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The entire essay is about how pinterest is a modern scrapbook for women, and has one line flatly and bizarrely stating that it is not feminine. How not?

• rcthompson 15y ago
  I think it means that Pinterest is a modern scrapbook for women who make scrapbooks, not all women. Not representative of an entire gender, but of a subset.
• andrewcooke 15y ago
  i think that it's making an implicit distinction (which might not exist) between social and biological cause. the argument is that it's rooted in a social activity, which might be (implicitly, is) constructed / learnt, rather than innate. (and it's a better article than i expected - credit for being honest enough to detail the "defined by consumption" aspect in fairly neutral terms (or maybe it's just the male in me that finds that a little crass? don't you know that all value comes from winning the game?))
  • mattgreenrocks 15y ago
    > don't you know that all value comes from winning the game? All value comes from bowing out of the game...at which point you win.
  • Tichy 15y ago
    I find the materialism of it very off putting.
• Qz 15y ago
  That line is in response to the question, 'Is Pinterest fundamentally feminine in some way?' The answer of no in that context is that Pinterest is a derivative behavior associated with 'women's magazines' which is also not fundamentally feminine.