[UbuntuWomen] Ubuntu4girls projetc

[Caroline Ford]

On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 04:04 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote:
> Op zondag 30-09-2007 om 02:35 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Caroline
> Ford:
> > On Sun, 2007-09-30 at 03:25 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote:
> > > Op vrijdag 28-09-2007 om 16:25 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Caroline
> > > Ford:
> > > > I have just bought a new mobile phone - the first shop I went to only
> > > > had phones in pink. Naturally I went somewhere else..
> > > 
> > > What's wrong with pink phones?
> > 
> > Would *you* buy a pink phone?
> 
> I bought my phone because it was the cheapest usable phone in the shop,
> so, maybe if that one would have been pink instead of blue... I wouldn't
> rule that out?
> 
> (Of course I would maybe have paid 10-20 euro extra for a phone if I
> really liked its design & features better, but actually this 50 euro
> phone has one of the better designs I ever saw on a mobile phone... :P )

Well here a pink phone for a male would be seen as "gay". Pink phones
are targeted at girls only and it seems to be the current fashion to get
women to use technology by releasing it in pink with cliched
advertising! (This isn't close to what women actually want fwiw)

I could think of nothing worse than using technology branded as safe and
designed for girls. I don't want to be patronised, made to feel
insecure, have it made extra simple or any of that crap. I will always
use the best that is out there (that I can afford) and avoid any
sexist/gendered advertising. 

If two things are identical and one is neutral and one is marketed as
"the one for girls" I would feel ashamed to have the latter. There is an
underlying assumption that women are stupid, decorative, shallow, vain,
insecure and need special "pretty" stuff. I very happily stick two
fingers up at those people. I am not rewarding people who sell
offensive, sexist, backwards products.

Caroline
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