A week or so ago, I walked into my sister's room, and she had this heart-shaped ice cube tray, which, of course, makes heart-shaped ice cubes.
I said to her, "you know, if women didn't exist, things like
that wouldn't exist, because no man would
ever have a flash of intuition and say 'Eureka! What we really need are custom-shaped ice cubes!'."
She goes, "that's not true-- Javier (her BF) liked it" (ignoring the fact that he probably liked it in that "oh, that's amusing...and utterly useless" kinda way
), and I said "no, I didn't say that guys couldn't/wouldn't
like it-- I said that it would never have been 'invented'." Eventually she conceded the point. I feel the same way about all these home shopping networks like HSN or QVC (I only know the acronyms because my mother and grandmother watch them religiously)-- they wouldn't exist if not for the existence of females. I think that this springs from men's typically "functional" mindset, as opposed to women's general "decorative/aesthetic" mentality.
So my question is this: Am I correct in assuming that these things would not exist without women?
Or am I a closet sexist...