Pinterest isn't feminine: An essay on ladymags and aspirational clipping
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Pinterest isn't feminine: An essay on ladymags and aspirational clipping
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Re: Pinterest isn't feminine: An essay on ladymags and aspirational clipping
#2Nice writeup! Glad someone's taking the casual talk about Pinterest and writing something interesting about it.
Re: Pinterest isn't feminine: An essay on ladymags and aspirational clipping
#3Would it be so bad if Pinterest were feminine? Why? It seems perfectly reasonable that women would have a big social network that appeals distinctly to them.
Re: Pinterest isn't feminine: An essay on ladymags and aspirational clipping
#4Ehh... It can be argued that Pinterest really is a female thing but the idea behind it most certainly isn't. Those two ideas seem contradictory but I think what makes it so appealing to women is the sharing part of it. Women love to share their needs and desires, especially material ones, publicly or so it seems.
Men definitely do similar things but they just don't share it. Just today I met with a founder and we were discussing ideas for his startup when he pulled out am iPad and showed me a scent sized collection of screen shots and images of features, designs, pricing plans for services, and other things he'd been collecting that he was mulling over using and wanted. There were also a number of folders in his collection that I did not see but am positive were full of clippings of other material things and ideas he wanted.
It's a lot like having an idea book for design or a box of junk except the junk isn't junk to you, only to everyone else. We all do it but I think the super social nature of women as far as these things go is makes it so appealing to women.
Or I'm a totally insensitive sexist who needs to shut up now. Either way I'm really not married to the idea it's just my take.
Re: Pinterest isn't feminine: An essay on ladymags and aspirational clipping
#5Ehh... It can be argued that Pinterest really is a female thing but the idea behind it most certainly isn't. Those two ideas seem contradictory but I think what makes it so appealing to women is the sharing part of it. Women love to share their needs and desires, especially material ones, publicly or so it seems. Men definitely do similar things but they just don't share it. Just today I met with a founder and we wer…
> totally insensitive sexist who needs to shut up now
Don't worry about this. Really. It's a very valid psychological observation that there's overall differences between men and women.
It's only sexist if you ignore that these differences can result from a large combination of socialization, upbringing, and culture (in addition to some genetics). It would only be sexist if you were being partial or biased in your analysis in a way that favored a gender.
Re: Pinterest isn't feminine: An essay on ladymags and aspirational clipping
#6The entire essay is about how pinterest is a modern scrapbook for women, and has one line flatly and bizarrely stating that it is not feminine. How not?
Re: Pinterest isn't feminine: An essay on ladymags and aspirational clipping
#7Ehh... It can be argued that Pinterest really is a female thing but the idea behind it most certainly isn't. Those two ideas seem contradictory but I think what makes it so appealing to women is the sharing part of it. Women love to share their needs and desires, especially material ones, publicly or so it seems. Men definitely do similar things but they just don't share it. Just today I met with a founder and we wer…
Men don't share? You check out this site Reddit.com where a few guys get together to share pictures of stuff they like.
Re: Pinterest isn't feminine: An essay on ladymags and aspirational clipping
#8The entire essay is about how pinterest is a modern scrapbook for women, and has one line flatly and bizarrely stating that it is not feminine. How not?
I think it means that Pinterest is a modern scrapbook for women who make scrapbooks, not all women. Not representative of an entire gender, but of a subset.
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#9The entire essay is about how pinterest is a modern scrapbook for women, and has one line flatly and bizarrely stating that it is not feminine. How not?
i think that it's making an implicit distinction (which might not exist) between social and biological cause. the argument is that it's rooted in a social activity, which might be (implicitly, is) constructed / learnt, rather than innate.
(and it's a better article than i expected - credit for being honest enough to detail the "defined by consumption" aspect in fairly neutral terms (or maybe it's just the male in me that finds that a little crass? don't you know that all value comes from winning the game?))
Re: Pinterest isn't feminine: An essay on ladymags and aspirational clipping
#10The entire essay is about how pinterest is a modern scrapbook for women, and has one line flatly and bizarrely stating that it is not feminine. How not?
i think that it's making an implicit distinction (which might not exist) between social and biological cause. the argument is that it's rooted in a social activity, which might be (implicitly, is) constructed / learnt, rather than innate. (and it's a better article than i expected - credit for being honest enough to detail the "defined by consumption" aspect in fairly neutral terms (or maybe it's just the male in me…
> don't you know that all value comes from winning the game?
All value comes from bowing out of the game...at which point you win.