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"The new fragrance, for her" "Manpurse" (as in, saying "purse" implies "woman") Razors for men and for women, exactly the same thing but one is pink, one is b

"The new fragrance, for her" "Manpurse" (as in, saying "purse" implies "woman") Razors for men and for women, exactly the same thing but one is pink, one is blue Bicycles for women with different frames (because they always wear skirts, y'know) Running shoes for women (pink) and men (blue) I could go on...

throwanem 10y ago
> Bicycles for women with different frames This one in particular I never quite grasped. I mean, there've been a couple times, when I stopped short and came off the seat and pedals, that I really wished, in an extremely immediate and visceral fashion, that my bike's top tube wasn't quite where it was. On the other hand, I suppose the "women's bike" design probably lacks something in rigidity by comparison, so I suppose there's an argument either way.
- jharger 10y ago
  So I had heard that women's bikes were designed that way to allow room for riding in a dress. Apparently people still do this: https://letsgorideabike.com/2012/06/04/how-to-bicycling-in-a-long-dress/ https://letsgorideabike.com/2012/06/04/how-to-bicycling-in-a...
  - soylentcola 10y ago
    That's exactly what I've always been told. If you're wearing a skirt/dress, the bar on a guy's bike will push your skirt up and create a scandal :O So "girls' bikes" have a dip in the bar so there's room for a skirt/dress. Still, I wonder if there's a reason they just didn't make all bikes like this to make it cheaper for the manufacturers. I'd imagine the straight bar could offer more rigidity or I guess maybe it costs slightly more to make the curved version with a longer bar and the process of making the curve. If that's the case, I guess margin-shaving bike manufacturers only made as many of the curved model cycles as they had to in order to address the demand from skirt/dress-wearing customers.

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"The new fragrance, for her" "Manpurse" (as in, saying "purse" implies "woman") Razors for men and for women, exactly the same thing but one is pink, one is b

by semi-extrinsic 10y ago

throwanem 10y ago
> Bicycles for women with different frames This one in particular I never quite grasped. I mean, there've been a couple times, when I stopped short and came off the seat and pedals, that I really wished, in an extremely immediate and visceral fashion, that my bike's top tube wasn't quite where it was. On the other hand, I suppose the "women's bike" design probably lacks something in rigidity by comparison, so I suppose there's an argument either way.
- jharger 10y ago
  So I had heard that women's bikes were designed that way to allow room for riding in a dress. Apparently people still do this: https://letsgorideabike.com/2012/06/04/how-to-bicycling-in-a-long-dress/ https://letsgorideabike.com/2012/06/04/how-to-bicycling-in-a...
  - soylentcola 10y ago
    That's exactly what I've always been told. If you're wearing a skirt/dress, the bar on a guy's bike will push your skirt up and create a scandal :O So "girls' bikes" have a dip in the bar so there's room for a skirt/dress. Still, I wonder if there's a reason they just didn't make all bikes like this to make it cheaper for the manufacturers. I'd imagine the straight bar could offer more rigidity or I guess maybe it costs slightly more to make the curved version with a longer bar and the process of making the curve. If that's the case, I guess margin-shaving bike manufacturers only made as many of the curved model cycles as they had to in order to address the demand from skirt/dress-wearing customers.