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8 years 9 months ago #1 by Mister D
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    • It's an art group called Cybertwee.

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/18/cybertwee-artists-male-dominated-tech-pink-cute-girly

    http://cybertwee.net/press/
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    8 years 9 months ago #2 by peter
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    • And I'd like to nominate Sydney as an honorary member.

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    8 years 9 months ago #3 by Bek D Corbin
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    • Well, he IS just SO _Fluffy_!
    8 years 9 months ago #4 by peter
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    • Mister D wrote: It's an art group called Cybertwee.

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/18/cybertwee-artists-male-dominated-tech-pink-cute-girly

    http://cybertwee.net/press/


    I have to confess that I have a bit of a peeve about companies who market things like safety boots and power tools to women by coloring them pink.

    Any woman who is shopping for power tools she intends to use is not going to be the sort to be impressed by that color.
    8 years 9 months ago - 8 years 9 months ago #5 by Malady
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    • peter wrote:

    Mister D wrote: It's an art group called Cybertwee.

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/18/cybertwee-artists-male-dominated-tech-pink-cute-girly

    http://cybertwee.net/press/


    I have to confess that I have a bit of a peeve about companies who market things like safety boots and power tools to women by coloring them pink.

    Any woman who is shopping for power tools she intends to use is not going to be the sort to be impressed by that color.


    On another note... I'm wondering if cybertwee actually might compromise function, or something, if 'masculinity' is possibly actually due to efficiency of form, or something. Like, Metal is naturally Grey/Silver, so painting it does stuff, and makes it more expensive??

    But hey, that's like, likely to be totally wrong.
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    8 years 9 months ago #6 by rubberjohn
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    • On the other hand there's nothing wrong with women asking for traditionally male items to be made in pink. I even saw an episode of a TV programme where a woman bought a custom made .45 automatic and asked the gunsmith to make bright pink! The guy nearly had a heart attack but... by the end of the programme even he had to admit that the gun created a lot of interest from the other ladies taking his 'Gun Safety Training Course'.

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    8 years 9 months ago #7 by Yolandria
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    • You mean something like this?


    4.bp.blogspot.com/-pmCqHSToVTk/UP9pqhSal...600/HelloKittyAR.gif

    :lol: :lol:
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    8 years 9 months ago - 8 years 9 months ago #8 by ~Archangel~
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    • Yolandria wrote: You mean something like this?


    4.bp.blogspot.com/-pmCqHSToVTk/UP9pqhSal...600/HelloKittyAR.gif

    :lol: :lol:


    It makes feel less safe because now I'm imagining Jade with an assault rifle going 'Say hello to my little friend!'

    :woohoo:
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    Some are called 'mad' and shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day.
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    8 years 9 months ago #9 by Phoenix Spiritus
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    • ~Archangel~ wrote: It makes feel less safe because now I'm imagining Jade with an assault rifle going 'Say hello to my little friend!'

    :woohoo:


    Jade would never say that!

    No. Just No.
    8 years 9 months ago - 8 years 9 months ago #10 by lighttech
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    • my brother bought one, just like that for his daughter

    but her's has hello kitty skulls and cross bones on it....with little bows on the heads

    but what is scary? he is FBI ---now that is scary!


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    8 years 9 months ago #11 by Yolandria
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    • You know she would Pheonix...You know it in your heart... *Giggles*
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    8 years 9 months ago - 8 years 9 months ago #12 by Valentine
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    8 years 9 months ago #13 by Sir Lee
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    • You know, this was in the old forums, but it bears relinking...

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    8 years 9 months ago #14 by Dawnfyre
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    • you forgot the warning:

    This site cannot be unviewed, follow link at peril to your sanity.
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    8 years 9 months ago #15 by lighttech
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    • this for the win!

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    8 years 9 months ago #16 by ~Archangel~
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    • lighttech wrote: this for the win!

    robot6.comicbookresources.com/wp-content...015/05/iron-man4.jpg


    ARGH!!! I need brain bleach now!!! :lol:

    Wait. Hmm, well if Jade did built a suit of armor, she could power it with her other selves to carry various things that go bang, boost her strength...

