Switters wrote:

You're not wrong... I was in a shop the other day and the guy was selling
to this teenage girl who's mother was paying the bills. My misses was
trying on clothes, so I hung around and listened to the guy work. He
asked her questions about her level and what type of riding she wanted to
do, and picked out 2 boards that he thought would suit her, and would grow
with her. She didn't like the graphics on either, and picked out
something completely different.

And for the majority of teenage girls who will spend their entire
snowboarding career skidding down on their heelside edge, it just
doesn't matter.

Neil