{"id":3737,"date":"2016-05-08T20:38:39","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T04:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=3737"},"modified":"2016-05-09T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T00:30:00","slug":"the-price-of-pink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/the-price-of-pink\/","title":{"rendered":"The price of pink"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Stephanie Blair\r\nCopy Editor<\/pre>\n<p>Every time I walk down\u00a0the toiletries aisle of a store I am bombarded with products that proclaim \u201cFOR MEN\u201d or \u201cWomen\u2019s ______.\u201d It took me longer than I care to admit to realize that one costs more than the other.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-09-at-5.26.27-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-05-09 at 5.26.27 PM\" width=\"214\" height=\"287\" class=\" wp-image-3800 alignright\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-09-at-5.26.27-PM.png 353w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-09-at-5.26.27-PM-224x300.png 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So, I went searching for prices to demonstrate this inequality. What I found wasn\u2019t super surprising to me: women\u2019s products cost more. Often a non-gendered product was the cheapest, though some would argue that some scents are inherently male or female.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, if y\u2019all don\u2019t want to smell like a particular gender, decide first if it\u2019s worth the extra money. This is college: we\u2019re all poor and no one cares if you smell like \u201ccocoa butter kisses\u201d or \u201cthunderstrike flashfire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Products:<\/p>\n<p>Winco generic brand, Laxatives. (Everyone poops, get over it.) I checked, there\u2019s no difference in ingredients!<br \/>\nNon-gendered: $1.94 for 25 (7.8 cents per pill)<br \/>\nWomen\u2019s: $3.60 for 30 (12.0 cents per pill)<\/p>\n<p>Speed Stick, Deodorant.<br \/>\nMen\u2019s\/default gender: $1.98 ($0.66 per ounce)<br \/>\n\u201cLady Speed Stick:\u201d $2.15 ($0.91 per ounce)<\/p>\n<p>Bic Pens (on Amazon), blue ink, retractable ballpoint<br \/>\nUngendered: $7.67 for 12<br \/>\n\u201cBIC for her:\u201d $7.49 for 2<\/p>\n<p>Gilette, Shaving cream.<br \/>\nStandard\/Ungendered: $2.69<br \/>\n\u201cVenus\u201d\/Women\u2019s: $3.24<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernjournal\/files\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-09-at-5.26.27-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2016-05-09 at 5.26.27 PM\" width=\"353\" height=\"473\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-09-at-5.26.27-PM.png 353w, https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/files\/2016\/05\/Screen-Shot-2016-05-09-at-5.26.27-PM-224x300.png 224w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 353px) 100vw, 353px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every time I walk down the toiletries aisle of a store I am bombarded with products that proclaim \u201cFOR MEN\u201d or \u201cWomen\u2019s ______.\u201d It took me longer than I care to admit to realize that one costs more than the other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":3800,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}