This. @eicca needs to take a breath and think more deeply about what he/she is saying
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Anyone else think the iMac looks, for lack of a better word, “feminine”?
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I‘m saving this image...I can just picture myself coming home from a long day in the oil fields, taking off my muddy boots and gently placing them under the Bench, then crawling in bed with a beer while my trusty dog sparky guards the foot of my bed.
What is there to address? What does any of that have to do with anything?
fellas, is it feminine to enjoy colors? gentlemen, must our devices be as muted, cold, and austere as our hearts?
Who even thinks up dumb stuff like this? 10/10 comedy, well done.
You are claiming that certain colors are feminine. This shows that colors are neither feminine or masculine innately. It is a social construct. If you were a boy in the late 1800s or early 1900s, you’d have worn a white dress as a little kid. And if you were a little boy between 1920 and 1940, likely would have been dressed in pink. So your association of colors with gender is not absolute. It‘s a product of marketing from the 1940s forward.
Not a single thing you're saying is revelatory. Nor am I a time traveler. Forgive me for not explicitly stating that I'm posting from the year 2021.
The new iMacs look feminine to me. What else can I tell you? Attempting to explain *why* they appear feminine is a distraction at best.
That hasn’t been the issue with the posts made here so far. You’ve told other people that they also must see them as feminine.
Sorry, no. That’s your personal opinion. Don’t tell everybody on the forum that they agree with you. Most posters on this thread so far do not. It is fascinating psychologically that YOU are so convinced that these colors are feminine, and that everybody else agrees with you, even after being presented with data that such things are totally subjective and change over time… and reading many many posts of people that disagree with you.
LOL. I haven't told anyone that they must do anything.
Sorry, yes. People are free to be as disingenuous as they'd like. I'm not playing along.
You just described what I thought the previous iMac was. Maybe the level of the ‘consumerism’ approach has reached you now like it did me about 5 years ago.
I think they look feminine too. The silver color maybe leans neutral. A space gray option is miss opportunity.
Yes, and that is your opinion. But as others have said your opinion has been created through marketing and manipulation.
FWIW I am talking to my tailor tomorrow about getting some pink pants made. And I am a straight guy, but no doubt will get looks from the ‘real men’ who aren’t capable of thinking beyond denim and a tee shirt.
In regards to the colours, I have no issue with any of them, and am a little dissapointed in the yellow and orange not being more vibrant. Would have totally gone for a 70’s orange or egg yoke yellow iMac.
That unique preferences of males and females are based in basic science and fundamental biology? Not that complex.
Females are more sensitive to color. Males are more sensitive to motion. Common science, easily substantiated. Thus, the respective stereotypes for color or action preference are based in our very building blocks.
Dude, I just quoted you doing exactly that.
Would you care to explain who you believe is being disingenuous and in what way?
So did human biology change drastically in the 1940s when little boys started wearing blue instead of pink as they had been before?
When you said color preferences are due to biology. If so, how did they change so drastically in the 1940s? That is an example of color preference changing rather drastically.
I'm still waiting for Apple to start making guns and charcoal smokers. Will they ever stop being such feminine pansies? The world waits.
Remember the Apple color Powerbooks AKA The Barbie laptops well there are back as iMac except the colors are even more washed out. Now even Barbie doesn't want to be seen with one. Hey you can give to your old smelly church lady aunt it matches all her sunday best. You remember her I bet your cheeks are still apple red from her squeezing them. Run Forrest run!
You need to read my post again, more carefully. I clearly said that females generally prefer colors because they have more color receptors in their eyes, which is why we associate colorful things as being feminine. Males, biologically configured along the lines of hunter-gatherers, have more receptors for motion and shapes, which is why they generally prefer action-packed or "tough-looking" geometries.
I never once said that a preference toward blue or pink was associated with male or female.
You are clearly stating that everybody supposedly agrees with you but is lying about it. Come on. You are flatly wrong about this.
Most people don’t find the colors feminine. You do. Fine. But statements like the above, accusing everybody that disagrees with you on the thread of lying (because you think they secretly agree with you) is just plain wrong.
I'm not playing along with the charade. Most people don't find the unicorn bedroom feminine? Where do you come up with that utter nonsense? Statement like that are a complete waste of everyone's time.
Like I said, feel free to be as disingenuous as you'd like. I'm done interacting with you.
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