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There are _indeed_ female-specific bike saddles, which you could confirm by challenging your knowledge with a quick google. They generally have a changed cutout segment to accomodate pressure on different anatomy.

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There are saddles which work better for some women, but they do not work for all women and are not exclusively for women.

> Specialized has since advanced the Mimic technology with its Mirror saddles, which use 3D-printed polyurethane to fine-tune the densities in each area of the saddle and further reduce pressure on the sit bones. The company no longer markets its saddles according to gender, as men also love the Mimic and Mirror models.

There's never going to be a universal "you are male, so you CANNOT use this saddle", or vice versa... but there _are_ saddles which are marketed and designed to _more likely_ better suit men or women.

There is no saddle that is universal for anyone...so it seems like you're arguing a case no-one actually claimed?

(In case that's the intended effect, HN's markup uses *asterisks* for emphasised words. If not, as an n=1 data point, I find the thrown-off spacing a little harder to read, or maybe that's because of my narrow phone view.)

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