Comments on: Girls' crappy fake toy laptop is pink, and half as powerful as boys' crappy fake toy laptop

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 10:15:00 +0000

Maybe. I’ve literally just seen a range of toy vacuum cleaners in the girls section of the Argos catalogue so my faith in humanity has dwindled a little more.

By: MarieKersey

MarieKersey — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:26:00 +0000

But the pinksplosion in and of itself wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t always inseparable from inferiority. Can you imagine a world where the pink laptop is the one with twice as many “functions”? If it did, boys and parents would really take issue with what exactly made the pink one “for girls”, and rather soon pink would be gender neutral.

By: MarieKersey

MarieKersey — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 00:15:00 +0000

What I really want to see is the blue laptop having 50 functions, and the pink laptop having 75 functions. + SSD and an Intel Core i7 processor and 16 GB RAM.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 15:28:00 +0000

I knew this time was coming :(

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 15:25:00 +0000

Sadist.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 13:54:00 +0000

I didn’t, I said I was a little ashamed.

Hopefully you didn’t read the comment in isolation and so context should provide all the clues you need.

By: D

Sat, 01 Dec 2012 13:25:00 +0000

Why do you say you ae embarrassed of your gender?

By: NI MEN HAO-DY TRAMPOLINA

NI MEN HAO-DY TRAMPOLINA — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 18:22:00 +0000

FTP.

By: LYNDON

LYNDON — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 03:30:00 +0000

It’s not that girls don’t want the functionality, it’s just the best they can afford, what with the pay gap.

By: relawson

relawson — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:03:00 +0000

Hey, remember we’re not created male or female to begin with. That’s why we have nipples :D

By: Heather Cristofaro

Heather Cristofaro — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:40:00 +0000

In all fairness, it’s hard to fit all those electronics into recycled birth control pill containers…

By: ChickieD

ChickieD — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 14:41:00 +0000

No, you are not. My daughter just bought her first laptop and, in addition to being the right size and speed and all that, a huge reason she bought is PINK!!! Seems to work just as well as a blue one for reading all her Tumblr blogs and fangirl fiction.

By: Jonathan Roberts

Jonathan Roberts — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 05:18:00 +0000

I am not a scientist, but why would a mixture of different parts of the spectrum then need to be located at some definite point on the spectrum? Wouldn’t it be like saying “chords don’t exist” in music?

By: Jonathan Roberts

Jonathan Roberts — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 05:13:00 +0000

Am I the only one who loves these pink electronics? I mean, not this crappy toy laptop, but the actual pink versions of genuine items. They end up being the last to sell, then you can buy them for a hugely reduced price. I have a pink Canon camera and we bought my in-laws a pink laptop (which they really needed, but which we wouldn’t have been able to afford at a normal price). Our camera isn’t Barbie pink or anything and doesn’t stand out too much, so nobody has actually mentioned the colour to us.

By: Jonathan Roberts

Jonathan Roberts — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 04:49:00 +0000

I let my two year old use my electronic dictionary. It has a little keypad and a screen as well as minimal graphics and writes things when he presses the keys. He used to love putting it next to my laptop and copying me while I worked. More importantly, he stopped pressing the power button every few minutes.

By: Dlo Burns

Dlo Burns — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 03:57:00 +0000

I would get a crap-comp if it ran nethack.

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 03:23:00 +0000

I don’t know what it says about me, but I Prefer the clit-mouse…

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 03:19:00 +0000

You’d think the Celts would be all about making bikes with dipping centre bars for all those in traditional gear, might also sell well in many island nations

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 03:19:00 +0000

overall frame stiffness?

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:11:00 +0000

I’m clearly going to have to start enforcing the “Your IQ must be this high for you to go on this ride” rule.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:02:00 +0000

Boys playing with dolls is now “gender-bending”. They make it sound like children are being herded into reptilian gender-reassignment gulags.

By: eviladrian

eviladrian — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:54:00 +0000

The catalogue has “BOYS LAPTOP” and “GIRLS LAPTOP” written above the devices?

By: Sekino

Sekino — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:54:00 +0000

It’s written next to it in big blue letters.

By: Renee Bowman

Renee Bowman — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:41:00 +0000

So gender fairness preachers…. how did you decide the black/silver/blue one is for a boy? And the fact that you are all placing so much importance on a toddlers’overglorified calculator is merely perpetuating the issue in my opinion.

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:35:00 +0000

I’m reminded of the Barbie/Hot Wheels computers back in the late nineties, although there the situation was kind of reversed. The computers were pretty much identical specs, but they came with different accessories: the Hot Wheels computer came with a steering-wheel controller for the Hot Wheels game, and the Barbie computer came with… a digital camera. Which would you have rather had (given that digital cameras were still relatively rare–i.e. not everyone already had one on their phone)? I was actually thinking about getting one for myself, given that it was a fairly decent price for the package, but they turned out to not be able to meet demand, so it was a moot point. Oh, well, I’ll always dream of being the only thirty-something-year-old guy with a digital camera with a big pink flower on the front.

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:26:00 +0000

I was referring to the pinksplosion. Although reading it back I’d like to amend ‘just as frequently’ to ‘as well as’ – that was an accidental exaggeration.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 22:07:00 +0000

these stereotypes are perpetuated by women just as frequently as by men.

Run into a lot of women demanding less functional laptops, do you?

By: vrplumber

vrplumber — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:31:00 +0000

but can it run Crysis?

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:22:00 +0000

I was gonna say, they can’t even spell “it’s” right.

When selling products to small children, one could at *least* allow them to proofread for you.

By: ChickieD

ChickieD — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:15:00 +0000

This will make you feel all better:

http://rt.com/news/sweden-toys-catalogues-gender-527/