In between the general belief that Gyutos shorter than 240mm are for sissies and the hundreds of posts from guys joking about "hiding" their latest purchase from their SO, I'd just wish the OP good luck. Not a critic but just what it is.
I'd be all about having dozens of women around here posting vids where they basically show much superior skills/efficiency with a 165mm Santoku... and then basically implying that their husband is such a killjoy or a dork that he "does not get it" and that she's smuggling her latest knife in the household and he's basically unaware enough that he does not catch upon it. Which, if you ask me, has a much higher chance of being true than the opposite.
I suspect, if such a crowd was around, they wouldn't be so readily welcomed. A lot of "240mm or sissies" men around here would feel so small in their shorts they couldn't even stomach it.
Before that happens though, most women that will come around here will quickly be fed up with the underlying G.I. Joe's culture. When you "smuggle" a new knife in and she doesn't say a word, believe me, it's just because she's smart enough to know that you need your toys, and patient enough to put up with it. And if she ever gets fed up with the smuggling, it will be because your blatant immaturity (and thinking of her as stupid) will have become enough of an affront that she cannot put up with it anymore. Then you'll probably see that she's made a mental list, and dates, of all the smuggling.
When you look closely at what's underlying a major difference between men and women, it appears that women tend to nurture what they conquer, whereas men tend to see what they conquer as a simple obeying "object" soon not worth their attention anymore - unless they have the "MOST" of them, the "BEST" of them, the "FASTEST" of them, the "BIGGEST" of them. It's not always true but it's there. So when comparing knives and cars to shoes and bags, men are driven into their hobby as to show superiority, whereas women are driven into their hobby as to show discernment, taste, and awareness of tendencies. The next pair of shoes or the next bag is not "SUPERIOR", it's nurturing the form that they've already conquered.
If women were exactly like men, then as soon as they would give birth, MOST of them wouldn't care about the baby anymore - giving birth would be the summit conquered, and she'd move onto something else to conquer.
If men were exactly like women, then they'd buy 100 knives because one or another would look prettier and more adapted alongside cut celeries, mushrooms, or radishes.
Which is NOT saying reciprocation never happens. It is just saying that the underlying tendency is what it is, and therefore the distribution is what it is.
