More Premium gifts for male avatars
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Peter Stindberg
I'm a Premium member since forever, and I was delighted when semi-regular gifts got offered for Premium members. They often were from a home/garden or gadget category, which was perfectly fine. Later, when the Lab sought collaborations with popular designers and released designer branded gifts, they became more fashion and accessory oriented, but as such, still catered to all genders, with the collaboration partners usually offering 1 gift for female AND male avatars.
This is what I expected from the inaugural event at ACCESS, but I got dearly disappointed.
The number of participating designers was impressive, the number of gifts that could be used with male avatars was not. It was not even close to the roughly 40% in previous installments, but more in the range of 1-digit percentages.
As a paying Premium member for almost 2 decades, with those gifts by now included among the officially announced perks of a membership, I felt duped. Sure, I did not become Premium because of those gifts. And I would stay Premium even if those gifts would vanish. But if you say (paraphrased) 'Premium members get cool gifts every now and then', then you should make sure that ALL Premium members should get those gifts.
I'm not even expecting 50% (or 100%, like when the gifts were not primarily fashion items). SL is a rather feminime world when it comes to fashion, but I would have hoped for at least 30%, better 40%, of the gifts being usable for male avatars.
And yes, the irony of suddenly being the disadvantaged gender does not escape me. You're preaching to the choir here. I have my doubts though that this was an intentional message, and merely assume an oversight, or negligence.
So, please, more male fashion, or more gifts - like before - from gadget, landscaping, home and garden, vehicles, etc.
Thank you!
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Anthony Blakewell
More for males, definitely! Please
Clay Roussel
Unfortunately, a few extra percent of things you ultimately neither need nor use do not really make much of a difference. Male avatars are generally underserved when it comes to fashion and often end up far less well-equipped stylistically compared to female avatars.
If you are a male avatar who does not want an exaggerated bulge in your pants, does not constantly want to wear crop tops, and is not particularly into latex and leather outfits, you can feel pretty lost when looking for clothing options in this world.
I often go shopping specifically to find new outfits for clubs, events, or simply fun evenings with friends — and most of the time I end up coming back with empty shopping bags. A lot of the available male fashion in Second Life simply projects an image that I do not identify with. I fully respect that others enjoy that style, but personally it is just not for me.
More variety in male fashion would therefore be greatly appreciated — especially modern, creative, and stylish clothing instead of always repeating the same stereotypes.
Starr Ghost
Clay Roussel what are you looking for as I just opened a new mens clothing and would love to know what the males are looking for
Ricky Flow
I totally agree. We always get told "Women shop more." Well these are freebies for premium members, there should be more diversity. It's the same when I go to other events "Oh well, there's furniture and garden items." Yeah.. Like I wanna go through 15 pages of female stuff to find a kitchen table? No thanks.
Starr Ghost
Ricky Flow then check out my new store and tell me what you would like to see besides the same boring stuff
Garnet Psaltery
Please remember Wynx Tinies while you're at it. :o)
Rinaldo Debevec
In Second Life, as in Real Life, there is a vastly greater selection of clothing for women vs. the clothing sold to men. I know, it's a little unfair that women can get more and better freebies. We men should be chivalrous, and delight in the variety of attire worn by the ladies.
Portboy Resident
Definitely agree Peter. We also expected a balanced mix but literally left with maybe 2 items. I wonder what feedback would come if there were 10 male items and 2 female ones?
LYNNiAm Resident
I agree too. I'm a Dinkie avatar so the clothing is useless to me. If there were more all-inclusive gifts for all genders and avatars in general, it would be much appreciated. Thank you!
Sparkie Dragonash
I whole heartedly agree with Peter. When I was over I left pretty much empty handed as everything is geared to the female human avatar. I am a Dinkie and found nothing that I could use -- I got one item from a furniture set that I couldn't even modify to shrink so I could add it to my home.
I agree with him that there should be more diversity, not just female fashion. This is Second Life where imagination is our only limit but when female fashion and showing more and more skin is the only thing being showcased, so is our imagination and what Second Life can really produce. And that isn't much when all that is shown in any showcase even is like what was showcased in this group of gifts.
In my nearly two decades of being here, I have seen gifts go from fun and usable by all to basically human female more and more skin exposure items. Surely our imaginations can produce better and more items for everyone.
Thank you for considering this feedback from Peter.
Rockridge Constantine
I can definitely agree with all of this. This was a major oversight by LL. I am sharing this with all my social contacts. This needs to be voted up and prioritized for all promotions going forward!
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