{"id":200036,"date":"2007-06-07T20:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T01:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/07\/im-not-a-woman-but-i-find-this-a-bit-condescending\/"},"modified":"2007-06-07T20:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T01:52:00","slug":"im-not-a-woman-but-i-find-this-a-bit-condescending","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/06\/07\/im-not-a-woman-but-i-find-this-a-bit-condescending\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m not a Woman, but I find this a bit condescending."},"content":{"rendered":"

If this was being marketed to my 9 year old daughter, I’d be amused, but they are marketing it to adult professional women. WTF?<\/p>\n

SiliconValley.com – Hello Kitty dons new pink laptop to woo working women<\/a><\/p>\n

TOKYO (AP) – Japan’s cutest cat in glittering crystal decorates NEC Corp.’s new pink laptop in the Japanese electronics maker’s latest effort to woo working women.<\/p>\n

The La Vie G Hello Kitty model, available for $1,650 by Internet order only in Japan, went on sale Wednesday, and has gotten off to a good start, company spokesman Shinya Hashizume said Thursday, while declining to give numbers.<\/p>\n

‘PC users now tend to be men, but we’re hoping to attract women with this product,’ he said.<\/p>\n

The laptop, developed in collaboration with Sanrio Co., the Tokyo-based company behind Hello Kitty, uses 299 Swarovski crystals to depict four hearts and the bubbly feline head wearing a pink bow and crown.<\/p>\n

NEC is hoping to sell several hundred of the Hello Kitty laptops in the next few months, targeting the summertime when Japanese workers receive their twice-a-year bonuses, Hashizume said.”<\/p>\n

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It’s really pretty hideous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If this was being marketed to my 9 year old daughter, I’d be amused, but they are marketing it to adult professional women. WTF? SiliconValley.com – Hello Kitty dons new pink laptop to woo working women TOKYO (AP) – Japan’s cutest cat in glittering crystal decorates NEC Corp.’s new pink laptop in the Japanese electronics …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060,1160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-marketing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}