Pointlessly Gendered Product - Christmas Competition

[stephec]

Question for the men who wouldn't use pink tools / whatever. Do you mind if I ask why not? Just curious.

It wouldn't really bother me.

I've got a couple of pink shirts that I wear quite regularly as well.

 

[Mr Celine]

I've just been renewing my car insurance via comparison sites. The cheapest quote, which I have accepted, was from Go Girl Insurance. This is an internet only company so you have to print out your own documents, which of course came out barbie pink.

 

[theclaud]

It wouldn't really bother me.

I've got a couple of pink shirts that I wear quite regularly as well.

Pink shirts, paradoxically, have reversed their feminine connotations and become a signifier of hyper-masculinity. As in 'I'm such a RSBB that I can wear a pink shirt'.

 

[Ganymede]

I've just been renewing my car insurance via comparison sites. The cheapest quote, which I have accepted, was from Go Girl Insurance. This is an internet only company so you have to print out your own documents, which of course came out barbie pink.

That's a weird site. You're not supposed to discriminate by gender in selling insurance - is this a way of doing it without actually saying so? I mean, they don't say you have to be a woman to have their insurance, but it's completely aimed at women and I bet the majority of the people using the site to get quotes are female. Maybe by discouraging young blokes from using the site because of the pinkness, they are lowering their risk?

 

[Ganymede]

MY EYES!!!! MY EYES!!!! I'M BLIND!!!!!

 

[theclaud]

I'm not saying it always works...

 

[AndyRM]

Stade Francais' kit designer should be shot. That's not even the worst they've come up with.

 

[brand]

That's not actually pink, it's more of an uhmmmmm......oh my god they are DRESSED IN PINK that is just sick.

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[slowmotion]

You've got a big job ahead of you ....

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(it will be interesting how quickly google finds this thread, and thus gets a link for that search)

The search engine Duchduckgo.com seems to have an altogether more intelligent algorithm. RSBB turns up The Ramrod Gay Leather Bar in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. How did they know about the pink discussion here?
http://www.jumponmarkslist.com/us/f...i-leather-uniform-gay-bar-fort-lauderdale.php

 

[Turdus philomelos]

Nice thread. don't know how to post links (I'm a bloke so struggle to read instructions on how to) but this could be fun

Is this trait really gender specific? I our home it's me who doesn't read instructions, where as My John, he will pick through the instructions with a fine tooth comb.

 

[stephec]

Pink shirts, paradoxically, have reversed their feminine connotations and become a signifier of hyper-masculinity. As in 'I'm such a RSBB that I can wear a pink shirt'.

That's exactly what I thought, and that I just liked the look of them as well.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

It's an odd one, isn't it? I think because of the seemingly incessant feminisation of pink, wearing or using pink becomes seen as a distinctly - deliberate - feminine act. Remember that women have far greater choice in styles of clothing in the workplace (though presenting the TV news in the same suit for a year would not be acceptable for a woman - to other women). Women can quite acceptably dress in skirt or trousers in the average workplace. Men cannot turn up in skirts. (Tartanians on ceremonial occasions may get away with it.)

I was surprised a couple of years ago on a Sunday London Ride when a rider of this parish turned up in a pink Rapha jacket and picked up a fairly sustained amount of ribbing.

The daft thing is the pre-wwi (could have been pre-wwi) pink was considered a boys colour, blue was for girls and all babies are dressed in white.

 

[brand]

Pink shirts, paradoxically, have reversed their feminine connotations and become a signifier of hyper-masculinity. As in 'I'm such a RSBB that I can wear a pink shirt'.

Where!!

 

[brand]

Brighton

Enough said!!

 

[Beebo]

'I'm such a RSBB that I can wear a pink shirt'

That has to be a sig line for someone!