    ARGH!! Brain bleach!! It's in my head now and it won't come out! :lol:
    Many people hear voices when no-one is there.
    Some are called 'mad' and shut up in rooms where they stare at the walls all day.
    Others are called 'writers' and they do pretty much the same thing.
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    8 years 9 months ago #17 by lighttech
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    • ~Archangel~ wrote:

    lighttech wrote: this for the win!

    robot6.comicbookresources.com/wp-content...015/05/iron-man4.jpg


    ARGH!!! I need brain bleach now!!! :lol:

    Wait. Hmm, well if Jade did built a suit of armor, she could power it with her other selves to carry various things that go bang, boost her strength...

    ARGH!! Brain bleach!! It's in my head now and it won't come out! :lol:


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    8 years 9 months ago #18 by Yolandria
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    • This is what happens when Jade goes to Karedonia.

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    8 years 9 months ago #19 by Phoenix Spiritus
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    • Yolandria wrote: This is what happens when Jade goes to Karedonia.

    gadgetsin.com/uploads/2010/10/new_hello_..._joseph_senior_2.jpg


    Now the one on the left … I can just imagine Jade doing that and trying to show it off to Jobe :twisted:
    Maybe with a side serving of SQUEEE! from some of the other Drow :evil:
    8 years 9 months ago #20 by Valentine
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    • I'm still wondering why they haven't drafted Belphy.
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    8 years 9 months ago #21 by Sir Lee
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    • Belphy isn't so much into "cute"; she's rather more into the "sexy."

    And before there even was a Wondercute, Superchick attempted to bring her to the Unicorn Side and Belphy was sort of... appalled.
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    8 years 7 months ago #22 by E M Pisek
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    • peter wrote:

    Mister D wrote: It's an art group called Cybertwee.

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/18/cybertwee-artists-male-dominated-tech-pink-cute-girly

    http://cybertwee.net/press/


    I have to confess that I have a bit of a peeve about companies who market things like safety boots and power tools to women by coloring them pink.

    Any woman who is shopping for power tools she intends to use is not going to be the sort to be impressed by that color.


    I would say that you might be correct in some way but....

    My step-daughter had chosen pink over the other colors available. She's not into everything pink but she does like it better over some others. So there is a market for those who would buy it.
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    8 years 7 months ago #23 by Bek D Corbin
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    • Besides, if her stuff is colored pink, there's no way that the macho men she works with can steal her gear and get away with it
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    • Bek D Corbin wrote: Besides, if her stuff is colored pink, there's no way that the macho men she works with can steal her gear and get away with it


    Now that is an argument I can buy one hundred percent. Job site theft is a real pain in the neck and I think you've hit the nail here.
    8 years 7 months ago #25 by Mister D
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    • peter wrote:

    Bek D Corbin wrote: Besides, if her stuff is colored pink, there's no way that the macho men she works with can steal her gear and get away with it


    Now that is an argument I can buy one hundred percent. Job site theft is a real pain in the neck and I think you've hit the nail here.


    This! 100% this!

    There was one member of a metal-working forum where i lurk, that bought some similar tools, as they were very distinctive, and sure enough, while a few people that he worked with took the piss, that subsided after a few days, but his tools were never stolen.
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    8 years 7 months ago - 8 years 7 months ago #26 by Arcanist Lupus
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    • I heard of a guy at my college who, upon getting their bike stolen, replaced it with the pinkest bike they could find.
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    8 years 7 months ago - 8 years 7 months ago #27 by Naldru
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    • Phoenix Spiritus wrote:

    Yolandria wrote: This is what happens when Jade goes to Karedonia.

    gadgetsin.com/uploads/2010/10/new_hello_..._joseph_senior_2.jpg


    Now the one on the left … I can just imagine Jade doing that and trying to show it off to Jobe :twisted:
    Maybe with a side serving of SQUEEE! from some of the other Drow :evil:


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