When I lived alone in the big city I thought about getting a gun. (As well as many trips to the shooting range, so I'd know what I was doing)
I'd want a gun that was shiny and black, so the guy who tried to hurt me wouldn't think I was messing around. They just look silly to me. Like pink tool kits.

Oh. My. God.

That looks like it fell out of the worst part of the 80’s.

Is it just me, or is it a bit patronizing when some “traditionally male� product is marketed for women and it winds up looking rather garish and over-the-top feminine?

Besides that, the furry grip would soak up spilled gun cleaner and oil. So, not have only have they designed a gun that looks—um, questionable—it’s also an impractical design.

Now that I think of it, the impractical design implies the assumption that the gun won’t be used that much—that it’s “just for show.� In other words, the owner of the gun isn’t actually going to spend time on a target range actually firing the gun, so why should it be designed in a way that facilitates cleaning the gun?

Sexist buttheads.

In the US, handguns have achieved almost full market penetration among adult white males, so gun manufacturers are scrambling to market them to other groups. They try to get teenagers hooked on guns, too, and they've been trying for years to create demand among women for normal-looking pistols. Marketing a gun with a leopard-spotted grip is just a final act of desperation.

I saw that thing, and I didn't think "feminine" so much as I thought "Terantino"

Maybe it was just me but after reading the biography for Antonio Riello on the final page of the linked article it leads one to believe that these are merely to show off something wrong with social standings. They're not meant for public consumption, they're works of art expressing what the artist feels when it comes to guns and something feminine.

Classically all weapons have masculine undertones, not feminine. Traditionally it's the men that go out to hunt and wage war, not women. This is why certain items are generally created and marketed towards men over women. You don't see many tools that are specifically for women out there do you?

While everything should be equal, I don't feel that using art, even created by a man, to be something to get all huffed about.

You don't see many tools that are specifically for women out there do you?

Every tool that involves sewing or cooking or washing is marketed mostly to women.

This is what happens when Barbie starts packin'.

I'm a straight male, and think the leopard-print-and-ivory hunting rifle was kinda cool.

Impractical, but cool.

What aspects of city-making get left out in the gaps between the professions and who is responsible? Often the physical spaces in between – the public realm. It is simply undervalued. And secondly – since a city is made up of both hard and soft infrastructures – social, cultural, psychological and sometimes even economic domains get overlooked.

Professionals can become entrenched in silos. Being a professional shapes a person’s self-identity and, allied to the ‘natural’ tendency to act tribally, are the traditional views of more hierarchically based management. Knowledge and specialism silos can ossify without proper communication to outside learning and development communities as there is little discussion and challenge of assumptions. Such silos see the world from their own point of view.

It becomes difficult to make bigger-picture strategies. Criticizing silos does not mean we should all know a little about many things without deep knowledge of a particular subject. Instead it implies that more important, higher-order forms of thinking, understanding, knowledge, interpretation and behaving exist that should shape how the silo works. This will make silos more porous and permeable and give them the lifeblood they need to develop and expand.