Highlights from the #MasculinitySoFragile hashtag that’s blowing up on Twitter

@katz – Aside from the pepto pink, tools designed for smaller hands are actually pretty cool.

Many such products (and tech) are designed by and for people with (on average) larger hands than (again, on average) most CIS women have.

…I’m still waiting for Pebble to come out with something that won’t make me look like a child trying on Daddy’s accessories.

@scented fucking hard chairs
that trimmer is ridiculous, but imo it doesn’t beat q-tips. they have packaging gendered for men and for women and afaik, the swabs are exactly the same… not even changing the color on the actual product there.

and in general, I don’t know whether to laugh or cry at this. I thought I’d seen plenty of stuff like this but fuuuuuuck, there’s so much more, and much more stupid, than I’d imagined. it’s pathetic… and the most worrying thing about it is that it MUST BE WORKING. what the hell are wrong with my fellow male human that many apparently go “Well, I had no interest in yogurt, but I see that it’s FOR MEN so sign me the fuck up!”?

Nope. . . I dunno how to do it, but the tweet was pretty funny, a gif of a commercial where a woman hands a man her purse and he acts like he’s been handed dog poop and covers it with a plastic bag.

My wife says the advantage of pink tools is that the guys never tried to steal them.

Ack…should read “steel GREY”, not grety.

Over this side of the pond, we have http://www.manflu.com

And, yes, those are real products.

I don’t know about all of you but I think all of this is hilarious and I admit I think some of the products are pretty cool especially the bic pens reviews! ????

I’m glad I bought those pens too because before all I could draw was guns and penises now with bic pens ‘for her’ I can draw cats and unicorns thanks bic! ????
but of course there are guys in the comments/reviews who just have to ruin everything or maybe they’re just making fun too.

Guys, just do or buy what you want to do or buy if you are just buying/doing to impress your buddies or scared of being unmanly to others tell me who are the true strong ones; the person who is scared of being seen as unmanly, do what others tell them to do and get upset/overreact over the tiniest thing OR the person doing/buying things that they want to do/think is right without worrying about what others think (as long as that person is not hurting themselves or others)?

Katz:

Also a lot of those products, like the cleaning products, are packaged that way to soothe their egos so they won’t feel bad about doing things that they should never have had a problem doing in the first place. I can’t think of many female-marketed things with that angle.

And that’s kinda where the whole hashtag comes from. The fact they need packaging to “sooth their egos.” The fragility of the “male ego.” Like if I beat a guy at a video game, it’s somehow worse than a guy winning because I bruised their ego. People didn’t want girls playing little league because if girls did better, it’d hurt the boys’ feelings. Oh no, he wasn’t just struck out, he was struck out by a girl! And of course this fragility is interspersed with misogyny because most of the “for men” stuff are countering things that are often perceived for women. Lame.

I’m a man and I’d never be tempted to buy any of this stuff, but I don’t really understand why it’s any more laughable for guys to buy into it than it is for women to purchase ultra-feminine products. I’m pretty sure that a lot of the men who would buy this stuff are doing it at least semi-ironically.

I’ve just been rereading Reflecting Men at Twice Their Natural Size, and it starts out with a discussion of ‘the male ego’. Something along the lines of ‘every woman knows about the Male Ego. It is a fragile and delicate thing, and it’s the responsibility of every woman to protect it at all costs. Women, it seems, don’t have egos.’

And when we overlay this obviously socially constructed phenomenon with the popular trans activists view on gender as a biological construct we get?

Deadcatclub
Read the comments above they explained it already.

Seconding Nick here — the two-surface scrubby thing is actually pretty handy, so much so I’m willing to pay a premium for it, despite its Axe branding. I’m surprised Unilever hasn’t marketed it under one of its women’s brands.