I'd take any of those kitchens...especially if they included a man actually doing something in the kitchen - like cooking or cleaning!

Most the men I know are better cooks than the woman I know..

I do like the first kitchen.

I really like all of these kitchens - and I'm very much a woman. =) I've loved those sliding glass panels in Photo #4 since the first time I saw them - awesome!

I like these - I'm particularly intrigued by the dropped countertop for the cooking surface in the 3rd pic and the wood backsplash in pic #6...
...but nice as the first one is, I have an issue w/ it:

"Man Kitchens" don't have word art -
- and Definitely not in French!

I was pretty underwhelmed by the kitchen showing the woman emptying the dishwasher.
I'd be a lot more impressed if one pictured a man mopping the floor

I did my final thesis about kitchen for men, so nothing can shock me anymore...

These comments are a perfect illustration of why this whole Inside Man things probably isn't such a great idea. If this post was simply called "Minimal, Industrial-Inspired Kitchens" (or preferably something catchier), people would be commenting on the design rather than the woman unloading the dishwasher. (My husband does all the dishes in our house, so maybe that's why it didn't bother me!)

I usually find that I like rooms labeled as "masculine." I think eventually that label will fade.

Another vote here for retiring the whole gendered thing.

I love the sliding glass doors, and a commenter on the dwell link states that they were all custom-built, which I believe. But surely there's an accessible option out there that's comparable? What's a good source for similar hardware?

Am really digging those big porcelain sinks too.

I'm with the gender-neutral vote. I don't think that because a kitchen is functional and minimal makes it masculine per se - rather, these traits makes it utilitarian.

We just completely renovated our kitchen and every design choice between myself and my husband was based on two factors: the purpose it would serve and whether it would look good. The result was something very similar to the kitchens in this post, and it works for both of us, as man and woman.

I'm truly sick of the pink and blue childrens gear and now I have to see superficial, artificial gender themes on my favorite design site? Because we know all men love sports and football and beer, amirite?

Wasn't there already a post only a few days ago about masculine kitchens???

Manly, yes. But I like them too.

You know what, stainless steel appliances are tired and not particularly easy to clean or practical.

These pics make me want a mint refrigerator. At least it would have some character, rather than being self-congratulatorily bland and compulsively inoffensive.

Can all the gender police please go away? If the Inside Man section bothers you so much, simply stop reading any time you see the header and go pen your thesis on neo-feminism or your short story about an asexual utopian world.

All that aside, I'm a fan of the masculine-leaning design. Keep it coming. Haters, hate on.

could norcal just go away instead?

Kitchen porn! (ow-chekka-dow dow-chekka-dow-dow!)

I just see it as things within reach, surface area to organize prep, surface area to plate food. No hello kitty to knock over or picture of great grandma as a child to splatter with sauce.

It's just Functional vs. Decorated (semi-functional).

I'm with Laughing Tiger. From a queer chick perspective, I love these. They're clean, simple, sublimely dramatic, functional and uncluttered. I have no use for something on a counter or shelf if I don't use it regularly. Save the tchotchkes for a flea market emporium.

Another vote for keeping these cool designs but using descriptors that are based in reality instead of in stereotypes.

(Remember when adults used to tell you to use meaningful descriptors instead of just "cool" and "dumb"?)