This is bullshit!!!! Tools for women??!!????

[CatWoman]

I don't need a pink fucking hammer, or azure blue screwdriver!!!

This is pandering at its worst!!!

http://www.barbarak.com/

[Dookus]

1. oooh!

Pick me up one of them pink hammers if ya see one, ok? Thanks!

[MuseRider]

2. True

but I would buy them! I hate to say this since I am hardly a girly girl but I would like them. (running and hiding my face in shame)

[CatWoman]

5. LOL

Sorry, but I would think that a regular hammer is a lot cheaper than a "designer blue" hammer.

[MuseRider]

8. That is why my tools

are MAN tools, much cheaper. I actually use the hammer from a tool kit I gave my kids when they were little boys. It fits my hands better. If I need a big one I have a hand sledge but I wish it was pink, oh how I wish it was pink. :D

[CatWoman]

9. stop it!! you're killing me!! lmao!!!

:D

[haele]

49. That's what fingernail polish is for...

I do that all the time and nobody steals my tools at work. However, someone did steel my flourescent pink two-foot stepladder with the hippie daisies and sayings painted over it in a union shipyard...not to throw it away, but apparently because they were "short like me" and felt they needed it more than I, at that time a mere electrician, needed it.
I had it all rigged up to backpack or latch onto my big toolbox as needed, too.

:(

There is also Plasti-Dip, a product you can dip the handles of your tools into to put a colored coating to identify your tools should you work in a shop with other folks.

http://www.plastidip.com/industrial/what.html

If you don't mind having a couple gallons around the house, you can mix your own colors to make your pink and/or periwinkle blue tools ... ;)

Haele

[NMDemDist2]

3. ROFL I have a "girlie" toolkit in my car.

It was given to me as a gag gift and all the guys at work teased me unmercifully about it... till they needed a jump to start their car or some other tool for something

making them use the "girlie" tools and the jokes were well worth it

I love it!

[NC_Nurse]

4. But does it have "Prada" or "Gucci" on it?

Puh-leeze!:wtf:

[TroubleMan]

6. LOL...Maybe they'll come out with a Mary Kate & Ashley line of tools

nt

[eyesroll]

7. I'd like to say I can understand scaled-down tools for a woman's hand...

But I use man tools, dammit, (OK, that came out more suggestively than it needed to) and I'm a short girl with short stubby fingers. And I have no trouble.

[flamingyouth]

10. Actually, the 'tips' part isn't so bad

Of course, if you really need to change a tire, it's highly unlikely you'll be near the Internet, but whatever.:shrug:

[liberalhistorian]

11. PINK hammer?

PINK, for God's sake? BLECH. I don't even use tools but even if I did, this is one gal who has ALWAYS HATED pink and any shade remotely resembling it, along with yellow.

[efhmc]

12. Funny. I have very utilitarian tools (no cute colors) but my younger

daughter recieved as a present for her graduation from undergrad (I am pretty sure that it came from Target) 9 years ago a pink case with tools in it. She still has it and has used the tools through about 4 townhouses/apartments and 2 houses. she still has the kit and I used the wrench out of it the last time I helped her fix a broken toilet. We would never have chosen that cute color but the tools have held up and done the job.

[Pithlet]

13. I hate it

When my hammer clashes with my Jimmy Choos.

[RoadRunner]

14. This is a great site - they've got some neat stuff!

[Bertha Venation]

36. hmm... toolbelt...

I usually get mine from Toys in Babeland. :evilgrin:

[madrchsod]

15. westwing hammers

proudly made in rockford ,illinois has a wide range of hammers that can easly fit a smaller hand-man or woman...mr natural sayz- "get the right tool for the job" i`d lay odds those "girlie" hammers and other tools are made in china.

[Downtown Hound]

16. This is why women could never fight in combat

those pink assault rifles are just too damn easy to spot.

[-..__...]

37. For the fashion conscious infantry soldier.

His.



Hers.



(and yes, these are the real deal).

[MrSandman]

47. Does that blue rifle...

have a bayonet lug and flash supressor?

[MikeG]

17. Real men head-butt the effing nail, OK.

[Jade Fox]

51. That explains a lot!

:silly:

[Mr.Green93]

18. Snap-on?

[SarahB]

19. I thought this thread was about something else.

:evilgrin:

When I want to do household tasks though, I just want something of good quality that'll get the job done rather than something pink.

[jukes]

20. CatWoman

you've hit that phallic nail on the head. patronizing bullshit.

here in GA, they just intro'd "spay/neuter" car tags: they display profile images of a dog and cat, heads only. the dog is blue, the cat is pink.

*REALLY* pisses me off.

when the fuck will humans quit treating more than half of the population as childlike toys?


:grr:

[CatWoman]

21. JUKES!!!

I didn't know you were in Georgia!!!!!

I need some help getting a couple cats rescued.

Later I'll send you a DU mail.

:hi:

[jukes]

22. cool

i'll be watching.

[CatWoman]

23. heh

I'm a little tipsy right now, so give me time.

my damn cats keep jumping all over me, and are making it hard to type.

