Crash testing in vehicles are done based on the male physiology. Women are more likely to die in a crash because of this.
One 2019 study published in the journal Traffic Injury Prevention found that women are 73% more likely to be seriously injured in a crash compared to men.
https://abc7chicago.com/crash-test-dummies-car-women-in-crashes-safety-of/14553933/
I don’t know how relevant this is. In the UK 75% of all road accident fatalities are male. They also make up the majority of casualties.
Does the Traffic Injury prevention report account for deaths. It could be the case woman are being injured where men are more likely to have died. It could also be the smaller sample size compared to men influencing the results. The article only talks about individual people experience not the actual statics.
I can’t imagine it being that different from the UK results. Where men are dieing at three times the rate of women. If you want to save more life’s, male test dummies are more useful. The people pushing this issue seems to be a startup trying to sell million dollar dummies.
Having read the article, I’m 98% sure this is parody.
April fools?
Am I missing a part of the joke or are there a lot of people here who don’t understand Tattletale is a satire site?
This post is the first I’ve heard of 'em.
It’s the first time I have as well, but check the other articles on the site. Also, this lemmy channel’s description.
Your go-to source for hilarious satire news on the chaotic world of kids and parenting.
I believe you; I was expressing a reason people may not have realized. Sorry, I was super high when I was replying, and probably didn’t make myself clear.
I don’t get this bs response. Too often have I seen my female friends buy terrible clothing. Yes women’s clothing fucking sucks, but some women manage to find even worse articles than the regular flimsy thin fabric that still manages to feel tight even when it is too big for you. Extra points for poor insulation and confusing parts. They enable that impractical pocketless shit.
I found clothes that better accomodate my wide ass in the men’s section, then I ever have in the woman’s section. I found the best swimming top, in the sports bra section as the swimming gear was just the same flimsy design. Who in their right minds would buy a top marketed for surfing, when the thing is only held together by a weak elastic rope made from the same fabric? You fall off once and your top disappears from existance.
I found that clothing in the woman’s section is uncomfortable, even when it’s too big for me. At least in the men’s, I find clothes that are comfortable, even if it looks bad on me. I’m done with looking good.
At least in the case of the women I’ve lived with: they just buy cheap shit. Mostly shein.
The market for “cheap, dogshit clothing that disintegrates in a few months and doesn’t have basic amenities like pockets” is much larger with women, that’s why the entire fast fashion industry exists.
For real. Cheap shit is cheap shit. And I agree women enable that shit. Though I found that clothes in the same price range, generally have better quality in the men’s. Thicker fabric, insulation, less see through, pockets, etc.
Feeling comfy will make you look good
Lies! Defeption! I look like a lesbian with a hobo vibe.
Nah you look like a comfy lesbian with a hobo vibe 👍
Kinda unrelated, but I found underwear at Walmart that has a holder for your cock n balls.
Absolute game changer.
Not unrelated, that’s a pocket of sorts
What are briefs but a sling for your thing and a cover for your ass cheeks? I went back to them a few years ago after wearing boxers most of my life and they’re a total game changer. They keep everything snugly cradled and they don’t get bunched up around the edges like boxers when you’re a chubby dude like me.
No, I mean is has a pocket specifically for your junk. Like, it keeps your balls from sticking to your legs
My problem with those is they push your junk up and out a bit. Sure, it makes your bulge huge but the edge of the hole into the pocket is always there on the underside of your sack. Like a steering wheel in my pants, it drives me nuts.
The steering wheel drives your nuts?
A pirate walks into a bar with a steering wheel sticking out the front of his pants. The bartender looks at him and asks, “Hey, you know you have a steering wheel sticking out of the front of your pants?”
Pirate looks at him and says, “Argh it’s driving me nuts”
JFC just buy men’s pants and get over it already.
Women, you can wear men’s underwear, it’s legal!
Use the front pouch as a bun warmer. You’re welcome.
Most people’s buns are in back
i never thought about it that way…
Wait, when you say bun warmer, how do you mean that?
Put a piece of bread down there for safe keeping and your body heat will keep it warm!
