Males using female products

It's always been a clever marketing ploy. Women's razors cost significantly more than men's, just for being pink.

This is one change I can get on board with.

You're being ridiculous. This isn't a feminist issue.

It might be a feminist issue that products are marketed differently in a stereotyped way. Using the ‘other’ products is just fine.

Couldn't care less. Not sure why there are male and female skin products. We both have skin! They can also advertise the scent so you can choose. I 'borrow' DH's deodorant all the time and honestly there is no difference

Gendering of skincare & cosmetic products is bollocks & we would be well rid of it.

I'm quite happy if "products" are a male thing, they are welcome to them. I don't use many apart from shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, deodorant and face/body moisturiser. My main concern when buying any of those is lack of scent wherever possible, and for face/body moisturiser it has to do its job v well as I have very dry and sensitive skin. I buy what works regardless of the packaging.

What foolishness is this? This is why feminism can get a bad rep. You just seem like you're trying to find something to get annoyed about.

The daft thing was that products were considered to be "feminine", such that companies made (largely identical) products in grey packaging and marketed them as "manly".
They're just products. I'd rather men felt free to use whichever products interested them than only feel able to pick up those in grey / black / khaki packaging.
I agree with this.
I buy men's razors and shaving foam because apparently I need expensive pink versions for my girly legs. The fact that products need gendering when their utility has nothing to do with the sex of the user is nothing more than promoting stereotypes and hoping people are silly enough to buy pink products for her and khaki products for him.

Same shit different day can be seen on Let Toys Be Toys. If it isn't operated with your genitals then we don't need a pink and blue version of the same bloody toy.

I've just looked on their Instagram and there's one example since the beginning of the year that I can find and that is of a make up artist using it with his mother and the product is their Mother's Day box, I couldn't get worked up about it. These recent posts you mention are they more on their stories?

I can't be bothered by this honestly. People should buy whatever products they want.

I am another one who tends to buy men's deodorant, because I like the scents available better.

Most products have no functional difference between men's and women's versions, so if men want to use the ones marketed fo women that is their business.

There are loads of near identical products marketed differently to men and women. This doesn't bother me, it's good if people can look beyond the marketing and choose products that meet their needs.

I really couldn't care less about men using skin products 'aimed' at women.

I use my husbands brylcreem wax stuff sometimes to smooth the ends of my hair. Should I stop using it because it is aimed at men?

Oh get a grip honestly

I thought this would be a thread about the select creepy group of men who like to simulate periods using tampons and fake blood.

But no, if its just ignoring the marketing gender crap then that is brilliant. We need more of that. I honestly think that marketeers are partly to blame for a crisis in gender identities, having spent decades enforcing identical products but one marked explicitly "for men", and the other bright pink for the girls...

I'm not fussed as I don't see why all products have to be gendered. Just buy what suits you is my philosophy.

You've got a point, I was in the chippy the other day and bought a regular bag of chips and I saw that a man behind me bought exactly the SAME thing!

It seems to me that there is nothing sacred these days...🤷‍♀️

Thanks, I will look into it.

I use DH's shaving foam on my legs, he uses my hand cream. Why does it matter? It's better than having 2 lots of stuff cluttering up the bathroom.

Oh my god you are being ridiculous. Fucking hell, find a better hill to die on.

My husband wanted to buy some of the men's Clinique moisturiser in the airport and they had none. The Clinique rep told us the women's stuff was exactly the same just in different packaging (and cheaper) so it's clearly all in the marketing.

I don't see the issue to be honest