The idea that in 2016 furniture can still be gendered (a “masculine” couch, a “feminine” chair) seems antiquated, an unpleasant flashback to the days when boys were obliged to like blue and girls, pink. Yet the concept of a bachelor pad—an entire apartment that is somehow imbued with manliness—remains.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-22/six-ways-to-move-your-apartment-past-the-bachelor-pad-stage