Oh my
My wife puts her phone in the dick hole (no idea what it’s called) when she has her hands full
It’s called the fly.
My wife named hers ‘Orange Julius’
It’s called the vagina.
This is the solution to every example of the “pink tax” but they don’t want to hear it.
I mean, telling someone to ignore the things that are actually built for their body and to buy things that likely won’t perfectly fit their body is hardly a solution. At best it’s a bandaid. Just give women pockets dammit!
They sell women’s clothing with pockets, full sized, functional pockets you can literally go google it and find heaps.
Women keep buying the shit without pockets, that’s on them.
Literally the dialogue I had with a friend:
- Handbags are ugly and unhealthy, they were pushed onto women by men, and are generally terrible. We should get rid of them
- But where am I supposed to put all my stuff then?
- Pockets
- But I don’t like the bulges they create
- Yeah, right, but you do look beautiful with that suitcase on your shoulder and the crooked spine will fit your style well
- No, you don’t understand, I mean, even empty pockets make clothes appear baggy and inelegant just from the extra fabrics and seams needed for them
- Suuure… Well, you do you, I guess…
Felt like pushing against the wall. Either Im fundamentally misunderstanding something abot female fashion, or some of them are too indoctrinated by it to even consider any alternatives.
They? Who/where?
Not Target or anywhere else my daughter and wife shop. They would love a source of real pockets.
PS: yes I will Google it but I will be surprised if these are brick and mortar stores. I hope so. But… Buying clothes online sucks ime.
I said online not brick and mortar. Physical stores aren’t going to sell niche items that women aren’t buying as often.
Buying clothes online is basically all I can do as I can’t find clothes that fit me in stores. It sucks infinitely less than before I could buy stuff online.
Clothes with decent pockets shouldn’t be niche. They aren’t for men. It’s so weird.
They’re niche because women don’t buy them.
From what I understand it’s because bulky pockets full of stuff aren’t visually appealing to women whereas men will rock cargo shorts and look like idiots without caring.
Target absolutely sells dresses and skirts with pockets. I have bought several.
Tried it, the fit is too difficult. How the hell do people handle all the bunching?
My wife buys men’s razors, deodorant, and a bunch of other stuff. Many women’s products are exploitative, expensive garbage.
Tried to convince my wife to buy men’s razors. Was unsuccessful.
Yet I’m annoyed because it was successful. Now I have razor cartridges all over the counter and no idea which is mine. I can see my shaver handle was used but don’t know if she used my blade or swapped cartridges, and which may be mine. Hell, I may not even know which handle is mine: how are they all out on the counter when mine is put away every time. Worst of all: I put the effort into stocking extra cartridges for my shaving needs so how are we always out and no one will let me know when they take the last one?
So you’ll eat her out, but sharing a razor is beyond the pale?
Personally, I only use razors twice before tossing them since they dull pretty quickly. I can’t tell just by looking.
Not knowing how many times a particular cartridge was used would bother me. Wouldn’t be a yuck thing.
Nothing the guy before you said was explicitly thing, either. Two legs are 10x the surface area of a face. Though the hair might be thinner (the word might is doing some having lifting) it has surely been dulled by the time you’re finished. A fresh razor can be the difference between a clean chin and razor burn all over your neck.
Any gender targeted product is usually higher priced IMO.
I own these, they’re Fabletics, not Hanes.
Can’t they both have it?
In an era where women have been grappling with the pocket predicament for years, Hanes seems to have missed the memo. The company’s decision to provide men with the luxury of pockets in even more male clothing has left women pondering the inequality of men having access to cargo shorts while most of women’s clothing has no pockets at all.
Literally nobody is going to stop you from trying on and buying cargo pants. You’ve always had access to cargo pants. You just need to buy what you want, and not what society deems appropriate.
Men’s clothing doesn’t always fit women’s shapes.
Mens clothing don’t always fit men either that’s why we have belts
That’s mainly in the shirts department, if anything
Cargo pants have no shape?
Well what if I want relatively cute clothes that also just so happen to have usable pockets?
Go buy them? They do exist.
I do?
