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by merrua 4540 days ago
I understand why people where offended it was a gift at a tech conference. Its not that it matters if you paint your nails or not (man or women) but there is usually a lot of inappriopiate to venue advertising to women (think pink biros, and pink science stuff) and I understand the feeling to nip that in the bud. Btw to all the straight males report they paint their nails, anyone use nail art blogs? I've hear of someone thinking about a program for designing nail art. It seems a technically interesting problemset. Scan nail size by finger, or input it. I've not read of any studies on how much variance is there on fingernail size. (though im sure someone has). Then consider what is the smallest paintable size for the users "brush".
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I read a few blogs as well as subreddits, but at least for now, lack the skill to do real 'art' myself.

A program would be an interesting exercise, I guess.

As for 'inappropriate' advertising to women, I'd say that stuff shouldn't /not/exist any more than ones pitched towards any other specific group too, but the neutral products should be done in a way not to exclude anyone, with the expectation that people will eventually gravitate towards them as they serve different functions - for people already engaged vs getting that initial engagement.

Reddit has some relevant subs.

http://www.reddit.com/r/RedditLaqueristas/

Amoung others.