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Bit of a rant about buying glasses and the liberal conscious misunderstanding of gender
I have been confronted with the most absurd thing today: Gendered glasses. You know, I already thought the kinder surprise egg in a “girl” and “boy” edition was strange, bc some cashiers wouldn’t sell boys the pink ones or girls the blue ones, but now I was told while looking for new glasses that I should look at the “female collection”. I’m afab, I present as a woman, but I still felt fucking insulted when the salesperson told me so. I wish people would put effort in being accommodating and more open to people’s genders, but instead, they just coat things in archaic binary gender colors and just direct you towards “what you look like”. I don’t know, maybe I’m just overreacting, but it felt demeaning. When I was younger, there weren’t even gendered sections in the stores for glasses.
its so silly, they are shaped bits of plastic and little screws. The fascination with gendering objects in society always confuses me
Exactly! And this preoccupation with assigning colors to genders is something I’ve disliked ever since I was a kid, urgh. The most frustrating thing really is that glasses are a medical aid, and apart from being ridiculously expensive, now I also have to put up with this.
Thank you for your reply, I’m glad I’m not the only one who feels this way
the men’s glasses are usually cheaper and more sturdy (at least where i go) so its another example of pink tax as well
More sturdy is definitely true here too, but unfortunately they’re not all cheaper. Still need to find the right one. Hope I can find a better store in the near future, don’t think I’ll return to this one.
aw man
i think it’s because at the place in the mall i go to, 90% of the women’s glasses are like, designer brands, and then 10% is the “budget” section, whereas for the men’s section the budget section is 50% of it, so i think i have confirmation bias here