Pinterest isn't feminine: An essay on ladymags and aspirational clipping

I think it means that Pinterest is a modern scrapbook for women who make scrapbooks, not all women. Not representative of an entire gender, but of a subset.

i think that it's making an implicit distinction (which might not exist) between social and biological cause. the argument is that it's rooted in a social activity, which might be (implicitly, is) constructed / learnt, rather than innate.

(and it's a better article than i expected - credit for being honest enough to detail the "defined by consumption" aspect in fairly neutral terms (or maybe it's just the male in me that finds that a little crass? don't you know that all value comes from winning the game?))

That line is in response to the question, 'Is Pinterest fundamentally feminine in some way?' The answer of no in that context is that Pinterest is a derivative behavior associated with 'women's magazines' which is also not fundamentally feminine.

There isn't a 'gift search' feature... just search. Some of the stuff might be gifts I'm guessing.

> totally insensitive sexist who needs to shut up now

Don't worry about this. Really. It's a very valid psychological observation that there's overall differences between men and women.

It's only sexist if you ignore that these differences can result from a large combination of socialization, upbringing, and culture (in addition to some genetics). It would only be sexist if you were being partial or biased in your analysis in a way that favored a gender.

Men don't share? You check out this site Reddit.com where a few guys get together to share pictures of stuff they like.

First, it's a some American women thing. The fact that this is common with women in this culture tells you something about this culture more than something about women. Similarly, something in this culture tells men that it is acceptable to talk about feelings while drunk, but not sober, until those conversations have happened enough times to have cemented an emotional intimacy between a group (2+) of friends.

I can point you to masculine evangelical USian culture where it is considered a mark of friendship to share spiritual struggles and aspirations, carefully negotiated within the intimacy of the group. (In some ways, it's a very healthy masculine culture, and I miss that part.) In this culture, it wouldn't seem out of place for a man to keep a clipping board of spiritual aspirations. (I think I've seen it, in fact, IIRC.)