The Lemon Fool

"Ergonomic Home Office Chair: Equipped with a curved backrest, this chair perfectly fits the curve of human body and provides maximum support for your waist. In addition, the soft padded armrest can greatly relax your hands and arms when you want to have a rest after typing for hours."



But hey, here they say it supports your back and neck too ... if you're Lilliputian!



https://www.diy.com/departments/costway-pu-leather-office-chair-modern-executive-chair-ergonomic-rocking-computer-desk-chair/6085650626408_BQ.prd?alt=true

Blatant sexist marketing crap. "Just what your body needs after all those hours in the typing pool, you poor thing. Listening to Jones from accounts again, and yadda yadda. Just sink into this luxurious chair and you'll soon be looking like Baby Spice in the picture, and the Lambrino will be on its way." Okay, okay, we get the message.

Body curves, indeed! Support for your waist - a body part that's only vaguely defined on most of us chaps. Sexist or what? And a well-padded seat for what appears (from the diagram) to be an unusually well-padded posterior. So where do we toned, muscled, angular, vibrant male persons fit into this marketing fantasy, eh? "Sorry Mr Smith, you're well qualified for the job but unfortunately you just won't fit the furniture."

Still, with a maximum load of 150 kg, some of us blokes will probably find a way. That's nearly twelve stone per buttock, after all.

The oddest thing, though, was that a quick perusal of office/Mastermind chairs showed that this particular chair's dimensions are by no means unusually small in comparison to the average. Nor with my own chair, which is an inch or two taller but actually narrower around the glutes.

Thanks for the laugh, anyway.

BJ

bungeejumper wrote:The oddest thing, though, was that a quick perusal of office/Mastermind chairs showed that this particular chair's dimensions are by no means unusually small in comparison to the average.

It's not the chair that's small!

The dimensions show the back as being 50cms, which would make the pictured woman's buttock to top of head distance about 55-60cms -- vs an average woman's 84 cms*.

As the average woman is 165 cms tall** that'd make the woman pictured 108-117cms tall -- 3ft 6in to 3ft 10in!

The topic title of "Little women?" was meant literally, not as a social attitudes comment!

* https://www.firstinarchitecture.co.uk/metric-data-02-average-dimensions-of-person-sitting/
** https://www.firstinarchitecture.co.uk/metric-data-01-average-dimensions-of-person-standing/

I'd say it looks like one of Kate's photoshops

I need this one