I had a maternity nurse tell me about how she'd hear family in the delivery room react to a newborn boy crying by saying stuff like he had strong lungs and react to a newborn girl crying by saying "she's going to be a bitch". I couldn't stop thinking about it for days. It still haunts me.

I think this is why most little girls go through that “I hate pink and girl stuff” phase whether it’s true or not, cause it’s shoved down our throats for so long that we put our feet down and stop

another notable fact: with gendered products, the “female alternative” is oftentimes for expensive than the men’s.

My mom actually bought gendered hammers and screwdrivers because she worked construction, and people kept stealing them they stopped a little while, but the problem was they were REALLY nice, and dudes stole them anyway.

Kurtis there’s actually a massive difference between boy products and girl products that I’m surprised you didn’t catch. The woman products always cost more for the same thing!

Dude my parents bought me a girl bible when I was a teenager. I remember every second page being like "your virginity is the most important thing about you! If you touch a boy you are worthless!" Meanwhile my brother's bible was just "here are the bible characters with the highest kill count!" Needless to say I'm no longer part of the church.

If I ever have a child, I’m throwing a “gender reveal” party and make the reveal color purple just to confuse everyone.

Had some dude come into my store lookin for hair dye, and refused to get what was on the shelf cuz it had women on the packaging

My favorite gendered item I've ever found in the wild was a sparkly pepper spray at staples labeled "so cute, it hurts!"

They should release the "healthy way of dealing with feelings and emotions FOR MEN" 🤯

I was once given a bible for girls when i was younger. Grew up to be a transman athiest whos studying sociology 😂

My favorite quote is from my sociolinguistics prof who started our course by saying "Gender is a made up construct and you'll just have to accept that and move on". He was great, and great at teaching too. I grew up very conservative christian and the gender norms that were pushed on me as a closeted person made me so miserable up until 23 when I moved out. The only salvation I had was my dad who, after divorcing my mom, always let me wear and play with whatever toys I had. He'd let me join him in the garage and help with his car if I wanted to, but would also help me play with my barbie house if I wanted to play with that. He's still very traditional, but he's always tried his best to never force me to be more feminine than I want to be, and since I came out he's grown so much because I'm his child, whereas my mom won't ever accept it nor be on my side in confrontations with my extreme relatives (if that ever were to happen). I'm breaking the stereotype of lgbtq people not having a supportive dad, and I love that for me.

Came back to this video just to warn everyone: I am a woman and I used men's deodorant once and first my armpits melted because it was too powerful and manly for my dainty skin and then I turned into a military battle tank. I lost my job, my life is ruined, my family has rejected me. Don't make the same mistake.

I’m a girl and I’ll never forget the time my mom visited me and asked why I used Aquafresh toothpaste, because “that’s a boy’s brand of toothpaste.” I was dying laughing trying to figure out her reasoning for gendering toothpaste.

"It not Manly, it's Childish!" As a father, I absolutely agree.

I’m a man and I use floral deodorant just because of how weird the masculine ones smell

My mom worked in a machine shop and she bought pink tools. Anything that wasn't already pink she colored or put pink tape over. Worked like a charm to keep her tools from being stolen cause none of the men would use anything with pink on it lmao

The fact that women have been using "war paint" as a euphemism for makeup for years but suddenly men claim it's a brand new perspective on makeup...

The "to risk their life in the admirable fight for crude oil" line took me all the way out. The screams i scrumpt.

I also hate when sports are gendered. There are sports for girls and boys, but as a teenage girl sometimes when I say “Oh yea I play soccer too!” to someone they’re like “Soccer’s for men.” (real story btw :) ). It’s tiring to hear people say softball is easier than baseball, yes some parts are, but some parts aren’t THEY ARE DIFFERENT SPORTS! I’m just sick of hearing it because if women weren’t allowed to play it, why’d they make sports for women. Sorry for the vent, that’s just all my opinion.

