Marketers are happy to respond to and create insecurities. Here’s one we haven’t covered before, shoes and inserts for men that covertly increase their height:
Borrowed from The Social Complex, a heightism blog. See also guest posts from The Social Complex introducing the concept of heightism as a gendered prejudice and discussing heightism (and other icky stuff) at Hooters.
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Lisa Wade is a professor of sociology at Occidental College. You can follow her on Twitter and Facebook.
