Pointlessly Gendered Product - Christmas Competition

[brand]

Someone tell me what RSBB means?

 

[fimm]

RTFT, surely? (as in , Read The Fine Manual)

 

[coffeejo]

Too many TLAs and FLAs.......

 

[Arch]

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

As you know, I am not a bloke, but if I may reply anyway...

A lot of the pink/floral stuff tends to be a no-brand type of thing. I think, unless it was specifically branded with a good name, I would assume that a tool like that was made of cheese metal. The sort of thing you buy as a gift for someone in the expectation that it won't really be used.

 

[srw]

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?

Exactly.

THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW
Go Girl is a trading brand of Sabre Insurance Company Limited.

http://gogirl.co.uk/things-you-need-to-know/

THere are several similar brands - Drive like a girl (part of insurethebox, a telematics specialist), Diamond (part of Admiral), girlmotor.com (a trading name of hyperperformance ltd), ladyinsure.co.uk (a trading name of Quoteline direct). Where the branding is applied by an insurer as opposed to a broker I'd bet good money that the underlying pricing algorithm is the same as the standard algorithm, with perhaps a tweak or two. The one thing they're not allowed to do is turn away men.

The pinkness and the girliness of the websites is depressing.

 

[Fnaar]

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

Miss Goodbody up the road is fond of the pink tools she uses on a regular basis. I have a big purple one that she puts to good use now and again up her allotment.

 

[Ganymede]

Miss Goodbody up the road is fond of the pink tools she uses on a regular basis. I have a big purple one that she puts to good use now and again up her allotment.

Fnaar, are you saying that your a pointfully gendered product?

 

[Ganymede]

Just watching the TV... advert for

pinkcasino.co.uk

Gambling for ladies... games based on kittens or Cleopatra or Pixies of the Forest.

Mr G and I just sat with our mouths agape.

 

[stephec]

Just watching the TV... advert for

pinkcasino.co.uk

Gambling for ladies... games based on kittens or Cleopatra or Pixies of the Forest.

Mr G and I just sat with our mouths agape.

What could you win, handbags and shoes?

 

[Ganymede]

What could you win, handbags and shoes?

I think the main point is that you lose... lots of money of any colour!

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Christmas award should go to Karen* - http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...gesting-superheroes-are-for-boys-9882725.html

*EDIT: I mean Maggie - Karen's her mum

 

[Crackle]

Christmas award should go to Karen* - http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...gesting-superheroes-are-for-boys-9882725.html

*EDIT: I mean Maggie - Karen's her mum

Great picture

 

[jefmcg]

The most heinous example of pointlessly gendered toys I have seen was in a Lego catalogue about 10 years ago. Everything in the catalogue was gendered, including their brilliant Mindstorms range which was for boys only, leaving some terrible pink castles and princesses for the girls - the sort of pre-formed lego that can only really build one thing, so not even creating very creative play within that limited pink/princess dominion.

Besides anything else, why were they denying themselves the sales from girls who might enjoy Mindstorms?

What had particularly shocked me about this, was that just a year or two before this, Lego had been named "Toy of the 20th century". It went counter to what I felt Lego was about.

But it turns out not only was I shocked by lego restricting it's toys to boys, so would have been the Lego staff circa 1974

 

[coffeejo]

A treat from Pets at Home:

 

[Sara_H]

When I started seeing my very manly OH, he had a pink blackberry, which had been got at a bargain price in a sale.
He is a nurse though, you have to be very assured if your masculinity to survive in that culture.