I’m Still Going to Blame the Crowds and Lines
“Men don’t hate fashion, they just hate shopping the way it’s designed for women,” said Ben Lerer, founder of Thrillist, which gives men tips for activities or products and then sells them. “The young generation of guys love to shop, they love to talk about the brands they like and they really care about how they look.”
Here’s a mansplanation of man-shopping, if you’re interested. But, actually, the reason why I don’t like to go shopping is: crowds, lines for dressing rooms and cash registers, and spending money I probably shouldn’t be spending—which are probably the same reasons why there are women who don’t like to shop either, but I’ll stop here before I start mansplaining the mansplanation.
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Barf. I feel like that quote might as well read “Men don’t hate fashion, they just hate enjoying a stereotypically feminine activity.”
Shopping has always been the bane of my existence.
The crowds are probably worse then the line for me personally (I hate when people take up the whole area in front of you and walk reeeeaaalllyy slowly) but also why are shopping centres designed to make you hate it there?
I saw on a doco that shopping centres are designed to be really noisy so that the shopper is driven into the shops, which are carpeted and quieter than in the melee outside the shop, forcing them to spend money. This makes so much sense to me.
@TARDIStime haha, way to answer my own question…
I like to shop online for clothes whenever possible now.
Mike, you are the best.