Comments on: Dell’s sex change goes horribly wrong

By: Femdom Humiliation Phone Sex

Femdom Humiliation Phone Sex — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 09:51:40 +0000

As a female technologist, I can tell you that many tech-oriented companies are screaming to hire technical women, but there just aren’t that many of us available. Far too many women go into reception or PR, and more go into management. The reasons for this are many and varied, but at least in the company I work with (as one of a dozen female employees), I can personally vouch for the fact that there are far fewer skilled women than men. This needs to change, obviously, but it isn’t Dell’s fault.

By: Me

Me — Thu, 21 May 2009 08:58:38 +0000

SayBlade: Its a JOKE for heaven’s sake!

By: NickP

NickP — Thu, 21 May 2009 08:47:05 +0000

Della is for girly women, of which there are a lot. I know, I’ve met some of them! Other women can use the main Dell site or wherever they want. I think Della is a good site for the girly women. The fact is that there are people like this who want this kind of thing. My ideal site would feature high-tech stuff, naked women, motorbikes, etc. Not all men are like me. There should be sites for different types of people and we should not scorn the other sites because they do not attract us. Dell made a mistake in not announcing that the Della site is for the more traditionally feminine type of woman and hoping that it would appeal to anyone with breasts – which is quite obviously impossible.

Apple’s site seems to be attractive to most types though…

By: Steve Cassidy

Steve Cassidy — Thu, 21 May 2009 08:42:40 +0000

For every bloke who watches Men and Motors, there’s a woman watching QVC. Neither are the highest pinnacle of achievement – but neither are short of an audience. Beware the intellectual’s game of starting every thought with the unspoken preface “if only everyone was as smart as me, then…”

I expect Dell watched the guy on Ebay who takes ex-corporate dell Laptops and runs their cases through his spraybooth. He couldn’t keep up with demand for pink laptops.

By: SayBlade

SayBlade — Tue, 19 May 2009 21:41:19 +0000

“It seems a number of women took exception to Dell?s 1950s-tinted view of their lifestyle and (after they?d finished the hoovering and ironing their husbands? shirts) fired off angry emails to Dell HQ…” Oh COME ON! Why do you continue the stupid stereotype????????

By: get over it

get over it — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:22:13 +0000

Trying to adequately target an ad to a group as large and as vague as ‘women’ is impossible. Women are not a homogeneous group with the same likes and needs. Neither are all ‘men’ the same. When companies try to pull something like this off, it fails every time. It is impossible. Just like how not every man finds Maxim magazine applicable to their lives, not all women care about the same stuff. Even the old reliables like child care and breast feeding miss the mark with many many women.

By: Barry Collins

Barry Collins — Tue, 19 May 2009 08:22:12 +0000

a male – the line about the site editor being a man was a joke. I’m sure it’s not about to win me the Perrier Award, but I think most people will acknowledge that it was written in jest.

Bunny – I find it a little difficult to swallow lectures on “constructive criticism” from someone who bandies about the term “Spastic” as a form of abuse.

By: Bunny

Bunny — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:51:57 +0000

a male is completely correct. Hypocritical.

When I read about Dells gaff it made me cringe, but instead of going spastic over their misguided attitude, maybe some constructive criticism will help them realize what women really want.

Though, going by the mobile phone applications “is he a match for me?” and “what will my babies sex/name be?” I suspect that there is no one homogeneous woman’s view on this. I really suspect that some women will love what Dell was offering, while some women would rather know how to test for a dead laptop motherboard.

In fact the women who are angry over this and who are demanding a more techie Della site are actually being hypocrites. They are behaving just like Dell. Assuming that ALL women want what they want, just like Dell assumed all women want girly girl content/tools.

By: a male

a male — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:19:27 +0000

“They listened? Bang goes our theory the site editor was a man. ”
You complain about their sexist bigotry and then do it yourself? Hippocrites.

By: Rick

Rick — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:48:14 +0000

Who wants a Dell anyway? If you take crap and paint it pretty colors, it’s still crap.