As for the groom-specific content on the site, it’s all of the get-you-tux/deal-with-the-car/the-stripper-conundrum variety. I don’t see anything about budgeting or choosing a venue or how to write vows or buying favors. I do hope they add more in the future [and if they do, I'll definitely recommend it] but for now I’m still going to continue to suggest that grooms read The Engaged Groom or Groom 411 if they’re interested in getting more involved in the planning process.

Just like the nail polish for brides. Any bride can wear what ever polish they like and any non-bride can wear the same shades. They shouldn’t need specific lines for “the engaged”. And any groom can have their power tools in a normal department store, or choose the pastel colored silk linens instead.

I’m sorry to say that from my point of view the whole business has gotten way out of hand over there in the United States a long time ago. This discussion only underlines it in a sad, sad way. How can something so trivial as gifts cause such a riot that the men want their own site? “Don’t get left behind” ?? Wasn’t this about the two people getting married…

Enforcing gender stereotypes is just as stupid as fighting them only to prove a point. These kinds of websites will only promote bickering among the two extremities (as we’ve seen).

I glanced at the site and noticed I could put 8 out of the top 10 items on our registry without consulting the groom, but only because that’s me. I don’t want to fight for keeping girly things girly any more than putting an end to all gender oriented traditions.

I hate that all my feminist friends disapprove of my work in the kitchen, neglecting the fact I simply like doing it, regardless of traditions, upbringing or expectations. I won’t try to fix the car only because that would be radical, and I won’t mind Mr. Johanna getting excited about vacuum cleaners.

No matter how deep the war between the genders get, the marriage should be about TWO people and both their needs together, not dividing them even further apart.

This site will not get the grooms more interested in wedding planning. It will only give the pigs who love it a great way of demeaning the women who like doing the planning and the men who like their women and doing their share in the kitchen.

“The days of men being content with dishes, hand towels, and linens as wedding gifts are over.”

“Too often [couples] were registered for gifts that were strictly geared toward the kitchen. Where were the gifts that the groom could get excited about?”

According to the Man Registry, your fiance should not be excited about the things you registered for, because no real man would be content with hand towels and kitchen stuff. Besides, as others have pointed out, the registry itself isn’t really filling a need — you can register for gas grills, GPS devices, video games, and just about anything else at a lot of other places too.

I don’t think anyone is actually angry or upset or under the impression that The Man Registry is oppressing us. The sales pitch just makes us roll our eyes, and I think NtB summed it up well when she called the registry service “pretty pointless.”

A good website geared towards grooms, on the other hand, with tips and information, would definitely be a useful thing.

And no one even seems to be acknowleging the fact that it’s got articles for the groom. All along my engagement my fiance has been asking me ten million questions about what he pays for, what he plans, etc. And honesly, has anyone even looked at the website? The layout is classy. It’s not crass or super manly. It seems to me that if those guys wanted to start a sexist website, they would have designed it completely different.

And isn’t part of the feminist movement about being able to choose who you want to be as a person? I love being super girly and I’m proud of that. My fiance loves being a tough man but is sensitive. He’s excited about the things we’re registered for, and I could see him being just as excited about some of the things on that site. So whats wrong with having different outlets for different people in the world? Why does it always have to turn into an issue of repression? No one’s forcing anyone to use the website.

The one and only reason I can think of where a groom would ‘need’ a separate registry of his own is a situation where he’s got a hell of a lot bigger problems than the fact that he isn’t registered for just the right circular saw or gas grill.