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Post: 93094671_1 created on Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:01:36 +0000
Posted: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:01:36 +0000

So right now in the cash shop a lot of the items coming in are for females. (Princess of the Underworld,Mary McFly, Tedious Lady, Kikila, Petite Rose, Impression of a Deer, etc.)
On top of this the animal bundles from "Bundlemas" have contained primarily female items and this is not a newly occurring trend.
While I understand Gaia is eager for users to spend RLC and these trends indicate people using female avatars as a primary demographic is it to much to ask for a better attempt at equality?
It seems to be a huge imbalance that has persisted for far too long, if you want those with male avatars to part with hard earned cash you have to give a reason, so hey, why not?

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Post: 93094671_2 created on Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:04:14 +0000
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Supposedly, only a certain subculture of female fashion sells well to the exclusion of everything else.

So Gaia doesn't want to sell anything that doesn't sell well.

Even to find out if something COULD sell well that isn't a certain subculture of female fashion.
Not even all of female fashion.

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Post: 93094671_3 created on Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:13:54 +0000
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It makes sense that if something sells, to imitate and continue to sell but it seems that it wouldn't be too great a cost to them to broach these others water and perhaps stumble upon another cash cow.
I know there are quite a few styles for males I would happily pay for, as I'm sure many others would.

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Post: 93094671_4 created on Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:21:07 +0000
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Stumbling across another cash cow would be refreshing instead of the latest recolour of what sold well in the past.

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Post: 93094671_5 created on Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:23:09 +0000
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Jayce Reinhardt

Indeed, the speed with which the Nekola recolours was rather astounding, if they could put that amount of effort into testing new ground maybe they'd make more in the long term.

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Post: 93094671_6 created on Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:41:02 +0000
Posted: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 20:41:02 +0000

Honestly, I'd be happy if we stop getting a million cutesy or angelic items. They've never really appealed to me and the market is saturated with them

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Post: 93094671_7 created on Thu, 10 Jul 2014 21:02:04 +0000
Posted: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 21:02:04 +0000

For a while I didn't care because I knew I either:
a.) Couldn't afford any new cool masculine item they made anyway at this point
or b.) Even if I could I wouldn't want to support Gaia for the way they've been running their site of late.

I'm still not ready to spend my first penny on this site, but the recent Towns 2 announcement gave me a little hope. If they just earn our respect more (particularly with the economy and actual staff/user communication), I'll totally buy some masculine stuff like I've been starving for in this boring, soulless and repetitive sea of pastel, mint, pink, frill and oversexualized female pixels.

I'd happily be a target audience for them to try to make more male and masculine items. It should already be a no-brainer for the sake of variety and diversity, but hell if it's gotta be about money then you gotta work to earn my respect first >:{C~

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Post: 93094671_8 created on Thu, 10 Jul 2014 23:07:48 +0000
Posted: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 23:07:48 +0000

I love frilly, girly items and even I'm tired of the nonstop influx of them. It'd be great to see more masculine or even just unisex items.

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Post: 93094671_9 created on Thu, 10 Jul 2014 23:10:27 +0000
Posted: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 23:10:27 +0000

Gaia should really make more unisex items, thats for sure!

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Post: 93094671_10 created on Thu, 10 Jul 2014 23:17:47 +0000
Posted: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 23:17:47 +0000

If only they'd take note of the tings people said in this particular forum, it'd nice to see the presence of some of the authority among discussions pertaining to the site.

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Post: 93094671_11 created on Thu, 10 Jul 2014 23:19:33 +0000
Posted: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 23:19:33 +0000

I'm all for more gender equality.

And I think if I was using a male base, I would also be annoyed about things like King of Coins.
You'd think it would have mostly male or at least neutral poses, right? Wrong, apparently.
That's just the first example I could think of right now but there are more things of that kind.

(Btw your user name cracked me up.)

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Post: 93094671_12 created on Thu, 10 Jul 2014 23:31:24 +0000
Posted: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 23:31:24 +0000

Anjoulie

In Silence I Judge was an item in one of the male bundlemas lots but pretty sure it has a thong and bra in the item set. There are a few male items that do that but not many female item doing the same. D<
Danke, most people just question what an olm is.

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Post: 93094671_13 created on Thu, 10 Jul 2014 23:39:21 +0000
Posted: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 23:39:21 +0000

While on a bigger scale (as in beyond just Gaia) a lot of media is pretty male-centric already, I do get annoyed that Gaia tends to put out stuff that's pretty extremely gendered.

As in, if it's a "masculine" item it's likely to be bulky fantasy armor or weapons.
And if it's feminine, it's likely to be really cutesy s**t or flowy ruffly god-knows-what.

Which isn't a problem for people who like that kind of thing, but a little variety for people who don't would be nice to see.