In my prior unnecessarily gendered product posts, I’ve focused on products targeted to men. This time around, I want to focus on a product marketed to women: a lace safety vest. Many jobs require workers to wear a reflective vest for safety. People may also own them to make themselves visible to traffic. I know […]
I write this just shy of 1 week after the 2024 presidential election won by Donald Trump. I was upset by Trump’s election as were many, although definitely not all, of my students. I want to use this post to reflect on what I did in connection to my classes last week and think about […]
I get it – most students don’t like group work. I didn’t really like group work when I was a student either. After all, work is often not divided evenly. Everyone in the group may not have the same goals for the project or class. It can be hard to know who brings what skills […]
A few months ago, I talked about gendered marketing of lip balm. Today, I’m back with another gendered product that is also reflective of the militarized culture in the US: Tactical Baby Gear. Something went seriously awry with YouTube’s ad algorithm as my husband was served the ad below for “Tactical Baby Gear” – neither […]
If you’re anything like me, you collect books but rarely have time to read them. I always have the best of intentions, but with a heavy teaching load and a need to read certain things for my research of book writing, lots of books I want to read collect dust as I tend to read […]
Recently, my husband came home from a trip to Lowes with an unexpected purchase. Impulse buys in Lowes aren’t unheard of in our home, but I certainly wasn’t expecting his impulse buy to be lip balm – specifically Duke Cannon Offensively Large Lip Balm. He had to show it to me since it was being […]