Craziest gendered thing I’ve come across had to have been the Dr Pepper ‘for men’. They called it ‘Dr Pepper 10’ and the announcement post for it was like ‘24 bold flavors- only 10 MANLY calories’ which is just insane for a soda btw. I remember one day I accidentally drank some of it and didn’t realize this Dr Pepper was for MEN ONLY- but instead of exploding ( as all women do when taking men’s products instead of women’s), nothing happened. Anyways that’s how I found out I was trans.

"Gender? I hardly know... them?" Is genuinely the only funny joke I've ever heard in that format. Good job, Kurtis.

When I went off to college, a family friend got me a tool set ~for her~. Bright pink plastic everywhere. And let me tell you--the hammer was the only thing in there that wasn't a complete piece of crap. The grip on the pliers handles twists and slides with the slightest pressure, the screwdriver head warped after assembling a few bookshelves, and the utility knife casing was so flimsy I didn't trust it to hold together. It's like they made it to sit on a shelf and never be used.

i was talking to my aunt once who told me that a women at her church got a "study bible for woman" that was approved by her pastor. turns out it was A.I generated and just literaly got most of the scripture wrong

Most girls and I included have gone through the phase of hating the colour pink because it was so pushed on me to like it before I could even like colours

Boy Bible: “Noah’s arc was gross! 🤢 💩” Girl Bible: “Imagine living on Noah’s arc with all the cute wittle animals 🥹😍”

The craziest gendered product I've ever seen was a calculator for women, I was like what the💀(ended up buying it cuz it was pink)

Okay as someone who used to do competition shooting which requires ear and eye protection, the women’s earplug thing is kinda legit if you’re a woman with smaller ears like me. The regular earplugs that they had at the shooting range still worked fine but I can understand how they would get uncomfortable for someone with smaller ears than mine

as a girl, thank you for gendering this video just for us kurtis

i actually did get my dad a pink shirt last christmas and he said “it looks great on me but i have to return it, my coworkers will bully me.” i convinced him to wear it to work just once, and you know what? nobody said a THING. he didn’t even get a funny look. he was totally fucking floored. it’s almost like all of these rules about gender are completely arbitrary and all they do is keep people from realizing their full potential!

See I like the men’s beauty products because of the silly names. I don’t wanna smell like lilacs I wanna smell like Bearglove or Nightpanther. It’s makes hygiene feel more fun.

i’m laughing so fucking hard and not even bc of the video but bc at 12:12 when it played the eagle sound my birds started chirping thinking it was another bird in the room

The worst gendered product I've come in contact with is for sure "Pinky Gloves". It was a product on German Shark Tank and essentially a pink one-time-use plastic glove to remove a tampon with (of course, it was pink), so women wouldn't have to touch their 'gross' hygiene products and (of course more importantly) so men didn't have to see a tampon in the bathroom bin. The male sharks were ecstatic and called it revolutionary, but after the episode aired, the company had to backtrack and apologise pretty quickly. So yeah, women apparently need pink gloves in order not to touch their own bodies or make men feel uncomfortable. Hooray!

The girl hammer is actually better than a regular hammer- bright pink is highly visible, so you're less likely to lose your tool on a busy worksite!

That "Gender? I hardly know...........them...?" Got a bigger giggle out of me than it should have. Reminded me of a joke a coworker told me years ago: "Transgender? I hardly know him!"

I always remember my son, being about 3 yrs old, came upon my mom painting her nails. He got really excited and wanted his done. She said no dear, this is only for girls. 30 yrs later i still remember his crestfallen, hurt look. My mom was a lovely woman and i loved her dearly. She was just a product of her time. The world is so crazy. But i think its getting better. The kids today are forcing that. The kids are alright.

I’ve been a girl who always loved pink and hyper-feminine things, but some products made for women, especially hygiene, do the opposite of help clean. The one’s that “relieves feminine odor” actually harm women’s ph balance and possibly make the problem worse.

