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I find a lot of marketing directed at women patronizing in the extreme and incredibly insulting to anyone’s intelligence. There’s a “Now, girls” element that gets me genuinely wincing on a regular basis.
I always watch market trends, even though I do know a lot better. I hadn’t heard of Fem Tech as a big thing, though. It turns out to be a femalespecific bandwidth of technologies and hype directed at women’s health.
What could possibly go wrong? There’s nothing wrong with the idea. Acknowledging the existence of over half the world’s population is also bit of an improvement.
That said, it’s also very much a health thing. That means very big money, corporate interests, and online hazards with data collection.
Against a backdrop of a persistent and extremely primitive toxic male corporate pseudoculture, I have my doubts.
Note: Just to explain a very different male perspective about toxic male culture – You might call them men, but we don’t and never will. They’re noisy crybabies, utterly useless, and an insult to humanity, not “men” in any possible sense of the word.
They are also not to be trusted with the word “women”, let alone the fact. Particularly if you prefer not to have maggots swimming around in your gene pool.
A few basics beforehand:
Women are regular targets for mainstream marketing of all kinds. The sleek, smug, brainless suburban housewife of the 1950s was a creation of marketing. If that’s not an indictment, what is?
Women’s health is famously a nonsubject or, at most, a background issue. In most alleged mainstream jokes, women’s health is hilarious. You can “duh … hyuck” it up, guys, you comic geniuses, you.
All of a sudden, this abysmal level of cavedwelling ignorance has become interested in women’s health to the tune of billions of dollars?
And Santa drives a Ferrari.
I don’t think it’s possible to quantify the sheer size and scope of this market. The very genuine need for focused science and tech can’t be overstated, either. In a world where sanitary pads are still some sort of mystic revelation, the learning curve seems to have stalled.
Anyway – A bit of wary checking generated some useful results:
The most visible voice of Fem Tech is a site called Femtech World. The tech side of this site is very prominent and not written in crayon. If you have the slightest interest in women’s health, it’s very much on target. It’s actually quite interesting, wideranging stuff.
Slightly reassured by a decent site, but still not starryeyed, I moved on to another aspect of commerce and searched “Fem Tech fraud”. I did this mainly because it’s health. There are builtin privacy issues, and a huge market for data brokers. I was not at all surprised to find that these were current issues.
The AI summary on that link is the quick overview. The major issues are all rock bottom level. Many of them also relate to hype marketing, another La Brea tar pit of problems for consumers.
An interesting side note was that unpaid work in a US Federal Fem Tech program is a festering issue. Doesn’t quite sit with “gender equity”, does it? This level of utter failure to manage fundamentals was exactly what I was expecting on the “empowerment” side of the equation. Why would something so simple turn into a mess?
Some hours of wading through this stuff later, I don’t feel like I can make a solid judgment on Fem Tech as a thing. Innovation, yes. Exploitation must not be tolerated.
