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dingus
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aerili wrote: wonderwoman wrote: What kills me is that the last time I went looking for a harness, I could only find 1 women's harness that had gear loops! It's as if we only climb in the gym or lead sport. Where is a lady trad climber supposed to put her nuts, huh? I agree. I use Misty Mountain women's harnesses b/c they have large gear loops. However, I noticed that their two men's trad models both have two extra gear loops that their women's do not. Huh?!
Male kangaroos have pouch envy.
"What? I have things to carry too????"
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iamthewallress
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Hilarious!
A bit of a tangential blabber here on "female" gear...
It's only been in the last ~4 years that climbing gear became branded as male and female. Prior to that there was non-gender-specified gear and there was a very small amount of women's gear, with the latter being lower-end stuff in flamboyant or gentle girl-friendly colors.
I remember when Evolv first started making shoes and the owner came to the LR and solicited our opinions about the color pink. I gave the owner a hard time...what about our opinions on performance? Turns out they already had a lot of that dialed and were really one of the leaders in making a whole variety (as opposed to one all-arounder) of performance footwear sized for gals and w/o necessarily involking Barbie or Libarace as a style guide.
Arcteryx is another company that gets my kudos for making versions of their best products (like harnesses and packs) sized differently for men and women w/o coloring them pink or putting glitter on them.
I'm not anti-pink or glitter, but I feel patronized when how we'll look is a bigger driving factor in gear design than how we'll perform.
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clausti
Jun 27, 2008, 5:40 PM
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i am vehemently anti-glitter.
just say no to glitter.
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getout87
Jun 27, 2008, 5:46 PM
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clausti wrote: i am vehemently anti-glitter. just say no to glitter.
yes, Yes, YES!!!!
err.....
no, No, NO!!!!!
which one if i agree with you?
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tigerlilly
Jun 27, 2008, 5:49 PM
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And I hate pink. 
Unfortunately, I have to buy shoes for fit, since there are really only about 2 or 3 styles on the planet that fit my uber-skinny Morton's feet. So, it was with a little reluctance that I bought a pair of Boreal Lunas. They are super comfy and are working so well that I forgive them their foo-foo color. Besides, they're getting dirty enough the pink isn't so obvious.  I do fine in unisex harnesses, but thank goodness for women-specific shoes!
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bizarrodrinker
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lvpyne wrote: "Free the Belay Slave -- Women Lead Climb, Too" [image]http://pynecone.org/FreeBelaySlave.jpg[/image] [image]http://pynecone.org/FreeBelaySlave_Zoom.jpg[/image] A helpful reminder posted at the local Tempe REI after a year of complaining about their sexist climbing displays.
ok I am just now able to see the photos that promted this thread.
I would probably have lost it if I saw this in a store. Or at least let out a solid bellow for a moment or two. Thats comical.
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tigerlilly
Jun 27, 2008, 6:09 PM
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getout87 wrote: clausti wrote: i am vehemently anti-glitter. just say no to glitter. yes, Yes, YES!!!! err..... no, No, NO!!!!! which one if i agree with you?
I vote for "Amen, sister!"
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Gmburns2000
Jun 27, 2008, 6:39 PM
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happiegrrrl wrote: The reason the men's harness' have extra gear loops is because they know a lot of guys are going to buy every new piece of gear on the market and doubles on anything they read about that someone else says they have doubles on.....hahahah...sort of.
Climbing companies are so sexist. I can't believe I've been the victim of a marketing ploy all this time. Sigh. the megacorps won. time to die...
crap, it's raining. how is one supposed to jump off a bridge when it's raining? sigh, save for another day, I guess...in the meantime, does anyone know of a nice biner I can use for my new, back-up .75 cam?
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lena_chita
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Jun 27, 2008, 7:02 PM
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clausti wrote: i am vehemently anti-glitter. just say no to glitter.
Oh, you don't know how MUCH I agree with this!
But my daughter seems to have the super-active allele of the glitter gene... don't ask me how she got it, b/c I don't think I had anything to do with it.
Pink "Dorothy" shoes with glitter, anyone?
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lhwang
Jun 27, 2008, 9:55 PM
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Agree with the whole performance vs aesthetics issue.
I bought K2's She's Piste tele skis a few years ago. Not a whole lot of good women specific tele gear out at the time... I almost didn't buy the skis because they had blue flowers on them. They ski great though so I guess pretty can be functional too.
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geogoddess
Jun 28, 2008, 1:07 AM
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Don't be dissing pink gear.
Thats my badass pink Racer-X:
Thats the badass grrrrll that rides that pink Racer-X:
I can rock a pink bike. And I like the flowers on my K2 Phat Luv tele boards very much! I think they're cute.
For the record, I didn't order a pink bike. That just happened to be what Titus shipped the bike shop. sweet!
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caliclimbergrl
Jun 28, 2008, 6:39 AM
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Hmmm ... well, I like pink, I like glitter (in moderation), I only wear women's specific shoes, and I have 2 harnesses, one women's specific, on "guy's" harness, and I like the women's one better.
But I do lead 5.10 trad on occasion. I'm a girl and I like being a girl. I also like being a competent climber! My boyfriend's nickname for me is "Princess Badass." I love it! :)
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Jun 28, 2008, 3:29 PM
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clausti wrote: i am vehemently anti-glitter. just say no to glitter.
Where's your sense of sparkle?
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clausti
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uhoh wrote: clausti wrote: i am vehemently anti-glitter. just say no to glitter. Where's your sense of sparkle?
sparkle's all in my eyes, sweetcheeks. don't need none on my clothes.
or elsewhere.
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clausti wrote: sparkle's all in my eyes, sweetcheeks. don't need none on my clothes. or elsewhere.
