A while back i went and bought some tights over the winter, because i was standing about often and my legs where getting really cold. I'd read that tights are actually good for circulation in the legs whilst standing for long periods and also help keep your legs warm under your trousers.
When i was buying these (along with some other misc things), the cashier smirked and gave me some funny looks. I've also had the same thing happen when buying moisturiser, my face can get dry after shaving, but only "olay beauty fluid" i find works for me, which is marketed as a women's product. Sometimes disposable shavers marketed at women, will be on sale and cheaper/better quality than whatever the male version ones are in stock at that time, so i buy these instead.
Being a guy, if i pickup these things when out for a small shop, i almost always get dodgy looks. Whether it's from the cashier, or from another customer watching me check out the "womens beauty section" as i search for something on the shelves.
The same can happen for any guy buying female clothing for a friend/partner, be that tights, or even a lingerie set for valentines day/birthday as example. Why is there this stigma in society that assumes men cannot do shopping, regardless of whether they are buying these products for themselves?
Yet if a female buys "male razor blades", or other products, even male clothes. No-one bats an eye.
What is wrong with people? There is no such thing as "male" or "female" products for most things. Male moisturiser and female moisturiser? These don't exist. We all have the same human skin. I just don't understand where this level of idiocy comes from.
What's the deal with this? Of course it doesn't happen everywhere, but it happens often enough where you are made to feel embarrassed or shamed just because you are a male buying products that are targetted at females.
Submitted February 17, 2018 at 02:42AM by Jigoku1337 http://ift.tt/2EzXDx4