Caterpillar Badges (Shameless Commercialization)

Following a conversation with some friends about the possibility of my making a few badges with my blog's caterpillar on them, I had a few made and they've turned out to be quite popular. All the badges I ordered have been sold, but I'm now taking orders for anyone else who's interested. I'm selling them for NZ$3.00 each, plus shipping costs for those of you I don't run into on a regular basis. If you'd like one (or more), send me a message at caterpillarequalsn@gmail.com letting me know, and I can get them made.


Back to regular broadcasting soon.

Man-[Noun]

Recently I’ve noticed that the concept of reinventing supposedly girlish or ‘women-only’ products such as iced coffee and dip by adding the prefix ‘man-’ to them has become a popular marketing ploy. Everything these days seems to be marketed at men. ‘Man-sized chips’, ‘tea that men can drink’, ‘made by men for men’, and so on and so on. And apparently, it works.

And it got me wondering: how far could you take this apparently successful man-[noun] formula? By making products that really are secure ‘woman-only’ products ‘manly’, could you actually sell them to men? Would it be possible to make, say, high heels appeal to a manly man’s manly tastes?

So here’s my attempt at taking a few products that are universally regarded as pretty much women’s territory and making them manly.

The results are in..

You may or may not have voted in the poll I had running in my sidebar this last month or so. You know, the one that proved to the world just how popular I really am. Either way, the poll is now closed, and it turns out you're a fat bunch of sadists, as exemplified in this here graph I whipped up (unconventionally, but maths never was my strong suit).

Thank you to all those who voted. I'll get right on churning out those recounts of all the shit that's rained down on me in my wee lifetime, and hopefully have something up soon.