My Dear Hard Drive

This morning, as a subscriber of WebProNews, I got kind of baffled about an apology. Normally you wouldn’t find apologies offensive in any way, but this time, it was the very thing that made me grind my teeth. At the risk of sounding like a hard boiled feminist I’ll have to stick my spoon into this soup.

The article is about marketing and planning services so that men and women both get what they want. Doesn’t sound much like an offensive thing to blog about, yet Jason Lee Miller starts it with an apology of a sort:

The following is based on research, not sexism or prejudice of any kind. Conclusions are by nature overly general, and there are many exceptions to the following “rules” of masculine and feminine behavior.

What followed was information about how women like to be informed before they buy stuff, save money, select a product that will last the longest possible time, and so forth. Favourite colours of men and women (regarding web design, and orange is the least favourite of everyone. Check out my blog, baby.) Anyway, what I found amusing was that none of the qualities that were feminine were offensive to women. In fact, us girls sounded like the kind of shoppers you would really WANT to run your money affairs. So why did Jason feel the need to apologize for this information? Is it so, that because we are women, we are expected to be offended just because someone points out we don’t possess a masculine quality, no matter how idiotic or undeveloped it is?

When I was a fair bit younger, a male friend of ours told their friends that “Sebbie has so much ball, that she even pees standing up!” Of course that was a massive compliment, but if I had said that of one of my male friends: “Jason has so much vagina, he even pees sitting down!” nobody would be too taken by that “compliment” unless he was a transgender woman. Why is it, that being man-like is so much better than being just a girl?