Plus, they give children BIGGER things when they’re smaller because they’re easier to grip (look at kindergarten crayons, which are about 5 times as big as regular ones). I’m sure that’s a dexterity thing rather than a size one, but it clearly shows that size isn’t a major issue. Those kindergarten crayons are way bigger around than your average pen, and three year olds can use them.

Actually, the pop up is not at all clear about the gender of who will be buying and using the lantern.

The only thing that the pop up is certain about is that it’s not like your dad’s lantern and that whoever buys it is going to pass it on to their sons, for some unstated, odd reason.

Wut?

Describing characteristics is all well and good, but sometimes that’s a bunch of variables that people have a hard time picturing. Describing a typical woman’s body would mean giving measurements and descriptors of several different telltale body parts, and the end result might be hard for people to imagine all at once. But say “woman” and people can picture the shape immediately. The problem isn’t so much applying terms like “women’s” or “men’s” to objects: it’s applying those terms when there aren’t biological averages to make sense of them, or when advertisers imply that switching categories is impossible. I wear men’s shoes and men’s shirts, the latter because my shoulders are much wider than the average woman’s and much closer to the male norm. I don’t think it’s denying my body type to present shirts that have broad shoulders and a cut that conforms to a flat chest and a narrowing, not curved, trunk as being “men’s”. But I would agree with you if you said that there also need to be more items that differ on a gradient from “men’s” and “women’s” clothing and other articles.

Women’s earplugs!