I think it's important to note that in the majority of these cases, the "women's" products are astronomically more expensive than the men's for absolutely no reason other than being pink.

“I’ve seen poop on the ceiling before” “HOW👹”

You are the chillest person I’ve ever “‘Oh but they’re gonna start using the men’s bathroom!’ You think they want to!!!?!?!” Also “I think people should be able to identify how ever they want” Thank you!

I had a girl bible when I was little and I remembered reading it and finding a chapter on how to be a good wife and a lot of it was like “your husband knows everything, if he hurts you, you deserved it” like holy guacamole dude, that messed me up

As a girl, I can confirm that we never poop. Ever. It’s actually kind of concerning.

I work at Lowes, and we used to sell Duke Cannon products which are notorious for selling things for "manly men". I shit you not, there was a shampoo with the smell of "naval diplomacy" 😂

14:44 my aunt got me these as like a joke cause i’m a trans male lmaooo

Calling a woman a "b*tch" implies she's too aggressive, calling a man a "b*tch" implies he's not aggressive enough. That's stupid.

Yes!! I’m a girl!!!! Finally- a KZfaq video JUST for Me!!!! Thank you Kurtis!!

“For women” products remind me of those plastic tools you give little kids so they can feel like they’re participating

As a person who has history with laxative abuse, especially with dulcolax, I can confirm that when the tablets start to kick in it is probably the most painful thing I have ever experienced. Also got me admitted to hospital a few times

My son passed away in the NICU at 11 days old last year and the nurses apologized to me because the only resting gown available had pastel rainbow hearts and they were out of the ones with baseballs for "boys".... I had picked out so many rainbow things for him and zero sports things, and I would have picked the rainbow hearts anyway if I'd been given a choice. It's so weird to say rainbows are for girls and to even apologize for it. 🤔

I’m not embarrassed to say that everything Kurtis said to make fun of motor oil shampoo just made me want it more. Pretending I’m a car getting an oil change while taking a shower sounds like the highlight of my day.

And here my dad using 'cutee' soap with floral scents. And wearing diffrent pink shirts ( we call it 'fifty shades of pink')

10:06 I’m pretty sure dulcolax isn’t actually a stool softener, but instead a stimulant laxative that basically makes your intestines forcibly contract to push the stool out, which actually can be quite painful (though very effective) Kurtis wasn’t too far off with that skit of his.

my problem isn’t that it’s pink, it’s that the pink one is like twice the price and sometimes doesnt even work as well 😭

i’ll never forget my mom buying pens for women so the guys she worked with would stop stealing her pens. they wouldn’t touch the pink 😭

Never flush your wipes, down the toilet! Even if they say they are flushable! Companies can put whatever they want regardless of the actual effects it has on our cities infrastructures. Never flush “flushable wipes!”

I feel like the real problem is the underlying misogyny and gender roles associated with gendered products, not gendered products themselves. It's perfectly fine to make products feminine and make other products masculine. Some people simply prefer one or the other The problem arises when you advertise them to specific genders and judge people for using other products.

Petsmart sells gendered birthday cakes for dogs, but while the boxes are pink and blue and say "for girl dogs" and "for boy dogs," the cakes inside are 100% identical.

I kinda want the girly ouija board to see if my house has spirits of girlbosses and slay queens.

HELP I LITERALLY HAD A GIRLS VERSION OF THE BIBLE AND MY BROTHERS HAD THAT EXACT BOYS VERSION. GUESS WHAT, I PRACTICE WITCHCRAFT NOW AND IM A LESBIAN

Dont forget about the "girl lego" that is stupid. Growing up I had cabbage patch dolls, hotwheels, my little pony, robotics, etc. I raised my kids the same, and when my son was two he asked for a baby doll so I got him one. He didn't know that dolls are supposedly for girls, he just wanted a baby to care for like his older sister.

