Navigating a world where products are often designed with men in mind can be a frustrating experience for women. From clothing that seems oblivious to female anatomy to gadgets that miss the mark in understanding women’s needs, it’s a daily struggle.
Delve into the humorous yet exasperating anecdotes of women as they reveal their encounters with items clearly crafted by men in a viral AskReddit thread.
#1
Someone PLEASE put more belt loops on my work pants!
Oh, and NORMAL pockets, please and thankyou.
#2
Wasn’t there some guys on shark tank or something like it that made gloves for women to use to change their menstrual products? They were single use and pink or something?.
#3
Every single gyno procedure and lack of pain meds given for it.
#5
Razors. I just buy the regular man-version if I wanna use a razor.
#6
Maternity leave.
I’m in the US where you’re lucky to have it and even if you do there are often ridiculous stipulations like, leave starting only when you go into labor.
There’s no way a system where the expectation is that 100% of women will be able to work until a baby literally begins to fall out of them was designed by a woman.
#7
Women’s power tools. They are just a pink version of the men’s tools, or they are just a less powerful version.
No redesign of the weight, shape, or grip size to make them easier to hold for our body shapes, just a pink tax.
#8
Religious rules. And clothes without pockets.
#9
Button-down shirts that don’t account for breasts, and if you CAN button it all the way up, you have these huge gaps and stretching between the buttons.
#10
Car seat belts. Mine slips up all the time, and I have it on the lowest setting. I am 5’4″ tall. So uncomfortable.
#11
Birth control – because most women even nowadays still don’t know it is perfectly safe not to get a period when you are on it. The 7 day pill gap was invented by men and priests back in the day so the pill would look like it keeps the normal cycle. IT does not and you don’t need a period when you are on the pill.
#12
All obgyn vaginal procedures. BARBARIC.
#13
Most pharmaceuticals, unfortunately.
#14
Every public restroom I’ve been to that doesn’t have a little trash receptacle in the stall. Having to walk your soiled sanitary products to the main trash in the handwashing area is adding insult to injury when periods suck enough. .
#15
There is a patent for labia glue that dissolves when you pee on it do use while on your period to hold the blood in. A male chiropractor invented and tried to sell it. So that.
#17
When you get a needle biopsy, you have to lie on a cold formica table with a sharp edged hole w yr breast dangling through it. The first time I had to do this, we (me, women docs and nurses) all commented on the terrible design of the thing.
When I has another needle biopsy a few years later, the table had been redesigned. It was now pink.
#18
Women’s Genital Wash. Summers Eve, for example, is a modern brand. The vagina is self-cleaning. The fragrances and chemicals in these washes can cause infections. Do not wash inside your vagina! Water only.
#20
Tampons, considering they didn’t think to test them with actual blood until last year.
#21
Anything that is just a pink or purple variation of the men’s version.
#22
Whoever designed auto-flushing toilets. The damn thing is throwing sewage water on the back of my thighs before I can get my pants up. Wtaf?!?!.
#23
Sports shorts
Search for it on google and add men or women and see the difference.
#24
Sports bras and their removable pads.
#25
Ok, this is niche, but I hate it whenever I go to sit at a bar and there are no hooks under the bar. Double points if the stools don’t have a back where I can loop my purse/coat over the seat back, and I am stuck piling my purse and/or coat in my lap. Same for public restrooms – pleaseee put a hook on the door so I’m not precariously balancing my purse on my lap or worse on the floor.
#26
High heels, which after an hour resemble instruments of torture.
#27
I had a baby and we used bottles to administer formula. The numbers and oz indicator lines were in white.
WHITE.
#29
The IUD was invented by Richard Richter in 1909 and the design was updated by Ernst Gräfenberg.
#30
Hiking backpacks with a breast strap.
#31
The chainsaw. I wish I never knew this fact.
#32
Clothes – hardly any pockets, if they do, it’s rare they they a a decent size that actually holds the items in.
Handbags – many are too small and useless for any woman carrying more than 1 card and a little bit of cash.
Seatbelts – they don’t fit right because they were designed for breast-less people apparently.
#33
Toilet cubicles – never enough room for sanitary bins.
#34
Leggings with a seam in the crotch.
#35
Most women’s shoes are shaped to be long, thin and pointy.
My feet are not long, thin and pointy, **they are** **foot-shaped**, and shoe shopping is a*s.
Masha
