after his death. This is where the sexism in the ME comes from. These are all serious issues, but don't go around saying our religion is this and that when you don't even know the whole situation or reality. Majority of muslims do not stand for sexism and hate. We want change as well.

    Living_Shadow
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I want the cowards downvoting my s**t to reply. But they won't reply because they can't even counter my points with valid evidence that isn't from their biased sources. This world loves to hate people, and when someone tries to prove their hate wrong, they'd rather die before they admit it. Keep downvoting, you haters. Live in your twisted mind, keep hating a whole group of people without realizing your own governments killed more of the them than they have killed yours. That they are suffering, they have bad people among them as well, but you like to think they are all bad. Keep doing it. its all a lie.

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    Erika Jones
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Have all the characters been gender swapped?

    Devyn Nagy
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's a lot of upvotes for a comment like that. :(

    Mónica Sacco
    Community Member
    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So, Moses is a girl? What about Jacob: has he become Dinah mother of the 12 tribes? Gimme a break!

    Eniko Bata
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    I don’t think it’s the real bible...

    Sharon Ingram
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    All the comments from people who don’t have a clue.

    Sofia Bellavista
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Actually most atheists studied the Bible or were raised by religious families, and became atheists BECAUSE they have a very good, objective understanding of both the bible and the religious communities.

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    A Water Bottle
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    5 years ago (edited)

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    People. Keep your opinions about the Bible to yourself. Some people like me are devoted to it. I understand that most of you are atheists, which isn’t bad, but before you are spreading BS about someone’s religion learn about it. A google search won’t exactly always tell you accurate religious stories.

    Terd Fergison
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Water B******e, tell me specifically what I said that was incorrect. And show citation.

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    *sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby
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    Can y'all please keep your religious beliefs to yourself? Please? Words hurt, man. And yes, some smart women CAN stay Christian after reading the bible. Please stop trying to disprove others. Let people do what makes them happy, as long as it's not hurting others. What y'all are doing by saying all of this stuff is hurting other people just because you have an opinion and you chose the worst way possible to say it. Please, just be nice. Some people reading this may be going through stuff, and church may be the only good thing goin for them. Just please be more considerate of other's feelings. And no, the bible does not say that rape is okay. It hasn't been updated to modern times, and marrying the man who got you pregnant was just the way of the world back then. Plus, then the man has to live with the guilt of knowing he raped a woman, the woman he ended up marrying, for the rest of his life, and that child is a product of his greed and lack of self-control. Say stuff to benefit others

    Terd Fergison
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yellow Tubby, please read the bible from beginning to end on your own without anyone spinning it for you. There are passages about dashing babies against rocks. There is a song about killing people with the jaw bone of an donkey. There is a story with a talking donkey in it. This is a fundamentally stupid, rapey, book full of incest. A hard truth is better than a comforting lie. Embrace the truth. Is the talking donkey real? No. And the world is better for it.

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    Vanities
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    Hey liberals. How about that Quran? You would fall all over Muslims that stone their women while hating on Christians. Stupid or evil...both.

    Terd Fergison
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I speak out about the evils that muslim people do too. I speak about evils that secular people do too. I'm not worried about offending anyone.

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    WillemPenn
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    TBF if men let women read the real Bible, Jesus might put silly ideas about equality and respect into their heads.

    CP
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I like how you conveniently ignore the old testament. The Bible is not about equality of the sexes.

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    Lily Mac Dennard
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    this could very easily be a bible helping with women's problems.

    Monika Soffronow
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You mean like the best way to choose which one of your children to sacrifice? Or what to wear when you marry the violent bastard who broke into your home and raped you? Or how to never speak your mind?

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    Charlese Bonca
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    Most Bible apps are more than just a Bible, they have lessons and specific teachings. So this one is for women? So what.

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    This is most likes a bible app that has bible studies and reading geared towards women... not gender based because only women are allowed to read the Bible, even Jesus is very clear that women and men have different roles and issues

    Nora H.
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How and why are women supposed to read the Bible different from men? And in what way do women and men nowadays have different roles and issues? Please join 2020.

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    Johane Moller
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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.

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    Kaisu
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Now this kind of gendering of products is problematic. Just making a blue and pink product isn't gendering, but this is just really icky and not the way boys and girls should be taught to think about themselves.

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    Dirk Daring
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Point made on this one, but at least they didn't add the pink tax.

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    Avital Pilpel
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Well, let's just say it's probably because "I went through a whole box of tissues during that movie" means something COMPLETELY DIFFERENT for men and women.

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    I’m Foxxy and I know it 😉
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Cards against humanity brought out the “for her” set as a jab at the “pink tax”. Maybe have a read up on it.

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    Kaisu
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    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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    Ninja Kitty
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    NO FAIR~! I WANT ONE WITH BURGER KING ON THE GIRLS SIDE!!! >:{

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    Dirk Daring
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Every person who has never found their name printed on a souvenir is really ticked at Eetu right now.

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    misteriosa
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I have a boy and two girls, and we always buy only "boys" ones because they have cooler toys.

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    Purple light
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    When I played Monopoly ages ago, it had tiny player pieces: a dog, racecar, hat, iron and others. I can't remember playing as a woman ( or man)

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    Lingon
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The next scientific report I write, will be written with these.

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    misteriosa
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    How did they manage to gender divide those? o.O

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    I’m Foxxy and I know it 😉
    Community Member
    5 years ago (edited) Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Where does it say it’s for guys? it says “the Arsenal ultimate grooming set”. Arsenal is another term for an array of services/equipment used for a certain purpose. Nothing to do with gender.

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    MonsterMum
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Man yoghurt brings an entirely different thing to my mind

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    Kaisu
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Why do you have to gender edible products, it makes zero sense. I don't think the foods and tastes you like has anything to do with your gender??

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    I’m Foxxy and I know it 😉
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    There are men and women vitamins and protein powders etc because fact is men and women often have differing nutritional needs.

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    Lauren Ricard
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hate gendered products. "For her" has extra iron in it. Just label it "with extra iron" - does the same trick. If you don't know why the extra iron would be necessary, the gendered version won't be very appealing to you either!

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    Amy Smith
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    5 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I remember the "it's not for girls ads". Even as a kid it pissed me off

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