[Bertha Venation]

34. Jukes, that IS silly, but you know what?

When I was a kid, I thought dogs were boys and cats were girls. The reproductive dilemma that assumption caused never occurred to me. But it might reveal an early awareness of my sexuality. ;)

Where are you in GA? Mrs. V.'s great aunt lives in Cartersville, and her mom was born there. (Mrs. V.'s from round Knoxville, TN.)

[Ellen Forradalom]

24. Ergonomic is one thing, silly colors are another

sheesh.

[DS1]

25. *zips his pants back up* nevermind then

:evilgrin:

[CatWoman]

26. but, Martin

is it pink?????

:hi:

[matcom]

28. MINE sure as hell is!

:D

[CatWoman]

31. LOL

I thought yours was yellow??

:D

:*

[BlueCollar]

27. actually

I used to work with a woman who bought as many pink screwdrivers/pliers/hammers etc. as she could from the MAC and Snap-on trucks...

nobody stole/"borrowed" them...and she was/probably still is one of the most competent airline mechanics I've ever had the priviledge to work with.

The tool is only as good as the person using it...color is irrelevant

[bratcatinok]

29. I like the yellow of

DeWalt personally. Of course I've had to put my initials on my tools so I did that in a hot pink permanent marker where fiance doesn't shove them in his tool kit.

[Bat Boy]

30. Everyone knows a pink hammer pounds a nail in...

well...it's different...

You girls wouldn't understand.

[Bertha Venation]

32. In other news, Secret Deodorant has a new tag line:

"Strong enough for a woman." (saw it in a commercial last night and had to go back & play it again (tivo) to be sure I'd seen right)

It's about god damned time. I was always flabbergasted by that "strong enough for a man but made for a woman" bs. :eyes:

edit: no, I'm not now going to use Secret deodorant. It's too expensive; the same ingredient in the same percentage is available in ten other less expensive products.

[CatWoman]

33. *hiding face in shame*

I use Secret.

I'm very sensitive, and the less expensive brands break me out into rashes.

[Bertha Venation]

35. That's not good enough. I demand MORE rationalization of

your deodorant choice!

I'm waiting . . . . *taps foot*

;)

[bratcatinok]

39. I don't use Secret

because it didn't protect me as well as Lady Speed Stick. I also don't like all of the clear sticks because they don't seem to work as well as the one's that can leave a white stripe. The thing is, I don't put it on heavily enough to leave a white stripe.

Is that TMI?

[Bertha Venation]

45. LOL

It seems nothing is ever TMI around here. ;)

[CatWoman]

40. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Don't hit me, Bertha :cry:

[Bertha Venation]

43. oh, heavens

I'm not butch enough to hit you. Ask Mrs. V., whose favorite thing ever said to me to date is, "Baby, you can't do butch."

[achtung_circus]

38. My Scottish grandmother always said

that horses sweat,
men perspire
and women glow.
Wahtever that means. Of course, Sunday afternoon Tea was always conducted as if the Queen was about to drop in for scones.

[Bertha Venation]

41. that always baffled me.

How can a woman who bakes scones, ostensibly from scratch, and prepares a formal Sunday Tea keep her schvitzing to a "glow?"

[CatWoman]

42. not to change the subject

but what, exactly, is a "scone"???

[Bertha Venation]

44. a lump of stiff dough, about twice the size of a biscuit

It's in no particular shape and is dry and often has some dried fruit in it. I'm not fond of them.

[achtung_circus]

46. Yumm.

"Scones" are pronounced with a short "ounce" and rhymes with "Fonz". Scones are a popular accompaniment to afternoon tea and are often served with jam & whipped cream."

My Nana's were the best. Served with Orange Pekoe tea (Twinings is the best.) Also acceptable, cucumber sandwiches, tomato sandwiches, cookies, on and on. High Tea is a tradition woth preserving.

For Nana the only acceptable fruit in scones were raisins, but take a look here:

<http://members.aol.com/JimG002/scnidx1.html>

[ulysses]

48. get some real tools!

http://www.leevalley.com/home/main.asp

Wish I could remember who originally posted the Lee Valley link - someone here.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

50. OH boy! Do they have it in leopard?

:D haha.

[Longhorn]

52. I actually looked for pink screwdrivers at Home Depot awhile back.

I'm so tired of my husband stealing my tools. He's a remodeling contractor and owns every tool imaginable but grabs mine in a pinch and they never make it back to my toolbox. And he's never around with his tools when I need them! I figured he wouldn't steal my pink tools. Alas, they had none so I settled on a set of orange screwdrivers.

Target used to sell a line of "Do-It-Herself" tools in pink and baby blue, I think, but they weren't a very high quality. I'll have to check out your site! Thanks! :toast:

[Zomby Woof]

53. but they have home delivery

I thought you wanted your own kind of tools!

[CatWoman]

55. ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ZOMBY!!!!!

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[niceperson]

54. how cute!

While I can see why a woman in an aggressively male environment might not want to work with overly cutesy tools, I personally like everything I own to look nice. If the tools are good quality, I'd love to have a set around the house.