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Topic: Her Depot: Is this for real?
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M.Gregus
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Babbler # 13402
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posted 16 October 2007 06:26 AM
In addition to a shopping space that's "clean and neat" the way ladies like it, has mood lighting, and is stocked with flower-printed storage bins, I totally expect the sale of products like this:Tool set for women After all, studies say that women like pink! [ 16 October 2007: Message edited by: M.Gregus ]
From: capital region | Registered: Oct 2006
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Makwa
rabble-rouser
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posted 16 October 2007 10:04 AM
That the feminism forum should be hijacked for male yuks once again does not surprise me. However, this marketing idea does have a highly gendered component. When I was a young'un you went to the "lumber yard" at your peril, where you would have to confront an irritated clerk who wondered why you didn't know a 2'x4' from a 4'x4' and didn't know the difference between different grades of lumber and didn't have the time or interest to tell you before they scribbled out an unreadable work order. Then you had to drive around the back, where a cutter would sneer at your Mazda wankel rotary engine car and cut your pieces and thrown them at upi while he spitted out sawdust at your feet while you tried to shove them somehow between the badly tilting seats and the rear compartment (with the plastic 'third door' tilting wildly.The big box department stores offered you the luxury of taking the time to actually look at the wood you thought you wanted to buy before selling it to you at widly inflated prices, and offered at least the mirage of some reasonably friendly customer help. However, this took off to move to other special services like self service bathroom and kitchen renovation etc. which opened up the vista of many shoppers who were not merely uninformed men who wanted to play at being a doityourselfer. Its merely the logical progression of this marketing ploy. It will fail, as they realize that female shoppers, not unlike the dynamics of the stereotypical gender roles of asking for directions, have already taken the reins and learned enough to return to the surly play with the invoice servers.
From: Here at the glass - all the usual problems, the habitual farce | Registered: Oct 2005
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BitWhys
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posted 16 October 2007 09:27 PM
bitter reality.Like when I got the Afro to go with the polyester print shirt. I looked like me mom. I prefer to think I was turned onto punk early. Unlike what I would have done if I'd noticed the subforum this thing is in because I'll never know for sure. although I have my suspicions. and actually, the lighthouse isn't all that cheesy anyways.
From: the Peg | Registered: Nov 2006
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