Winter Hue
-shrugs- Honestly I think Gaia pumps out more feminine items because their are more paying females than males on this site. Also I tend to believe that female items are generally the big money makers for Gaia. If I was Gaia, I wouldn't focus on the gender that didn't pay as much.
This is a point that was raised in
another thread about this issue, actually. There's an obvious gender skew in the user base, but, as was pointed out, there's a notable correlation between the increasing amount of superfrillykawaii crap we get with every single item release and the departure of male users from the site. It's not a matter of there being more women who are paying money, because that's going to be the case regardless when the user base is so utterly skewed. I used to be spend a lot of money here on gaia (anywhere between $100-200/month), but I stopped primarily because I did not want my purchasing to be construed as a support for the absurd imbalance in the item availability for each gender.
So does this mean, as a male user of the site who has stopped spending money here, that I no longer count when it comes to wanting less frilly and cutesy and pastel and would rather see more items that I can actually
use with the male base that don't ******** with the proportions and allow me to move outside of the decidedly narrow niches the currently available items allow for? Because, frankly, I'm damned tired of doing the same themes over and over and over and over again in different variants because I have nothing else I can work with to do otherwise.