'Girls can't poop' can confirm. Trans FTM here. Never pooped as a little kid. Questioned my gender in middle school and started farting. Came out as trans in high school and took my first shit. It was wild.

I had a “god for girls” booklet when I was a younger child and I used to read it when I was 10 before being like “this kind of sucks I’d rather be cool” and then became an “I’m not like other girls” girl because I kept getting the “for girls” stuff and it felt like I was being put in a box. I’ve since got over that phase of my life but the “for girls” to “not like other girls” pipeline is so strong.

When I went to catholic school, they had GENDERER VEGGIETALES BOOKS. I hated that damned show but I always cracked up at that.

I fell for War Paint. Spent a small fortune on it after seeing it on Dragons’ Den (UK Shark Tank). Female makeups often contain shimmer elements that I wanted to avoid at all costs. I also don’t want to look like I’m wearing makeup and this is designed in that way.

It's also depressing that products marketed towards women are more expensive. The "women's" laxative was a dollar more expensive than the "mens" laxative.

as a sephora worker, the amount of times I get male customers that come in asking if we have ‘mens skincare’ products as if we all dont have skin concerns

i love that cutaway after he says “i was watching… spongbob.” it makes no sense and its so funny

I nearly forgot this but my history teacher told us dresses were also made for men as well same for heels 13:26

As a trans man when I started using shampoo and bodywash for men I felt like a dude but then realised how shi**y the products are. I'm keeping my jasmine bodywash, bros.

as a women i hate the gendered products when it’s unnecessary. one thing that he left out is the pink tax and that often times women’s products are more expensive just because they are pink. that is something important i encourage everybody to learn about. great video tho

24:00 The Bible actually never said anything about being gay. “Man shall no sleep with man” was a mistranslation of “man shall no sleep with boy” AKA don’t have sex with kids.

Worst thing Ive seen was Girls taser, pepper spray, bear claws, pocket knives, overall self defense protection stuff but pink and sparkly and doesn’t work as well as the normal ones

I think there should be a SUPER MANLY TESTOSTERONE ARMY CAMO version of every product. Napkins, broccolli, teddy bears, everything

I wrote an essay on gendered products for one of my class assignments a few months ago and a lot of the products targeted towards women are also more expensive than those targeted towards men and it s honestly so frustrating

Ngl the motoroil shampoo design is so cool that i would unironicly use it

Girl binoculars... in case you want to look at far away make-up! 😂😂😂 so good!

i had a girls bible as a kid and i hated it. it was weird, objectified women, and told girls how to behave. it said stuff talking about women like “her thighs were lined with lilies” and told me to pretty much not show my feelings or emotions because saying my opinion was disobedient and would disappoint god. it also tried to hide that sex was a real thing but saying only boys and girls can be together at the same time💀

I remember someone saying "great idea: when babies are born we should label them by color based off their genitals" sarcastically and someone was like "ew wtf" out of complete lack of self awareness and I will think about that forever

me when I have a kid: doctor: it's a girl!!! me: no it isn't *kick flips the doctor into a bowl of oatmeal*

I had a version of the Bible as a kid meant for girls and it had whole sections on “being modest” but also “smiling more” and “obeying your parents in a godly way”

As a woman who worked as a mechanic for years it was one of the most annoying things in the world to see tools marketed towards women that were actually more expensive because they were pink and sometimes they weren't even high quality. Since I was the only woman mechanic in most of the shops that I ever worked in, the only real advantage to having pink tools in the shop would be that everyone would know who the tool belonged to. Of course, I could accomplish this task by just carving my name in my tools or painting them whatever the hell color I wanted. When I got my big toolbox for the shop, all the men expected me to get a pink one but my favorite color was orange so I got the biggest and brightest orange toolbox that I could find. Tools are for all genders.

i had those girly girl binoculus and my little brother had the American one (despite being australian)

the rupaul irish spring song, and the barbie earplugs bit, both had me cracking up so much. great video

