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Laws to permit the colour "blaze pink" for hunters have been proposed in five states in the US. How did this become a legislative trend?
As the legislative session drew to a close last week at the Minnesota state capitol, a curious piece of legislation became the focus of ire for lawmakers - a bill to make something called "blaze pink" legal for hunters to wear.
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Last spring, Wisconsin Representative Nick Milroy had the idea that "blaze pink" might also be an acceptable safety colour as well as a way to get some new blood into the sport.He even got a textile scientist at a local university to investigate whether there were any safety concerns.
"The fastest growing segment in new recruits into hunting are females, and that's one of the big reasons that companies have been marketing things like pink camouflage, pink guns, pink knives," he says.
Participation in hunting in the US has been on the decline for decades, and the sport is overwhelmingly dominated by men.
Safety Orange to become Safety Pink?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 30 2016, @10:02AM
A good number of luxury brands (BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Audi, and Porsche) are doing away with the oil dipstick. No way to manually check the oil. As I've heard it described, no one (in that price segment at least) checks their own oil anyway.
Is this a triumph of engineering? Capitulating to market forces? Or perhaps fashion over function?
Is it feminine?
Give it another 80 years these same ladies will be celebrated as "innovating" the low maintenance car paradigm ahead of industry leaders.
And even then, if the current zeitgeist holds, it will still be written as sexist that they weren't given proper recognition in their own time.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Tuesday May 31 2016, @05:35AM
I believe they will also drive the new-car market, as they will need a new car about every three years, and their tow-in will be worth about zero.
Just drive it 'till it locks up. No need to smog it. Once it begins burning oil, it has about four quarts to go, followed by engine seizure.
At that point, simply buy another.
Goes against everything in me, but seeing how everything else in my life has become so ephemeral, oh well...
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]