Two divisions of
greeting cards at the local
Factory Card Outlet. This brings to mind the
pressing questions:
- Why is there a need to
differentiate them?
- Aren't most
birthday cards fairly
neutral? What do you do with those?
- Would I give a
feminine card to my
flaming gay male friend, and a
masculine one to a
butch lesbian?
- Where are the
androgynous cards? What if I wanted to send
birthday felicitations to
David Bowie? Am I out of luck, or should I send him
one of each?
- Or does it refer to the
birthday itself? Maybe
summer ones are
masculine, or
arcade parties are, or
21st birthdays and
tea parties are feminine.
- Most obviously, why bother? If a
customer doesn't know her
brother wouldn't want a card with
sparkly pink teddy bear ballerinas or
lace hearts, or her
mother wouldn't want
footballs or
strippers, she probably can't read the stupid
sign ANYWAY. Are people really this
dumb? (
Don't answer that.)