Guys and Dolls, as we're all sitting here over offering for the extremely desirable teal winter jacket and beanie, has anyone stopped to consider how extremely unfair it is?
So basically, just for entering (and not getting disqualified) the gingerbread competition as a boy, you're auto-rich, with your free consolation prize being valued at around 100k. The girl counterpart prize isn't even valued at half that. So, how in the world is this fair?
For one, obviously more people are going to desire the teal set, because it's not a gender neutral color. And honestly, I know many many many people, boys and girls alike, whom's favorite color is teal.
Ideally, they would be valued the same, and it would be easy to do a 1 for 1 swap.
This is not the case, as there are many more girls in the population than boys. So you're already giving girls the lesser-in-value item than you're giving the boys BEFORE you even factor in that teal is the overall more desirable color. Boys have the benefit either which way you look at it.
Right now, it's absolutely impossible to compete and trade for the teal set as SO many people are offering for them and SO few people are trading them. It's all extremely unfair.
And it's not even like girls even had the CHANCE for teal. Since clones, even the 'legal' boy clones were disqualified from the competition, we're pretty much stuck with purple.
A fair alternative would be to allow each person who is receiving the prize to trade it for the personal desired alternative from a staff member ONCE. But with such an asymmetrically balanced community, the staff need to realize that gender based prizes just will not work and will only cause problems.
What are everyone else's opinions about this? Should there be gender based prizes in the future?
So basically, just for entering (and not getting disqualified) the gingerbread competition as a boy, you're auto-rich, with your free consolation prize being valued at around 100k. The girl counterpart prize isn't even valued at half that. So, how in the world is this fair?
For one, obviously more people are going to desire the teal set, because it's not a gender neutral color. And honestly, I know many many many people, boys and girls alike, whom's favorite color is teal.
Ideally, they would be valued the same, and it would be easy to do a 1 for 1 swap.
This is not the case, as there are many more girls in the population than boys. So you're already giving girls the lesser-in-value item than you're giving the boys BEFORE you even factor in that teal is the overall more desirable color. Boys have the benefit either which way you look at it.
Right now, it's absolutely impossible to compete and trade for the teal set as SO many people are offering for them and SO few people are trading them. It's all extremely unfair.
And it's not even like girls even had the CHANCE for teal. Since clones, even the 'legal' boy clones were disqualified from the competition, we're pretty much stuck with purple.
A fair alternative would be to allow each person who is receiving the prize to trade it for the personal desired alternative from a staff member ONCE. But with such an asymmetrically balanced community, the staff need to realize that gender based prizes just will not work and will only cause problems.
What are everyone else's opinions about this? Should there be gender based prizes in the future?
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BUT that didn't happen and most likely won't. I mean I am happy to receive anything, but when there is one just like it out there with my favorite color, of course I'm going to want that one instead. Too bad everyone wants that one and there are less teal than purple out there. I'm also kind of shocked that the price for the set was really high to start out. I understand it's a rare item because no one can buy them, but really anyone could have entered and received it. You could have even made a small house just for the prize. Anyways, I hope there will be some solution to this....even if the teal set can be acquired by winning another contest, game, or host event so there will be a few more out there.
