Males using female products

[londongirl12]

I follow Clinique on Instagram as I use their products. They have posted quite a lot recently of men using the "female" products, not the ones advertised to men. It really annoys me for a few reasons:
Can we not have our own products any more?
Are the men products actually then the same as the women's ones anyway, so it's al just a clever marketing ploy and it's all the same stuff.

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...🤷‍♀️

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

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...

Oh get a grip honestly

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?

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 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.

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

@PoTheDog

Meh, isn't it just the same as women using men's products? Eg, I used to use men's deodorant all the time because a magazine once told me it was more effective than womens

Unless you're talking about using sanitary wear then I wouldn't even blink.

Even sanitary wear can be innocent. I know of a man who buys sanitary towels. He's at that age where he leaks a bit and they are much cheaper than Tena for men.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

@SnuggyBuggy

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.

This.

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

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

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.

I buy the teen DS female non-scented deodorant because he has a very sensitive sense of smell and cannot stand mens deodorant. Is that a problem?

I'd be quite happy for toiletries and make up/hair products to be gender neutral.

Really? Do people seriously have nothing better to moan about than men using "women's" products and vice versa???

I use "men's" shaving gel and a "men's" Gillette razor as i have ridiculously coarse hair on my legs and underarms and I get a closer shave with them. Dp will often use my deodorant if he can't find his or has forgotten to tell me he has run out.

As with pp I often pinch his bulldog shaving creme or his body shop one as I find I get less razor rash and less ingrown hairs from it.

@LadyBuffOfBuffdonia

Are men's razors actually any good? I've never got one unless you count the 19p cheap orange ones.

I'm in the market for a reusable, eco friendly one I can use without shaving foam.

My dh, ds and dd all have a Shavekit handle and just the same blades. I get gruum stuff that everyone dives into (leaving me my old lady creams)

Oh yes & razors! I shave my legs sometimes, when I can be bothered.

The razor has never, ever, needed to be pink or called after a goddess in order for it to lawnmower my hairy legs.

It's all just absolute marketing bollocks. If you want a product to make your eyelids look sparkly, your hair shiny &/or green & mauve, or your legs less hairy - the product is unlikely to be calculating your chromosomes & going rogue on you if they don't match up with the ones the marketing dept decided to sell to.

This isn't the hill to die or indeed dye on!

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I don't believe in gender and that includes gendered products such as toys or children's cloths or beauty products. They should be boy's toys/girl's toys/men's moisterisers (that is not to say I disagree with having a range of scents to choose from). Where sex matters then it is necessary to have those things eg period products, cut of cloths to fit the male or female shape, safety equipment, medication doses. Strangely where sex matters it seem almost less likely for there to be products for women then when gender is being forced on us.