I buy cute clothes with pockets when I can, but they can be hard to find in person especially for more form fitting wear that I kind of need to be able to try on to know whether it looks good on my figure.
Some men’s skinny jeans suffice and do have bigger pockets, but often the overall piece shape/cut pattern is often just a bit off and, to be blunt, makes my behind look flat.
I do also have a couple pairs of baggy men’s jeans; my pair of men’s Ariats are arguably my favorite because they’re comfy but still well-decorated/ornamented.
It does suck that you have to choose 2 between pockets, affordable, and cute. I never really considered buying anything other than cheap khakis for when I want to dress nice and cheap jeans and cargo pants for when I want to dress utilitarian. It would be nice to have cargo pants in anything other than khaki, black, or jeans.
They make them, it’s just each company that focuses on making them ends up going under, with a new one eventually taking their place, because not enough people are buying these designs.
I find more and more in my life that decisions made by very opinionated “designers” often dominate much more than most people realize, and I honestly think that’s a fairly big reason behind why a lot of name brand stores skimp on the pockets. God forbid someone be seen wearing their Women’s premium shorts with—gasp—a phone bulge?
It’s kind of one of those things where convention follows convention for convention’s sake, and likewise with innovations where it’s safe for the bottom line. It’s really hard to start a fashion brand; it’s a really, really oversaturated market. The issue is that if a company makes the “we have pockets!” its whole shtick, that that’s a very specific sticking point and doesn’t necessarily mean what they make is good.
I also don’t think I need to mention the side benefit to clothing brands that less pocket space makes handbags a de-facto requirement and thus another thing to be sold. Again, of course you can buy whichever clothes of which men’s will have pockets abound, but like, there’s a certain base level of wanting something fashionable that I think is reasonable, and that most men’s clothing fails to achieve even for their target gender.
Men’s clothing sucks ass. Walk into H&M, there’s 500 m² of women’s clothing for literally everything you can imagine, then there’s a little corner with: jeans (blue), jeans (dark blue), jeans (light blue), t-shirt (gray), t-shirt (dark gray), suit (black).
Then the neckbeards on Lemmy who exclusively wear the aforementioned fashion graveyard are like “just buy women’s clothing”, completely missing the fact that the average man does not even fit in most women’s clothes. And even if he does, it’ll probably be with a super saggy waistline and chest area (or saggy everything because most clothes assume tall=fat).
Even as a trans woman after more than 2 years of hormone (so absolutely not looking like man), finding women clothing that fits me is really difficult. It’s usually too narrow at the shoulders for instance, and too large at the hips
Well, you can buy Patagonia, but the price is not something that you will like
There’s a lot of women’s clothing companies ran by women. Y’all aren’t helping the pocket situation when Y’all aren’t putting pockets in, either.
none of my damn dresses have even the smallest of pockets. it’s bullshit
I know this doesn’t really solve the overall problem, but on Etsy you can find pocket belts. Essentially adding a cool looking pocket to your outfit.
Pocket belt? As in a fanny pack?
Think either Batman or something like this ,which basically adds pockets to your clothes.
the purse industry is in on this conspiracy
They literally are, this has been going on for a long time
If only consumers could use their money to influence fashion and design
Alright, on sale in my size so we ball. Probably won’t come back to report but who knows.
They rode up my thighs as the day progressed. They held my phone somewhat securely on an hour long mountain bike ride through the forest, an occasional check was needed. Comfy.
That sounds kinda cool actually, for being around the house.
Fabletics, not Hanes.
You can buy them online
I do often feel like I could use pockets when I’m only wearing underwear
This is a real need. It’s so annoying having to carry your phone by hand when you’re going from one room to another
This works as sarcasm and truth.
I tuck mine between the waistband and my body.
only works if you are skinny. source -me (a fat guy)
Thats what the fat folds over the waistband are for
What women underwear would be large enough to have a pocket? Most are dinky small even if the wearer isn’t.
Boy shorts.
You women are not supposed to have clothes with pockets so you waste more money buying useless and expensive bags. I thought the capitalist strategy was clear since the start /s
