New breed of consumers?

Linucs writes "From the Guardian: "'Young women now drive the decisions on what to buy and, unlike older women, it is she, and not her boyfriend or husband, who decides how much to spend,' said Young." That looks fine, as long as she spends her own money... "But Joanna is playing hard to get. She may be the darling of the corporations, but, despite her education and strong opinions, she has left the politicians confounded by her reluctance to vote." - And what will happen to the dumb, uneducated men? "'Young women are the great untapped power in today's society: it is not an exaggeration to say future democracy relies on engaging their voices and their votes in a way we have so far failed to do,'" - Big idea: let's place some voting booths inside Body Shop. "'The feminisation of the high street has been so pronounced in the last five years that men are being chased away: your average heterosexual man feels completely out of place on the high street now,' said Experian's Patrick Gray. 'It is only "feminised men", or metrosexual man, who dares to face it. Most men prefer the internet to real-life shops now.'" - I surely feel out of place while reading The Guardian..."

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