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Re: Shop with a Girl

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Post by akama »

partywithalocal wrote: post #6
drglitch wrote: post #2

I presume this is supposed to appeal to the "i dont have any female friends because i am a nerd" crowd. Speaking from personal experience, this ends around 18-19 years of age. Unfortunately - in my opinion - at that age, an "average" guy can barely afford clothes, let alone a personal-shopper-girl he needs to pay money to for the privilege. For older guys, they almost certainly have a friend or a buddy's sister or wh…

I disagree. Older guys may have female friends, but I don't know any single friends (including myself when I was single) that ask female friends to go shopping with them - maybe they should, but they don't. I think it's a pretty big thing to ask a non-girlfriend/non-date to go out on a day shopping with you just to help you out. Maybe it's a stereotype, but it seems based on fact that a lot more girls enjoy shopping…

I'm really curious that the two services I have seen mentioned here, Trunk Club & The Cloakroom, have such high prices.

In personal experience I spend more on clothes then most of my friends but I would never spend that amount of money on certain pieces of clothing.

The Cloakroom lists t-shirts as being €30-€90 ($38-$114) which seems outrageously high.

Re: Shop with a Girl

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Post by Dewie »

drglitch wrote: post #2

I presume this is supposed to appeal to the "i dont have any female friends because i am a nerd" crowd. Speaking from personal experience, this ends around 18-19 years of age. Unfortunately - in my opinion - at that age, an "average" guy can barely afford clothes, let alone a personal-shopper-girl he needs to pay money to for the privilege. For older guys, they almost certainly have a friend or a buddy's sister or wh…

> I presume this is supposed to appeal to the "i dont have any female friends because i am a nerd" crowd.

And I suppose the purpose of this sentence is to shame them?

Re: Shop with a Girl

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Post by akama »

gk1 wrote: post #17

This just promotes a silly stereotype, like the old show "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy". I'm a guy who enjoys shopping for clothes (although I don't shop compulsively), and I know girls who don't. Of course there are people who could use help with shopping, but why make it gender-specific?

This was my reaction to this as well. Just in terms of personal comfort, I personally would prefer a guy stylist as well.

I don't see why they need to limit themselves to just one gender for customers or providers. They have just cut their market in half before they even began selling anything.

Re: Shop with a Girl

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Post by victorduffel »

teddyh wrote: post #15

Um, what? Is it only me, or does anyone else see the enormous inherent stereotyping in this as a bad thing ? People who actually like to go clothes shopping shouldn’t be made to feel like they should be categorized as “girls”, or vice versa, someone who finds clothes shopping to be uninteresting shouldn’t be made to feel like they ought to identify as a “guy”. There’s nothing wrong with the concept, but the conflatio…

No one is making you or anyone else to "feel" anything from this product. Frankly, as one of the stereotypical nerds out there, I'm interested in this product. I know I have no sense of style, pretty much and know there are some ladies out there who do.

Re: Shop with a Girl

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Post by Dewie »

2xlbuds wrote: post #13
skizm wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Speaking from personal experience, this ends around 18-19 years of age. Bad assumption.

Anecdotal, I know, but 18-19 is when most people go to college, and get to shed whatever labels they had in high school. It certainly happened that way with me and my college friends.

You mean going from a pretty gender balanced high school, to a department with a large majority of men? (we were talking about nerds here, and I am talking about things like CS departments, since this is HN.)

Re: Shop with a Girl

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Post by Dewie »

grub5000 wrote: post #18
drglitch wrote: post #2

I presume this is supposed to appeal to the "i dont have any female friends because i am a nerd" crowd. Speaking from personal experience, this ends around 18-19 years of age. Unfortunately - in my opinion - at that age, an "average" guy can barely afford clothes, let alone a personal-shopper-girl he needs to pay money to for the privilege. For older guys, they almost certainly have a friend or a buddy's sister or wh…

> eye brow plucking Is this really a thing?

I do it, though I guess I only initially made it worse. I can't go back now, though, since now it is unruly as hell if I don't do something about it.

Re: Shop with a Girl

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Post by teddyh »

victorduffel wrote: post #24
teddyh wrote: post #15

Um, what? Is it only me, or does anyone else see the enormous inherent stereotyping in this as a bad thing ? People who actually like to go clothes shopping shouldn’t be made to feel like they should be categorized as “girls”, or vice versa, someone who finds clothes shopping to be uninteresting shouldn’t be made to feel like they ought to identify as a “guy”. There’s nothing wrong with the concept, but the conflatio…

No one is making you or anyone else to "feel" anything from this product. Frankly, as one of the stereotypical nerds out there, I'm interested in this product. I know I have no sense of style, pretty much and know there are some ladies out there who do.

> No one is making you or anyone else to "feel" anything from this product.

I don’t understand this argument. Of course a narrative which consistently calls clothes shoppers “girls” and non-shoppers “guys” is going to affect the way I feel about my identity.

Re: Shop with a Girl

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Post by [deleted] »

grub5000 wrote: post #18
drglitch wrote: post #2

I presume this is supposed to appeal to the "i dont have any female friends because i am a nerd" crowd. Speaking from personal experience, this ends around 18-19 years of age. Unfortunately - in my opinion - at that age, an "average" guy can barely afford clothes, let alone a personal-shopper-girl he needs to pay money to for the privilege. For older guys, they almost certainly have a friend or a buddy's sister or wh…

> eye brow plucking Is this really a thing?

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