General Chat

I don't much like things that are specifically aimed at women and would never buy a pink power tool. The WI is out of the question for me as well and I will not buy Avon again because I saw it advertized as "The Womens' Company". It probably stems from my utter bolshiness in the seventies. Imagine the mental battles when I could have had cheaper insurance with Sheilas' Wheels.

Sometime about then women started to follow me in drinking pints rather than homeopathic doses of beer too.

Anyway, luckily I don't buy them anyway, but Doritos are working on women friendly tortilla chips! Smaller, in a packet that will fit in a handbag.

What next, I ask myself.

Centenary of Women's Suffrage, and we're offered pink tools, pink guitars (for girls), pink 'Girly girl' binoculars.

Just last year, a woman was denied a job for refusing to agree to wear high heels.

Despite 'Pay Equality', laws, women are still paid less than men, for the same job.

Women scientists and innovators from the past are still ignored/sidelined.

Who knew this about Hedy Lamarr (from WIKI)
" At the beginning of World War II, Lamarr and composer George Antheil developed a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes, which used spread spectrum and frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of jamming by the Axis powers. Although the US Navy did not adopt the technology until the 1960s, the principles of their work are arguably incorporated into Bluetooth technology, and are similar to methods used in legacy versions of CDMA and Wi-Fi"

....and they offer 'women friendly' Doritos :-P :-P :-P :-P

Men also carry handbags .....

....... why didn't Doritos just advertise smaller packets that will fit in handbags or briefcases ???????????/

They will also not make as much noise because women don't like to crunch loudly.

Ah but will they smudge the lippy? :-)

I agree Maggie. I'd never even heard of Ada Lovelace, the mathematical genius, till they did an article in the local paper. It said there was a memorial to her in a churchyard in the area where I have lived for 55 years, yet I'd never heard of it. We went to see it then, a few yards from the Mallory Park Race track. Maybe female success beyond their own has been an embarrassment to a lot of men and so kept under wraps!

Seems that way, Annx.

If you had worked in Computing you would have known about Ada Lovelace. One on the main computer languages of the eighties and nineties was called Ada in her honour.

PS I can get a big packet of crisps in my handbag.

But what are you going to do when big handbags are not fashionable anymore?

It takes me about ten years to notice that fashion has changed. I don't suppose I will be allowed out on my own by then.

How you going to get your Dorritos then?

I'll be doing well if I can remember what they are.

By the way, Grace Hopper was another programming genius who was very influential in the development of the COBOL language in the fifties. She also designed the earlier FLOW-MATIC language.

if smaller packets of Doritos are being offered, will that be reflected in a reduced price?

I would hope that, if they are being aimed at women, they would be thirty per cent cheaper to account for the pay difference.

:-D :-D :-D

But surely 30% should be off the larger packet?

make it 40% off the smaller one.

That is too much for me and my little womens' brain.

I do wish great hulking men wouldn't talk so 'technical'. *simper*

Giggle,giggle.

I haven't time to explain it now, perhaps I'll try later once you've washed the dishes :-P :-D :-D :-D

I know my place.