Is a balance of male items too much to ask for in the store?

RexRed

Is a balance of male items too much to ask for in the store?

Please do a better job at balancing the male to female items, less lingerie and more "practical items", scripts, utilities and fixing items that don't work correctly.

 

 

nemesis10

RexRed said:

Is a balance of male items too much to ask for in the store?

Please do a better job at balancing the male to female items, less lingerie and more "practical items", scripts, utilities and fixing items that don't work correctly.

 

You have run into the limitation of artistic creation.  Imagine if you told a painter such as Raphael or Botticelli that "you paint too many pretty women!  How about some men?"  They would probably stare at you as they ponder that this person doesn't understand how artistic creation and inspiration works nor does he understand the market place.  I can understand your frustration since I tend to buy mainly masculine products but i do understand that they are niche. that lingerie and other female stuff pays the bill for these artists and keeps the marketplace open.

FirstBastion

You are yelling at the wind.  Or to use another,  trying to divert the flow of water in a large river.  A content producer must offer and sell what the market needs and buys.  It is not more complicated than that. 

RexRed

nemesis10 said:

RexRed said:

Is a balance of male items too much to ask for in the store?

Please do a better job at balancing the male to female items, less lingerie and more "practical items", scripts, utilities and fixing items that don't work correctly.

 

You have run into the limitation of artistic creation.  Imagine if you told a painter such as Raphael or Botticelli that "you paint too many pretty women!  How about some men?"  They would probably stare at you as they ponder that this person doesn't understand how artistic creation and inspiration works nor does he understand the market place.  I can understand your frustration since I tend to buy mainly masculine products but i do understand that they are niche. that lingerie and other female stuff pays the bill for these artists and keeps the marketplace open.

 I wonder why Botticelli males did not sell as well as his females? (cynical)

 

nemesis10

RexRed said:

nemesis10 said:

RexRed said:

Is a balance of male items too much to ask for in the store?

Please do a better job at balancing the male to female items, less lingerie and more "practical items", scripts, utilities and fixing items that don't work correctly.

 

You have run into the limitation of artistic creation.  Imagine if you told a painter such as Raphael or Botticelli that "you paint too many pretty women!  How about some men?"  They would probably stare at you as they ponder that this person doesn't understand how artistic creation and inspiration works nor does he understand the market place.  I can understand your frustration since I tend to buy mainly masculine products but i do understand that they are niche. that lingerie and other female stuff pays the bill for these artists and keeps the marketplace open.

 I wonder why Botticelli males did not sell as well as his females? (cynical)

 

This is the ouroboros.... he almost certainly painted men because the commission required it but they are less interesting than his women because his heart wasn't there.  They are a bit like Michelangelo's women who have bodies like linebackers and were possibly created using men as life models.  I am trying to think of a solution that would be practical that might suit you.  There isn’t a way to change the public's taste this way or Revlon would be making bank by selling equal amounts of cosmetics to men as they do to women.  One could try to force every artist to make an uninspired male product if they want to submit a female product but what to do when all the artists flee to freer pastures.  I suppose we could require that every customer must buy a product of the opposite gender if they buy a character or garment.  I'm not seeing a solution.

SickleYield

FirstBastion said:

You are yelling at the wind.  Or to use another,  trying to divert the flow of water in a large river.  A content producer must offer and sell what the market needs and buys.  It is not more complicated than that. 

 

Yep lol. My first article about this very issue was in 2017, and it is still there.

I'm a vendor that likes butch and male aesthetics more than fem and female aesthetics for the most part, and I've been doing this full time since 2010 (and I'm a newcomer compared to some vendors here). I make a lot of unisex products. The reason I do that is because I want the masc version to exist and to do that, I have to sell it on the fem content. If I split them the male one just doesn't sell.The only time I can afford to a male-only product is when it's underwear, usually (and it's been a while since I risked doing that).

Richard Haseltine

A solution would be to recruit more buyers of male content, which should make it a better bet for content creators.

richardandtracy

I have done freebie pose sets where it costs absolutely nothing to download both male and female sets. The female set is downloaded between 3 and 4 times as frequently as the identical male set - as proved with athletic stretching, warm up, sprint start, hurdles, vomiting and techno dance pose sets where identical poses are offered for male and females. There really is much less interest in male stuff, even when male stuff is totally free. So, if it's not taken even when free, I think you are not going to win this. Regards, Richard.