I love pink and glitter as much as the next person, but I don’t need everything that I own, including razors, power tools and underwear, to beexuding femininity. I just want them to work well and not cost twice as much as the versions designed for men!
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Abortion laws.
Every single gyno procedure and lack of pain meds given for it.
Most women’s shoes are shaped to be long, thin and pointy.My feet are not long, thin and pointy, they are foot-shaped, and shoe shopping is a*s.
Someone PLEASE put more belt loops on my work pants!Oh, and NORMAL pockets, please and thankyou.
Most pharmaceuticals, unfortunately.
Religious rules. And clothes without pockets.
Sports bras and their removable pads.
Button down shirts that don’t account for breasts and if you CAN button it all the way up you have these huge gaps and stretching between the buttons.
Women’s Genital Wash. Summers Eve, for example, is a modern brand. The vagina is self-cleaning. The fragrances and chemicals in these washes can cause infections. Do not wash inside your vagina! Water only.
Women’s power tools. They are just a pink version of the men’s tools, or they are just a less powerful version.No redesign of the weight, shape, or grip size to make them easier to hold for our body shapes, just a pink tax.
Car seat belts. Mine slips up all the time, and I have it on the lowest setting. I am 5'4" tall. So uncomfortable.
All obgyn vaginal procedures. BARBARIC.
Ok, this is niche, but I hate it whenever I go to sit at a bar and there are no hooks under the bar. Double points if the stools don’t have a back where I can loop my purse/coat over the seat back, and I am stuck piling my purse and/or coat in my lap. Same for public restrooms - pleaseee put a hook on the door so I’m not precariously balancing my purse on my lap or worse on the floor.
Razors. I just buy the regular man-version if I wanna use a razor.
Whoever designed auto-flushing toilets. The damn thing is throwing sewage water on the back of my thighs before I can get my pants up. Wtaf?!?!.
Wasn’t there some guys on shark tank or something like it that made gloves for women to use to change their menstrual products? They were single use and pink or something?.
When you get a needle biopsy, you have to lie on a cold formica table with a sharp edged hole w yr breast dangling through it. The first time I had to do this, we (me, women docs and nurses) all commented on the terrible design of the thing.When I has another needle biopsy a few years later, the table had been redesigned. It was now pink. ❤️.
The chainsaw. I wish I never knew this fact.
Every public restroom I’ve been to that doesn’t have a little trash receptacle in the stall. Having to walk your soiled sanitary products to the main trash in the handwashing area is adding insult to injury when periods suck enough. .
There is a patent for labia glue that dissolves when you pee on it do use while on your period to hold the blood in. A male chiropractor invented and tried to sell it. So that.
Scented pads, especially mint “flavoured” ones.
PPE. Unisex fit my a*s
Most lingerie.
Tampons, considering they didn’t think to test them with actual blood until last year.
Sports shortsSearch for it on google and add men or women and see the difference.
Anything that is just a pink or purple variation of the men’s version.
Hiking backpacks with a breast strap.
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Mammograms. Routinely squeezing boobs between two plates of plexiglass. Find a better way. Imagine if men had to put their balls between two plate and have their nuts painfully squashed every year.
Mammograms.
High heels, which after an hour resemble instruments of torture.
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Clothes - hardly any pockets, if they do, it’s rare they they a a decent size that actually holds the items in.Handbags - many are too small and useless for any woman carrying more than 1 card and a little bit of cash.Seatbelts - they don’t fit right because they were designed for breast-less people apparently.
Let’s be real here: most things.
99% of women’s clothing?(no pockets, waist short enough for an oompa loompah that just gets wider never longer, underwear that scrunch up your as regardless of its modest size, pants that create muffin tops, pants that you can’t bend your legs in because calf muscles apparently aren’t fashionable, coochie splitting “jumpers” where the waist is never long enough, cold shirts with sleeves that track in everything, fragile s***y lacy shirts to be seen in / freeze in, jackets with no pockets, jeans and pants with no pockets, shoes you can’t run in).
Society.
I’m pretty sure cars? Last I heard, most or all crash tests are used with a male model, but that might’ve changed semi-recently.
The whole healthcare system as a concept.
Tampax (and possibly other brands) tampons. It swells in length instead of getting wider when expanding. It’s pushing you in spots nobody wants to ever feel pressure imo, it’s just not correct anatomically speaking.Apparently, many got genuinely sick from using them due to this (I haven’t seen any official reports tbf, just reading it up on the internet and some anecdotal evidence) and it’s causing pain for others, including me. It hurt like hell, and definitely was not comfortable at all at any point. You just cannot not feel it.When I lived in the UK, I either had to spend a smaller fortune on buying OB tampons from various sites on the internet or ask someone to bring me some when they were visiting a country that had them, as they’re not being sold in the UK. I tried several other brands, including Lidl and drugstores' own brands, and while OB was the best in my opinion, most were not as uncomfortable as Tampax was besides a few. I do apologise for not naming more, but Tampax is the most common as far as I’ve seen and I’ve tried so many brands I just can’t remember their names.Edit:typo.
Tampons in a cardboard applicator.
Toilet cubicles - never enough room for sanitary bins.
I bought a last-minute dress for my father-in-law’s funeral last week where the top bit was a wraparound with poppers to essentially keep your breasts in. I had to sit there in church praying they wouldn’t pop open at possibly the worst occasion imaginable (although my partner said his dad would have actually found that hilarious).Yeah, men please stop designing women’s clothes, thanks.
Leggings with a seam in the crotch.
Any female outfit in mmorpg.
Not quite what you were looking for but skincare and cosmetics. It was still a largely male dominated industry up until the 90s. In many countries the key decision makers in “big beauty retail” is still men. Men still hold most of the purse strings in the industry people just don’t know it or are too lazy to recognise it.
The car park ticket machine thingys that you have to get juuuust close enough that you can still reach the machine without your wing mirrors hitting it. Men are simply taller and thus have longer arms whereas us short girlies must suffer. :(.
“Chick cars” that still don’t have anywhere to put your handbag if you have a passenger.
Birth control.
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