yappycat
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It's wholly unnecessary.
In fact @yappycat maybe it could be a subject for your blog. It's one of those industries that has, for some reason, adopted the scantily clad women approach for advertising. I don't understand why when it's a universal tool for smoking cessation.
Yeah it's actually something I've been thinking on since...well since I started vaping really. A lot of people deny that vaping is gendered but it bloody is. The names and styles of the mods are overwhelmingly geared to appeal to men. The difference in the way I'm spoken to in vape shops by other customers until the moment they realise that I know as much as they do, if not more, about vaping. I'm certain that I'm not the only female who has experienced that time and time again. The way we as females are assumed to be male by default on forums...yep even on PotV!!! The occasional 'Bro' doesn't bother me one bit, but I sometimes bristle when I see threads that say shit like...'l need some help lads' or 'what do you lads think?'
I mean how come vaping is assumed to be a 'lad/bloke' thing? I don't get it, or was smoking always thought to be a bloke thing too? The Marlborough Man style of advertising would make it appear so, and I've come across the assumption a few times that vaping is somehow 'feminine' in relation to smoking...but then that contradicts the notion that vaping is gendered male????
Yep it's an issue I muse upon quite often...in my teeny girly make-up obsessed pea brain...