gender blog week 3

My eureka moment came this week when I was sitting in a waiting room. I do focus group testing each week with my mother and I usually finish before her so I was waiting in the little area they have in the front. I began to look around and though it was not the first time I had been in this room before--in fact, every time I come here I have to pass through this area to get to the desk--i started to notice many things that I never usually think twice about. The focus groups and stations are to smell different scents relating to home fragrances, lotions, shampoos, air fresheners, etc. Even as I was going through the exercises, there are descriptions for us to decipher what we think the fragrance smells like. As I was sitting in the waiting room however, I saw two posters on the wall which depicted a ton of perfumes and colognes, one labeled women scents and the other men scents. I started to think of what made a woman scent a woman scent and why feminine scents were flowery and fruity as opposed to men scents. It seems that more and more, society is tailoring genders in every sense of our daily lives and we are constantly reminded every where we turn as to what our gender means in our society even down to the smallest things such as what we should smell like!