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.
Especially women’s. In French we call it “la taxe rose” (the pink tax).
it's called pink tax in English too
I mean unless it's a more expensive product marketed to men, in which case it's called an example of fragile masculinity.
the French have such a way with words, that's almost as good as "le cigarette will cause le cancer"
Not sure I appreciate the irony. But you’re correct that it sounds very similar in french.
One could say: “la cigarette va causer le cancer” although that sounds very “english” and is probably what someone who learnt french knowing english would say. The more “fluent” way would be “fumer peut mener au cancer”. But both are technically correct.
Damn, I wasn't expecting my daily French lesson yet here I am. I love this place man.
🍺 Cheers my friend.
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.
Off-topic comment.
I appreciate the misuse of isle instead of aisle. The mental imagery of navigating around stores compromised of isles makes me want to go shopping so I can go on an island hopping adventure looking for booty to haul back to my kingdom.
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?
Same reason "gamer" PC peripherals all look like Gigatron's nut sack.
I assume having no smell is really hard to do and to cover up the slight chemical smell they put a stronger smell over it. That being said I am definitely not a deodorant taste tester so 🤷♀️
... this makes me slightly suspicious that you are, in fact, a deodorant taste tester.
How about tree chopped into firewood?
Sawdust, yes.
Idle firewood loitering, no.
Burning tree bones, yes.
Vanilla cookies, fuck yes.
Me frequently accidentally buying women’s t-shirts cause I like those designs better.
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.
Me buying women's vitamins because they're the only ones with iron at the local dollar store.
I do this. You'd be shocked at the number of womens supplements that don't have iron either.
There's actually a really good reason for that. The body doesn't have a good way to get rid of excess iron except by bleeding, so it's fairly easy for someone without a period to get iron poisoning from vitamins with iron in them. Women's vitamins assume the person taking them loses a significant quantity of blood every month. Not only should men not take them, women whose birth control eliminates their period completely shouldn't take them either.
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
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..."
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.
Imagine being able to shoot cookies out your nips. That'd be fuckin' useful.
So many companies are dumb and only advertise to women on products that can be used for everyone.
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
Me and my 2 Litre, $3 "Jug-O-Body-Wash" feel called out.
Shampoo, body wash, laundry detergent, engine degreaser, drain cleaner, ant poison and steak sauce.
"𝓣𝓱𝓲𝓼 𝓕𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻 𝓦𝓪𝓼𝓱™︎ 𝓲𝓼 𝓭𝓮𝓼𝓲𝓰𝓷𝓮𝓭 𝓼𝓹𝓮𝓬𝓲𝓯𝓲𝓬𝓪𝓵𝓵𝔂 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓾𝓹𝓹𝓮𝓻 𝓹𝓪𝓻𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓵𝓮𝓯𝓽 𝓮𝔂𝓮𝓫𝓻𝓸𝔀."
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.
Poor guy shaved his penis off 😔 My condolences and best wishes
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 ~~now~~
Fun fact:
The same ingredient is cheaper in monostat (for womens bits) than it is in tenactin/etc (for men's feeet/bits)
Me with just a bar of soap for my whole body.
Or: "Men buying women's hygiene products, because they exist."
It's really hard for me to find some stuff at all.
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