Doesn't the "pink tax" - where products marketed towards women cost more - just indicate that women are more willing to pay extra money to affirm their identity as female, and it's their own damn fault for not buying the cheaper, non-pink product?
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Was really weirded out by your bestiality take last week, but this is a good one
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lol it wasn't even a take, i was just asking about the evolution of the cultural taboo around bestiality, I wasn't even claiming anything
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As a man, I don't pay to visit my OBGYN but I do have to meet him in an alley.
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Yes in the same way that companies don't actually care about hiring women engineers, they'd pay more for women engineers if they did
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It's a combination of things, depending how broad the definition is.
Pink colored versions of items can be low sellers, so smaller batches, meaning higher costs by the manufacturer.
Hygeine products tend to be more that males go for basics rather that specializations.
So, yes.
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It being their own fault doesn’t follow directly from their willingness. In at least some cases they’re incentivized to pay more by threat of social punishment. That makes it more of a patriarchal extortion racket than a benign costly preference.
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This was definitely the angle I heard about male-marketed products with a markup.