You wanted to kill me? I almost fell off the chair-- on my poor sprained ankle.
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Jun 30, 2008, 1:52 PM
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geogoddess wrote: Don't be dissing pink gear. Thats my badass pink Racer-X: [img]http://img2.putfile.com/thumb/5/14300154470.jpg[/img] Thats the badass grrrrll that rides that pink Racer-X: [img]http://img2.putfile.com/thumb/5/14300154487.jpg[/img] I can rock a pink bike. And I like the flowers on my K2 Phat Luv tele boards very much! I think they're cute.
'xcept that, (ironically), unless I'm mistaken, from the picture your bike appears to be a men's bike!
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geogoddess wrote: Don't be dissing pink gear. Thats my badass pink Racer-X: [img]http://img2.putfile.com/thumb/5/14300154470.jpg[/img] Thats the badass grrrrll that rides that pink Racer-X: [img]http://img2.putfile.com/thumb/5/14300154487.jpg[/img] I can rock a pink bike. And I like the flowers on my K2 Phat Luv tele boards very much! I think they're cute. For the record, I didn't order a pink bike. That just happened to be what Titus shipped the bike shop. sweet!
i have a couple of pairs of phat luvs, love the the ski......the flowerly graphics...........not so much.
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I use mostly men's gear, or unisex. It's my parents' fault. They brought home a shiny new bike for my 5th birthday, which happened to be a boys' bike. I was ecstatic - it looked so cool! Then it turned out they had ordered the girls' bike; it hadn't arrived in time, so they borrowed the boys' bike from the local shop to stand in and show me until the pink one arrived. I was heartbroken.
I'm not opposed to women-specific gear... except for golf clubs. You can't hit women's clubs with a 95 mph swing speed.
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geogoddess
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blueshrimp wrote: geogoddess wrote: Don't be dissing pink gear. Thats my badass pink Racer-X: [img]http://img2.putfile.com/thumb/5/14300154470.jpg[/img] Thats the badass grrrrll that rides that pink Racer-X: [img]http://img2.putfile.com/thumb/5/14300154487.jpg[/img] I can rock a pink bike. And I like the flowers on my K2 Phat Luv tele boards very much! I think they're cute. 'xcept that, (ironically), unless I'm mistaken, from the picture your bike appears to be a men's bike!
It is a men's bike indeed! I don't fit most women's frames, I have a really long torso and monkey arms. I don't fit most women's shoes either; I have wide feet and not much arch. I've spent alot of time in field boots and I was pretty excited when manufacturer's started making women-specific boots and especially ski boots... until I realized that I was doomed to wear men's gear jsut because of the fit.
I test-rode the small Racer-X frames before I picked out my bike, and it was a really good fit. When I ordered the bike there was a wait-list... and then Titus shipped the pink one, so I got my bike in about 4 days instead of 6 weeks. Why they made a pink one, who knows?
So I do like to buy women's gear when I can, and I appreciate having something that isn't black, blue, or steel gray. I like a little color in my life.
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clausti wrote: uhoh wrote: clausti wrote: i am vehemently anti-glitter. just say no to glitter. Where's your sense of sparkle? sparkle's all in my eyes, sweetcheeks. don't need none on my clothes. or elsewhere.
Thanks for the link, amiga, but I don't have the time to let a video load on dial-up. I got the gist of it from the title though and quite frankly, if I had a vagina I doubt I'd ever put glitter anywhere near it.
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tigerlilly
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geogoddess wrote: Don't be dissing pink gear. Thats my badass pink Racer-X: [img]http://img2.putfile.com/thumb/5/14300154470.jpg[/img] Thats the badass grrrrll that rides that pink Racer-X: [img]http://img2.putfile.com/thumb/5/14300154487.jpg[/img] I can rock a pink bike. And I like the flowers on my K2 Phat Luv tele boards very much! I think they're cute. For the record, I didn't order a pink bike. That just happened to be what Titus shipped the bike shop. sweet!
A Titus Racer-X is another of those things which can be forgiven for being pink. Racer-X's rock!
Got a story to go with those pics? That's not a natural position for a bike. Looks like you're ok...
Kathy
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tigerlilly wrote: geogoddess wrote: Don't be dissing pink gear. Thats my badass pink Racer-X: [img]http://img2.putfile.com/thumb/5/14300154470.jpg[/img] Thats the badass grrrrll that rides that pink Racer-X: [img]http://img2.putfile.com/thumb/5/14300154487.jpg[/img] I can rock a pink bike. And I like the flowers on my K2 Phat Luv tele boards very much! I think they're cute. For the record, I didn't order a pink bike. That just happened to be what Titus shipped the bike shop. sweet! A Titus Racer-X is another of those things which can be forgiven for being pink. Racer-X's rock! Got a story to go with those pics? That's not a natural position for a bike. Looks like you're ok... Kathy
Well, what happened was, the route goes up the little gouged cleft on the far right of the photo. There isn't any sight distance, so I came barreling around the corner (from about where the photo was taken), hit the base of the cleft, made it up about two feet and my front rim hit the wall, but I had alot of speed, so me & the bike kinda richocheted off to the left, and I bailed! My Bike landed in about the position its in right now. I kinda did a running dyno move off the wall.... you know how those go...... "eeeekkkk!!!" and its over that fast! Heh :) Anyhow I pulled my bike about a foot over, so my friend Jeff could try to ride up the gouge.... Instead he stopped and burst out laughing, and took those photos. I forget whether we rode that section, but if you PM me, I'll send ya to our Putfile website for video of a steep little barrel chute I DID ride. Starring, of course, the pink racer -x :) I couldn't figure out how to embed the video.
Gooseberry Mesa, down by Zion, is really fun!
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