Are you stuck for a gender topic to journal about? How about this topic: here is a video link shared with our class by Wenny C (thank you!) about Abercrombie executive's marketing a padded bikini top for very young girls. It is easy to see what is wrong with this product. But my guess is that Abercrombie's owners are betting there are unconscious and persuasive complexities at work in the relationships between the young-insecure-girls and their parents-with-purchasing-power that makes this sexualized marketing potentially lucrative for the company owners. Or is this just an outrageous scheme to grab consumers attention? After much controversy, company owners have stopped marketing the padded swimsuit to preteens (news article, "Abercrombie padded bikini for preteens stirs up fuss")
So here is your (optional) journal prompt: get your journal and pen, clear your mind, tune into YOUR self, and then watch the following video. Pay close attention to YOUR feelings and thoughts as you watch the news cast. When you are done, write about YOUR whole experience of and reaction to this video.
Ready, set, go write ...