Women and consumption by Dohye Kim

Women's criticism in italy

2025-09-24 13:52:51 UTC

In Italy when a Woman spend money on clothes or beauty is seen as someone who looks for men attention and as shallow. While men are seen as taking care of themselves. Also women who spends money on dinning or travelling alone is said she is wasting money and should keep them for her future family while for men is as normal and travelling alone as a step to grow up.

2025-09-24 14:10:39 UTC

I think that in Italy (even in other countries) any repetitive purchase linked to objects defined as "feminine" or for women, is somewhat targeted by insults/jokes or reduced to something superficial.

An example can be something simple like concerts ticket and albums; spending too much on a boy band or on artist that is associated with a female audience is seen as a obsessive behavior while at the same time a man can spent a tons of money for a football game at the stadium and is seen as perfectly normal

In Germany, when women buy things like handbags, jewelry, or go to a spa, people sometimes see it as selfish or unnecessary. But when men spend money on cars or electronics, it is more often accepted as a normal hobby or a sign of success.

2025-09-25 01:27:37 UTC

2025-09-25 04:25:07 UTC

Here in Korea, there is a word, Kimchi woman. It means someone who luxuriously buy clothes and bags. Plus, there’s no male version of that term.

2025-09-25 04:42:16 UTC

In Korea, blaming women’s consumption is highly related to ‘term’ like Modern girl. In the middle of 1990, they’re called ‘된장녀‘. It blames women who over-spend on conspicuous luxuries. But you know, men also(or more) buy luxuries!

And, ‘빠순이’ is also an example of this. The word criticize idol-fans(women) who purchase albums and goods a lot to go fanmeeting. But men also consume things like collecting Game items, Figures and Jorden shoes etc.

2025-09-25 05:15:56 UTC

In Korea, women who do pilates have sometimes been targets of mockery. Because pilates has high class fee, women doing pilates are often stereotyped as engaging in a show-off activity, bluffing, or going mainly to take photos for social media. Like this, even women's self investment in exercise become a target of critism and mockery.

garçonne woman in France

2025-09-25 06:03:18 UTC

the french Modern Woman

meaning “boyish” in the feminine way

their consumption was criticised and they said they were the ones ruining the country and they were mocked for buying stuff from the western world