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What would Asian and European women think?

Started Feb 10, 2018 | Discussions thread
MOD Tom Caldwell Forum Pro • Posts: 46,360
Re: What would Asian and European women think?

bobn2 wrote:

Tom Caldwell wrote:

I might wonder why women form any part of the world would wish to have a camera tool that was any different from a man with a similar level of interest in photography.

The marketing of technology for women based on stereotypes has been full of amusing pratfalls. One could take the whole Nikon 1 system, which was said to be targeted at the 'soccer mom' as an instance. I remember one time I was working with the automobile industry, and a survey was done to help design a car targeted at women. It was a tiny thing which came in all kinds of pastel colours. The survey showed a big preference amongst the women surveyed for huge SUVs.

Yes they feel “safe” in a SUV - until they meet another wild woman in an even larger SUV.  An SUV has more room for a pram as well - so they just buy bigger “SUV prams”.

And of course the blokes are fair game as well as they get their macho rocks off thinking that they are going to take this pristine leather seated, carpeted, scratch-free SUV off the bitumen one day ..... bullbar, lights and schnorkel will in the meantime obviously help wife to find (terrorise) her way in and out of the shopping centre car park

Ban power steering in SUV types and the attraction would wither pretty quickly.

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Tinkety tonk old fruit, & down with the Nazis!
Bob

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