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by robotron 5693 days ago
If you have a vagina.
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Sadly that seems to be the case. Unless I'm missing something there doesn't seem to be too much there for those of us with a penis. Seems like a bit of missed opportunity if you ask me.
At this time, Boutiques is only available in the U.S. and only for women’s fashion, but we plan to expand in the future
I don't care if you're sexist, just keep it out of HN mkay ?

3/10, almost chuckled.

In what way was that sexist? As far as I can see there is no menswear section. The most you can accuse the original comment of is being insensitive to transvestites.
Oh wow, didn't notice that actually. I guess the formulation triggered my reaction more than anything.
"If you are a women" would have sufficed, or more correctly "If you want to buy women's clothing" e.g. as a present. I've noticed many comments reflect a typical consumer mindset i.e. people aren't interested in things unless they are the target audience and can use or buy it.
I perhaps should have worded it differently but was trying to make my statement as simply as possible. I'm actually speaking from a business standpoint - this new site/feature has been marketed pretty heavily. "A new way to shop for fashion", "Google wants to dress you", etc. all in arguably locations that probably skew male. I haven't seen any mention of it being targeted only to those wanting to purchase women's clothing and think the message is off because of that.