You raise an interesting point with the "girlie colours", alwil. I wonder how many women mow lawns? I'm pretty sure their tastes get very little consideration from the mower marketers. With cars, the manufacturers went through a period of ignoring women completely, then they decided that women were influencing the choice of colour but not of car, and then relatively recently they got to the point of recognising that women sometimes choose, buy and use cars. I suspect the mower designers are at a very early stage in this process of mental development.