It long past time we think hard about what is good for us at the pharmacy, sure there are a handful of life saving drugs, but then the other 95% of the store is pink tax and carcinogens.
Are you suggesting that pharmacies should only fill prescriptions and not sell any OTC medications, cosmetics, or other convenience products?
OTC medications can be handy, maybe convenience items are okay. It's sure convenient to be able to buy cigarettes and lotto tickets at the same store as your diabetes supplies etc. I guess the contradiction in health/vice items strokes my sense of decency the wrong way. Know your limit, play within it! As the slogan says...
Couldn't agree with you more. Why is there so much candy at the checkout of... the pharmacy????
"Pink tax" isn't real.
There's a picture at the top of the Wikipedia article for pink tax; depicting men's and women's products for the same price and the woman's version being significantly smaller, you're saying that doesn't exist? I'll go another step and say there's a phenomenon I've noticed where women enforce standards of beauty and cosmetic use, the trope of teenage girls shoplifting cosmetics, socially picking on eachother to enforce a norm the includes the use of various products. And then the marketing for acne products, skin clensers, foundations and fillers and so on and so forth. All targeted at the self esteem of the target audience. This extends into cosmetic surgery botox etc. I find the marketing and the bullying behavior around that industry quite distasteful. My user handle is meant to be an ironic jab at the cosmetic industry after all.
No one is preventing women from buying the products marketed at men if they are happy with the price/feature/branding. That they choose to spend more money than men in this category is not a tax any more than, say, power tools (or any other category with more male spending) being a "blue tax."