He didn't even cover the "Pink Tax," which I highly suggest looking up! As a non-denominational Christian, there's a huge toxic pressure put on girls in purity culture as well. Boys are encouraged to start families and all I was ever told as a girl was that I was going to marry a man and have kids...that's it. Makeup was also worn by men first as well! Thx for the accurate vid Kurtis ❤

"have you seen men's bathroom, saw poop on the ceiling" truer words have never been spoken, Kurtis saw some _real shit_

My parents tried to give me balance with overalls and little dresses as a kid. I remember getting a Barbie and taking her on adventures in a little remote control jeep. I honestly learned you could look cute as heck and go on adventures like boys did (like in pretend play). I also later despised pink and dresses but dressed more practical for if I wanted to climb a tree or play during recess.

The whole colors assigned to gender thing is so wild because we have no real source for why exactly they were changed or existed in the first place! The original pink for boys blue for girls source seems to be Dutch, but there are conflicting sources. And the switch happened sometime around the 1930s is, but no real place we can point to as to why

The gender joke at the beginning was peak comedy and I don’t think anything can ever top it

It’s not even restricted to humans. I’ll never forget my mom getting uncomfortable with me getting a pink harness… for my male cat. She bought a camo harness for me to use instead.

There’s literally baby cloths that say the most sexualized things on them because of the baby’s gender and it’s honestly so astonishing to me that people actually think that is cute Also blue was for girls and pink was for boys back in the day and little boys would wear dresses too and heals were originally made for rich men

The rupaul lyric joke is severely underrated

I like how the men’s laundry detergent sheets have to say they’re “manlier” instead of admitting they’re being eco friendly

My parents had it figured out, they just had their 3 kids pick a color one time and that was our color forever. It eliminated a lot of fights, it gave us a sense of individuality, it saved my parents money to be able to just buy all of us the same items in different colors, it was a gender neutral way of color coding their kids, and it helped them keep track of us and our stuff anywhere we went. Lost your kids in a snowstorm? Just look for the yellow, pink and blue scarves and you've found them.

I was eating an orange and the juice hit this video for me, fate brought me here and so did my orange

this is the first video i’ve watched your channel and your humor is unmatched. i laughed the whole time and its 8am 😂

i remember seeing those weird newborn onesies for girls that would say like “I’m not allowed to date…ever.” like bruh your child is 2 weeks old 😭

As a Sephora employee my hope dies every time someone comes in asking for “skin care for men”

so glad someone brought this style of marketing up, was the reason why i had childhood trauma gender wise especially since im not into dangerous stuff nor into sports, cars, and wondered before i got the internet "was i alone on this earth?" then found reddit and felt so heard with hundreds of people saying similar opinions and likes/dislikes, so in a way the internet at one point cured my depression! problem is stuff for boys, becomes stuff for men which makes my gender sound more aggressive or tough which im not in the slightest aside from building thick skin but thats ok. id rather be an approachable person open to any idea than be a person seeking self approval of their fragile masculinity so they surround themselves with useless more expensive stuff. its like putting a smiley face on a can of soda, its still the same soda but with an emotion on it meaning it "must make you happy!" all this gender stuff is just a placebo effect basically, still have no idea how companies/society accepts this behavior for so long. glad to be in the 2020's and not the 1920's its nice to see something so black and white fizzle out although its fizzling slower than id hope, but any tough guys reading this comment, try on some skinny jeans, play some joji, comb your hair, have a fruity drink and realize nothing has changed about you! may feel strange at first but its because like many guys out there you've restricted and limited yourself so you cant ever enjoy all of what life has to offer.

My mans just unironically said “so 2000 and late”, and I’m CRYING💀💀💀

I remember when I was a kid at barns and noble there were gendered BIBLES, like one said “the Bible for knights” and was blue with a sword on it, and one said “the Bible for princesses”with a pink crown on top. I remember even my 8 year-old self so confused how the literal BIBLE needed gendering for children, and why I couldn’t be a knight