Pink Guns
Someone actually did a poll on if women really liked pink guns. Turns out, not so much.
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October 15th, 2009 at 9:34 am
can’t fathom why anyone would think a pink gun would be suitable for hunting! … Actually, can’t think why you’ld want a pink gun for anything.
October 15th, 2009 at 9:52 am
I’m a guy and would like a pink AR. Go to competitions and if I won – how bad would the other people feel if they lost to a guy with a pink gun. If I shot an intruder and he survived, how awesome would it be to rub it in his face that he was shot with a pink gun.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:05 am
Pink guns aren’t good for females over 16. It’s a bit juvenile even then.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:41 am
Got my wife to a gun show recently. It turns out that she hates pink guns. They aren’t intimidating enough, according to her.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:50 am
My wife totally has Mall Ninja gun tastes. She likes them black with black furniture. I put some nice wood grips on my black 1911…she said they looked ugly.
October 15th, 2009 at 11:13 am
I guess we come to different conclusions here. If 15.4% (one in seven) of women prefer pink, that tells us there’s a niche. Some girls want to put more of a girly face on what’s seen as a masculine hobby, and others (such as my sister) just really like pink (my sister has a pink camera, pink computer, pink cookware, etc.).
Enough manufacturers seem to do a nice business selling 1911 and 10/22 wood in whatever shades; why would they skip pink instead of being yet another entry into Flat Dark Earth?
October 15th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
I always hated those pink-handled tool kits because they looked cheap and tacky, and it felt like I was being pandered to. I dislike pink guns for the same reason. Painting something pink to make it “girly” means you’re trying to reach a population that wasn’t interested to begin with.
October 15th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
“If 15.4% (one in seven) of women prefer pink, that tells us there’s a niche.”
Exactly so. If you could have 15% of the gun market, you’d be doing pretty damned well.
“Painting something pink to make it “girly” means you’re trying to reach a population that wasn’t interested to begin with.”
Same answer. That is the purpose of advertizing, and much of what happens in business. “Growing the pie” rather than merely trying take away some other guy’s piece of the pie, is good business.
My daughter looked at one of the many gun magazines I have around the house, spotted an ad for a pink revolver, and said, “Dad! I want one of these!” Ok she was eleven at the time, but business is business, and that’s the beauty of it– what one person finds unattractive or even downright repulsive, another person loves. I’d still be a single man if that weren’t the case.
When no one is buying pink guns, they’ll stop making them. Until then, you have more choices.
October 15th, 2009 at 10:05 pm
The ever-indulgent wife says she’d like a pink gun. Asked why:
“It’s my color”
“It’s pretty and cute. Attractive, like jewelery”.
“Blue is pretty too.”
In fact, she has a blue gun. Her Kel-Tec P32 was originally white but that was too hard to keep clean so we changed it to the ‘pretty blue’ grip.
Just another data point.
October 15th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
I keep thinking of Lionel’s pink trains for girls in the late 50’s. They were surprised that girls didn’t like them.
Hard to believe, but the pink/blue thing is historically recent. In the 1920’s, magazines with titles like “Woman’s World” were still debating which way it should go. Anytime over 100 years ago, pink was definitely a boy’s color. Well, you might ask, how come there wasn’t a layer of pink on that Trapdoor? I think that’s a reasonable question.
Fabric is “pinked.” Metal is “blued.” Coincidence?
October 16th, 2009 at 3:07 am
There was a time when Army dress uniforms in the last century in this country were “pinks and greens”.