Comments on: Pink

By: Knotted Knickers

Knotted Knickers — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Wow. I thought maybe you were making up that shit about the Jills and the Jillified stores. I *hoped* that you were making it up. But it’s hard to parody the patriarchy’s own parody, enit?

By: rachel

rachel — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Wow. This makes me want to go to best buy, bedecked in all my suburban housewife best, pink, naturally, and fumble around helplessly, looking for one of those, what do you call it, “computer” thingies…or maybe a “digital camera” I think it’s called??

And yes, it is sadly true. My boss and I got type cast as the cute hipster (gag) mid 30’s couple when buying our digital camera for work. Dude, don’t make those kind of joking comments, he’s my BOSS, not my boyfriend.

By: clew

clew — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Someone ought to make a T-shirt that says “Math is hard, and I’m good at it.” I’m too lazy, and terrible at graphic design, but I know there’s a market.

By: John M. Burt

John M. Burt — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I shudder to think what, say, a baby-clothing shop would look like after it had been “Jacked”, but it would probably involve a staff person hastily tossing on a sport coat and slapping on a moustache before jabbing Jack in the ribs and saying “Congratulations, sport, takes a real man to knock a broad up, don’t it! Now, let’s have a look at some of this baby stuff, eh?”

By: Travelling Punk

Travelling Punk — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Good GOD! Who are these people that come up with these stupid insulting ideas!

Sure some people (men and wonmen)are intimidated by all that showy giga-gadgetry crap - but I’m damn sure they don’t want to be patronised because of it!

I know for a fact that depsite being myself called Gill I would do a damn site better in a computer/electrinocs shop that my partner, who is complete technophobe and cannot programme the video recorder, the phone, the timer plugs - anything!

By: Sylvanite

Sylvanite — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Aaagh! I’ve seen tool sets “for women” in catalogs that are all pink. I don’t like pink! When I finally decided that I needed some tools, I bought a set the Sharper Image was selling. It’s compact, has a decent number of sturdy tools, and the main selling point? It isn’t pink. Why do marketers feel that women have to be condescended to? Do market sudies actually show that women would prefer pink hammers and ratchet sets?

By: Finn

Finn — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

>”Congratulations, sport, takes a real man to knock a broad up, don’t it! Now, let’s have a look at some of this baby stuff, eh?”< Let's see if this link works...

http://makeashorterlink.com/?M47452DAB

By: Finn

Finn — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Sylvanite sez:

“When I finally decided that I needed some tools, I bought a set the Sharper Image was selling.”

I sez:

You were still target-marketed and the recipient of condescension (or you were just plain ripped off). Whether it was pink-ification for your femalery, or sharper-image-ized for your yuppy renaissance-person uniqueness quotient, it’s the same thing.

Quality tools can be purchased for reasonable prices at your local hardware store and other places where yuppies and Jills stereotypically fear to tread. At Sharper Image, you probably paid about 3 times what the tools are really worth.

Not sure why I’m pointing it out, but it does seem funny that you feel proud for avoiding the Jill label, but got sucked in to Sharper Image, one of my all-time favorite targets for marketing a lifestyle rather than a quality product.

(eek, that’s an ugly sentence)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

I always shop at Small Chain Stereo and Video. These stores tend to take their customers more seriously. When I was shopping for a complete new system, I went to one such store, where my concerns and my needs were taken into account and I was consulted and everything discussed and decided on to fit my needs. And that was with my Dad in tow, cause he likes to shop for electronics. Right behind this particular Small Chain store is a Best Buy. I feel for the suckers that shop there; my guys were even willing to drive almost 2 hours to my new digs to set everything up for me JUST THE WAY I WANTED it. Then, when I moved, they came to my new place to do the same thing. Try getting that service from Best Buy. And I didn’t even get Jilled!

By: Adam Ash

Adam Ash — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000

Twisty, I love you. If you were a painting, I’d hang you in my parlor. If you were a book, you’d be on my bedside table. If you were a radio program, I’d leave you on all day.

(I’m waiting for an opportunity to declare same on Bitch Ph.D.)