"It's our time to have shaving gel equality once and for all for women in the United States of America!"
Posted on 02/25/2015 12:27:57 AM PST by Citizen Zed
DAYTON-- Identical women's and men's products are being sold at different price points in Ohio.
The phenomenon is known as "pink tax," and we put some products to the test.
One-a-day "Pro Edge" vitamins, 50 count, are packed in the same sized box just different colors; the women's vitamins cost $9.49, while the men's cost $7.99.
Up&Up women's shave gel for dry skin relief costs $2.39, while the identical product for men, packaged in a blue cartridge rather than pink, costs $1.87.
The Gillette Fusion men's razor with five blades and packaged with two extra cartridges costs $10.79, while the women's Gillette Venus Embrace razor with five blades and packaged with two extra cartridges costs $10.99.
When all three items were purchased for each gender, the receipt total for the women's products was $22.87, while the men's totaled $20.65 (pre-tax).
"Its frustrating, I'm not really buying it for the packaging or the aesthetics," said U-D student Claire Cooperrider about the so-called "pink tax."
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Don’t kick the bucket
LOL
I think BJ1 was being funny about the sale stuff. I do know some people that would benefit reading your post.
And clearly women are denied purchase of the blue “male” products! < /s >
Oh yes it’s ladies’ night...
That bit of discrimination you never hear them b!tch about.
Buy the generic brand and you get the best of both worlds.
Would it be wrong to assume that the two gels are scented differently?
Would it be wrong to assume that a women’s multi-vitamin may have at least some different ingredients for her body?
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/apr/06/health/he-skeptic6
THE HEALTHY SKEPTIC
Multivitamins: Do his and hers make a difference?
April 06, 2009|Chris Woolston
...Different companies take a different approach to gender-specific nutrition. One A Day Women’s isn’t very different from the basic One A Day Essential, although it does contain extra vitamin D (800 IU instead of 400 IU), calcium (450 milligrams instead of 45 mg.) and iron (18 mg. instead of no iron at all). One A Day Men’s Health Formula contains extra vitamins E (45 IU instead of 30 IU), C (90 mg. instead of 60 mg.) and B12 (18 mcg. instead of 6 mcg.). It doesn’t have iron, but it has 600 mcg. of lycopene, an antioxidant found in tomatoes that is touted as a defense against prostate cancer...
...In practice, though, the products on the market aren’t necessarily in sync with guidelines. According to the Institute of Medicine, men and women have the same basic requirements for calcium and vitamins D, E and B12. (Women who are pregnant or nursing need extra amounts of many vitamins and minerals.) Men need a little more vitamin C than women (90 mg. each day versus 75 mg), and premenopausal women need more iron (18 mg. versus 8 mg.). For postmenopausal women, the iron quota is the same as for men....
...Like Blumberg, Drake thinks gender-specific multivitamins make sense, especially because they offer different levels of iron. “That’s the one you would worry about,” she says. Women who are menstruating need relatively large amounts of iron to prevent anemia, but too much can encourage heart disease in men and postmenopausal women.
No multivitamin can exactly match a person’s nutritional needs, Drake says. But one with the right amount of iron will probably be close enough.
Ya beat me to it!
If, as the writer insists, they are exactly the same formula, then it is the choice of the consumer to buy the cheaper product.
Buy the generic, and it’s even cheaper! LOL!
It's why some people vote Democrat. They believe this is a spending 'cut'.
A bottle of cheap hair conditioner for eighty-seven cents works even better for shaving.
IMO women are more likely to buy into advertising hype that makes big claims. They’re willing to pay for it. Men are more likely to want whatever is simple and basic and does the job.
I can buy Wrangler jeans (or 20X) all day for between $25-$35, women’s jeans are low end around $60. A popular pair is around $80 or better for some bedazzle on the pocket. Utter BS.
Oh, I'll readily admit to vanity. And why not?
You condemn us for wanting to look good, but if we let ourselves go and blow up into whales, you sure wouldn't like that.
As a man, you better be grateful for female vanity.
I powder my nose but I don't use the razor daily so the two cancel each other out.
There you go. One woman who "does that".
Hey, that's my line (and I'm sticking to it!) :D
"It's our time to have shaving gel equality once and for all for women in the United States of America!"
LOL! We have had exactly that conversation. She saves a lot of money with 20% and 30% there, I should be grateful.
LOL - I love that graphic!
Just about everything I buy is on sale, it is the way to buy most everything.
There is a difference between buying your goods on sale, and being seduced by sales, into buying something that you aren’t actually going to use.
No, I didn't. I criticized you for being so vain you let yourselves be conned into paying ridiculous prices for junk that doesn't do anything to make you more attractive.
but if we let ourselves go and blow up into whales, you sure wouldn't like that.
No, we wouldn't, any more than you would like it if we let ourselves become slobs. But you're offering a false dichotomy anyway. The choices aren't limited to being utterly vain or being a whale. There is middle ground.
As a man, you better be grateful for female vanity.
Hardly. That's at the root of the "Do these pants make my butt look fat?" question, which every man dreads and no man can answer right. Self-pride is one thing; vanity is altogether another.
Is there a situation in which "stupid" is not a condemnation? Don't believe so.
" I criticized you for being so vain you let yourselves be conned into paying ridiculous prices for junk that doesn't do anything to make you more attractive."
Some do, some don't. There are some women---myself included---who understand that expensive often doesn't mean more effective. See my post at #50.
I don't believe in wasting money on, say, a $40 jar of moisturizer when a $3 jar of Ponds or some coconut oil works just as well or better.
"No, we wouldn't, any more than you would like it if we let ourselves become slobs."
Agree.
" But you're offering a false dichotomy anyway. The choices aren't limited to being utterly vain or being a whale. There is middle ground."
Not what I implied. You, though, did imply that vanity goes hand in hand with stupidity and with squandering money.
"Hardly."
Okay, well, you say that, but a woman who doesn't give a rip how she looks is a woman who looks like hell, most often. I haven't met the man who appreciates that.
" That's at the root of the "Do these pants make my butt look fat?" question, which every man dreads and no man can answer right. Self-pride is one thing; vanity is altogether another."
That's an easy question. Just say no, LOL.
Vanity tends to be a female trait, just as men have their own qualities. It's a fallen old world.
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