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Re: Shop with a Girl

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Post by partywithalocal » Tue, Oct 21, 2014, 9:50 PM UTC

drglitch wrote: post #49

partywithalocal wrote: post #45

Well that escalated quickly. It is a bit of a tongue in cheek, very early-stage, idea and the name definitely divides opinion, but pretty surprised how strongly people feel about it. Despite all the public negative comments here about how unbelievably sexist it is, private feedback has been positive - from both sexes, and in fact more females are signing up on the site than males at the moment... what does this mean?

based on the other comment, i see you're the submitter? I like the username - i guess thats the next show-nh we should expect? :) I think the opinions given are very relevant - people just feel strongly about unnecessary stereotypes, most of which either disappear or become a fixable "skill" by adulthood. It would seem that advice given here is: focus on the more mature audience. As an aside (based on your username a…

Cheers. Party with a Local is already launched and is indeed the more serious startup http://partywithalocal.com

Re: Shop with a Girl

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Post by genericuser » Tue, Oct 21, 2014, 10:25 PM UTC

grub5000 wrote: post #20

genericuser wrote: post #11

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>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. Yeah I guess I transitioned from denial about it being due to my nerd status to "why don't I have any friends at all, am I really that horrible" around the age of 20. Around 30 I just came to accept being alone, and having given up it matters very littl…

Gaining female friends is a learn-able skill, sir.

Yes, and so is sending a space craft to mars. Was there a point to saying it is learn-able?

Lots of things are learn-able skills, different people will require different amounts of time to learn different skills. It is up to them to make rational decisions on whether its worth it for them to continue learning those skills.

At some point I realized making friends male or female was not a skill worth the unknown further amount of time it would take me to learn. I was not going to fall for a sunk cost fallacy, just because I had spent years trying to make friends and failing.

Re: Shop with a Girl

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Post by iterationx » Tue, Oct 21, 2014, 11:04 PM UTC

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #32

teddyh wrote: post #28

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> 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.

Only if your identity is affected by every ad you read...have some backbone. This is a cool thing, for those that need it. No more stereotyped than "I let my spouse buy my clothes because I have no sense of style". Its just a statement, true for some people. Its got nothing at all to do with anybody's identity.

You're being browbeaten by the gender police, don't bother arguing, its pointless.