Don't be scared, her hammer's pink.

[may_dryad]

This is why I shouldn't read the Wall Street Journal.

The home-improvement industry has always been a no-woman's land known for its drab aisles lined with nail bins and mysterious steel objects whose purpose was understood only by grunting guys in flannel shirts. Now it is going designer pink. Companies such as Tomboy Tools, Barbara K Enterprises

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[joreth]

grumble grumble grumble

And that's all I have to say about that, lest I go off on my own tirade.

BTW, have you read "Same Difference"?

[may_dryad]

BTW, have you read "Same Difference"?

No. Isn't it trying to debunk the whole "men and women are just different" thing? Which is an admirable thing to debunk. People are different from one another, yes, but when we see more than one person with a vagina behaving in a certain way, we tend to attribute that behavior to their gender. When really, the variety among women, or among men, is just as great as the differences between women and men.

[joreth]

Yes, the basic premise is that women are more different from each other and men are more different from each other than the entire gender of women is different from the entire gender of men. It sites many studies to show that, aside from some basic physical differences, women and men have the ability to take on each other's "traits" in thinking and behaviour depending upon the situation, so that much of what we think of as gender-based is really cultural, not biological. It also spends some time debunking the whole hunter/gatherer myth from the '50s. Honestly, I have no idea how we ever fell for that one