Where did you post the ad?

I totally agree! Women want special cars, not options.

No, I totally agree! Women need special cars in a special pink, because that's just what naturally appeals to us! It is the OPPOSITE of sexist to assume that women need a car specially designed for us. We don't need options — we need a car designed for us based on what your daughter goes for in the toy store. :)

Yeah, the root cause of this is clearly celebrities who like pink. It's totally not symptomatic of sexism in the car industry and Japan. Tooootally rooted in those bitches having pink cars.

Sure can, tin man.

DO IT. If you love it and it makes you feel cute, go wild!

Came here to make that exact point — and found that you'd beat me to it. It's like they say — meet one asshole in a day, sucks that you ran into an asshole. Meet two assholes in a day, bad luck. If everybody you meet is an asshole? You might be the problem.

Now THIS is the strangeness I was looking for when I clicked on this article.

Don't be sorry. :) It's no trouble!

I had no idea — thank you for the info/source! :)

Well reasoned! I don't have kids of my own/haven't worked with diaper-aged children, so while I could think of the obvious problems this post was very informative. Thanks!

Making clearer than ever that this is about control, not "life".

Ah, I totally missed that! Apologies. Either way, I agree with you — I just remember living in so many shitholes with even shittier amenities that my first thought was the lack of washer/dryer.

Really? I knew that cloth diapers can add to labor/cost (trips to laundromat; all those quarters), but I had no idea that (some? many?) daycare centers won't accept children who use cloth diapers. Do you know the reasoning?

I agree that cloth diapers are much better for the environment/wallet, but many low income parents don't have access to their own washer and dryer — using cloth diapers would add in so much more labor (trips to the laundromat, waiting there so people don't move/steal their laundry) and cost (quarters! so many quarters…

Are you serious? This reasoning is ridiculous. Sure, these welfare parents are going to sell their babies diapers instead of, y'know, changing them and easing misery for both they and their children?

It's ridiculous that it took this long and this much umbrage for them to work out an easy (if temporary) solution that's been suggested many times over. Glad to hear it, though.