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I can't remember what thread it was in. But sometime back in Christmas, someone posted a story about an older brother who bought a video game for his younger brother. Then the father made a fuss about the game or the controller being "girlish" and giving the younger son a hard time for it.
Well, a couple days ago when I picked up a second shift at the Red Bullseye, I found that gender bias happens outside of the Pen 15 club.
Had a mother and daughter team. The daughter could have been sixteen, seventeen, or probably eighteen. She was definitely an inch taller than her mother.
As I'm ringing her up, this exchange takes place.
Mother: This is a man's razor.
Daughter: It doesn't matter, it's the same thing.
Mother: But honey, it's a man's razor.
I get a glimpse of the razors. They're Gillette and they are marketed towards men. But the only difference I can personally see between these and the ones marketed towards women is that these ones are black and gray. So maybe I'm mistaken here, but I am kind of on the daughter's side here and I very tactfully pointed out that black is a gender neutral color. The mother capitulates, but it doesn't end with the razor.
Mother: (In a very condescending tone) Honey, you don't need this. It's for men.
This time the argument is over a can of Axe body spray. The daughter insisted that she that it made no difference to her. She was standing her ground, but her mother kept insisting that her daughter's choices were incorrect based purely on where the plumming was located. And when the mother stood her ground and put the Axe aside the daughter didn't pursue it, the way most of us know that we're not going to win when our parents are being unreasonable but are still holding all of the cards.
When I saw what kind of Axe it was, I could see that it wasn't the kind specifically marketed towards women, but in my honest view, just because the scent may have been marketed towards men it didn't mean that there's a set in stone rule that you need a penis to use it. I mean I've used womens' shaving gel and womens' deodorant and I didn't suddenly sprout breasts. So I didn't personally see where the daughter was in the wrong for her choices.
I should also point out that the daughter wasn't being entitled or nasty towards her mother. I give her additional points for being mature enough to let it drop, knowing that it was her mother paying for everything. But if I were her I'd go back to the store with my own money, buy the body spray and leave it in a place where her mother would find it just to really drive the point home.
Well, a couple days ago when I picked up a second shift at the Red Bullseye, I found that gender bias happens outside of the Pen 15 club.
Had a mother and daughter team. The daughter could have been sixteen, seventeen, or probably eighteen. She was definitely an inch taller than her mother.
As I'm ringing her up, this exchange takes place.
Mother: This is a man's razor.
Daughter: It doesn't matter, it's the same thing.
Mother: But honey, it's a man's razor.
I get a glimpse of the razors. They're Gillette and they are marketed towards men. But the only difference I can personally see between these and the ones marketed towards women is that these ones are black and gray. So maybe I'm mistaken here, but I am kind of on the daughter's side here and I very tactfully pointed out that black is a gender neutral color. The mother capitulates, but it doesn't end with the razor.
Mother: (In a very condescending tone) Honey, you don't need this. It's for men.
This time the argument is over a can of Axe body spray. The daughter insisted that she that it made no difference to her. She was standing her ground, but her mother kept insisting that her daughter's choices were incorrect based purely on where the plumming was located. And when the mother stood her ground and put the Axe aside the daughter didn't pursue it, the way most of us know that we're not going to win when our parents are being unreasonable but are still holding all of the cards.
When I saw what kind of Axe it was, I could see that it wasn't the kind specifically marketed towards women, but in my honest view, just because the scent may have been marketed towards men it didn't mean that there's a set in stone rule that you need a penis to use it. I mean I've used womens' shaving gel and womens' deodorant and I didn't suddenly sprout breasts. So I didn't personally see where the daughter was in the wrong for her choices.
I should also point out that the daughter wasn't being entitled or nasty towards her mother. I give her additional points for being mature enough to let it drop, knowing that it was her mother paying for everything. But if I were her I'd go back to the store with my own money, buy the body spray and leave it in a place where her mother would find it just to really drive the point home.
Sis is no where near as bad as she was, but she's still pretty sensitive to what people think of her clothes.
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