So many companies are dumb and only advertise to women on products that can be used for everyone.
Me and my 2 Litre, $3 "Jug-O-Body-Wash" feel called out.
Mens boots, cargo shorts, overalls, and hats are a god damn vibe. Just the sheer fucking quality.
WHY CANT I HAVE THE LUXURY OF AQUIRING GOOD CARGO SHORTS!! WHYYYY
My boots’ gender is work. I’m the lady in steel toe work boots regardless of where I am because it’s both an aesthetic and because they’re broken in
I just want to smell like something other than tree, cold tree, or beach episode tree.
I'd prefer not to have any smell, but that is apparently really hard to do.
And why do all products for men have to look like I'm cosplaying a sci-fi tactical commando?
I have persistent skin issues (psoriasis) and most specialized products are unscented.
This may be the singular upside to this situation ^^`
I also prefer to have no smell, speed stick makes a unscented deodorant and I have a scentless body wash, havent found a good shampoo yet though. Just using head and shoulders.
Me at the grocery store yesterday: "These cookies look delicious! And they're 90% off!"
Wife: "Those are lactation cookies..."
Me: "I didn't know that was a thing... They still look good though..."
But did they taste good?
Lactation cookies ??? What is that ???
Cookies that came from tits ????Food that contains nutrition, galactagogues, and folk-remedy ingredients to help with (human) milk production. Arguably, they're just food.
And by higher quality they mean jammed full of things that don't actually enhance the product but just act as fillers to make it seem fancy
And the nature of which has to change every 3 months so that a new and improved version can come out.
The rule is buy the default-gendered variant. If there a special "men's section" or "women's section" for a certain product category it means you'll be ripped off.
Men's socks are higher durability
It's a lot more than socks. Went looking for a duffel coat once for work and checked both isles in stores. Mens coat - nice woven and well fulled 100 percent wool, thick quality stuff, Women's isle, cheaper felted wool half the thickness... Same price, same basic style, same store.
Ever since whenever I go looking for stuff I check both isles. Higher quality fabrics are generally reserved for men's items though women's stuff is priced the same. You'd never know the difference if you only shopped one gendered option.
From my experience all of mens clothes have higher durability. I could just be buying shitty clothes, but ill have ripped stitches and fallen buttons a week after purchase while my husband is still sporting the same 15 year old wardrobe with minimal damage. My shirts are so thin i can see clear through them and would need to layer 3 to match my husband's shirts. I dont purchase them off amazon/temu/etc, but it feels like that's where they came from most of time.
Fun fact:
The same ingredient is cheaper in monostat (for womens bits) than it is in tenactin/etc (for men's feeet/bits)
Me frequently accidentally buying women’s t-shirts cause I like those designs better.
Me frequently accidentally finding myself in the men isles after finally finding a top with a high neckline.
I have a nice Pikachu hoodie which said it's for women on the site I ordered it from but I didn't care because it's cute and I liked it. The only thing that's mildly annoying is having to think about the sizing difference (which I guess is kind of the point of the separate sizing numbers, just to be that extra bit of annoying for people who want it anyway).
Jokes on you, the buttons will be on the wrong side! Ahahahahaha
Edit: yes I know t-shirts don't have buttons. Bad attempt at humour. Not deleting because I stand behind my mistakes.
I hope you still rock em
As long as you buy the right size it shouldn't be an issue, most clothing in standardized sizes aren't much different between the genders besides the number being different (a men's size M will be a women's size S) so as long as you get the size right it'll be fine.
Products for women also smells better
It depends, I find that many of the Men's products can smell more "normal" and less rich.
But then there's old spice -- which I use daily but I don't think is as pleasant as women's deodorant scents (but generally work better in antiperspirant imo so it's not worth thinking too much about.)
Says you. I, personally, really enjoy the smell of teak.
All my men's products have completely artificial smells like "Cool Rush".
Me buying women's vitamins because they're the only ones with iron at the local dollar store.
I did that with buying "one-a-day" vitamins for seniors because they were a quarter the price of standard men's vitamins. I checked the stats and ingredients, they were about identical and from the same brand.
And remember, vitamins don't expire!
Earlier this year a doctor advised us (male and female) to take prenatal vitamins, and yesterday a nutritionist told us the same. They really just have everything anybody needs, apparently.
This isnt entirely related, but your comment made me think about the time I went into CVS to buy multivitamins and noticed all of the "men's" included a picture of an orange while the "women's" did not. All the other fruit pictured were the same between the two, but not oranges.
I do this. You'd be shocked at the number of womens supplements that don't have iron either.
Cheaper? My ass.
Men's depilatory cream costs around 30% more here, and it's the same product, except with a slightly different fragrance.
Most of the time I buy women's products because they are both cheaper and of higher quality.
This, in my case, is true for everything except razor blades.
I know a guy that used a women's hygiene product once by mistake. Now he's a she and doesn't have a penis anymore. Make sure your family knows the dangers involved of using the incorrect gendered hygiene product. It's like plugging a 120v appliance into the 240v outlet.
Good point, razor blades for thicker hair makes a discernable difference. Luckily, double edged safety razor and a steel handle make this category practically free
nowI have very course facial hair and switching to women's razors pretty much solved my post-shave irritation problem. In order of quality for my face it goes: men's disposable razor << safty razor < women's disposable razor.
Me with just a bar of soap for my whole body.
And then there's people buying the first thing they see just because it's in the right section.
Is using an old picture of Elliot Page --- and referencing women --- considererd poor form? Honest question, I really don't know the etiquette.
So general flow chart here starts with context. When an actor plays a character that character's gender is considered before the actor.
In this case this picture is from Umbrella Academy but before the character comes out as a trans man. The role was specifically altered for Page by the show runners to make the role more comfortable for the actor (he offered to delay transition goals for the production but the production being incredibly awesome decided that this was something they could flex) so this meme is referencing one of the most recognizable trans actors in the world in a part where the character's coming out was basically happening during Page's transition.
Since the character is trans but this pic is before the transition it follows real world etiquette where pre transition photos should use current preferences of identity.
So the answer is from the trans community standpoint is that unless you jumped out of the series before that reveal and were fully unaware then yeah, making this meme with this pic with this specific context is pretty gauche but an easy mistake.
The meme isn't really referencing the actor, but rather the character. Eliot might not be a woman, but the character is. When cis guys play female characters, we still refer to the character as female. I don't see why it should be any different when a trans guy plays a female character.
Actually the character is canonically a trans man named Victor.... This is from Umbrella Academy but before the character came out. You are correct in general respects just this example particularly is both of two men both canonically and non canonically so its actually kind of not super cool to use this particular image for this gag but largely forgivable if someone honestly was completely unaware of that context when making this meme which if you peaced out before the next season would be a very understandable mistake.
Vanya did transition to Victor in the show.
It’s a meme from a movie. Should they ban this movie now and destroy all copies?
TV show, not movie, but no, definitely not saying we should ban anything.
Given that the series handled his transition fairly head on, pretty sure no one wants to destroy the older seasons.
My only question was that this meme is directly referring to the top character as a woman. Most times I see this meme it doesn't have any references to gender ("morning shift going to work at 6am / night shift coming home at 6am," or something like that).
Is this why I keep seeing shit covered tampons in the mens room? I get that it's higher quality but come on.
