Retailers of school supplies have a specific market: girls. At best, a guy will have a pen, notebook, and possibly a folder or two. Even then, most guys rarely take notes after freshmen year. To be fair, we don’t have to. We know a dude who knows a dude whose dad owns a landscaping business. Also, we own/control everything in the world.
Anyway, this leaves an incredible amount of schools supplies on the shelves: highlighters, page tabs, paper clips, white out, specialty pens, pencil grips, colored pencils, paper punches, post-it notes, and planners which are not given away by a school.
I actually saw a girl yesterday using three different highlighters on a single page. This can’t be helpful. If highlighting means deciphering an elaborate system of references and covering 70-80% of a given text in some shade of neon, which it does, you’re really just making up excuses to color.
Then again, guys (and fat girls) are more likely to bring their computers to class. Obviously, this a security issue. A man with a computer wants to say to the world, “I am informed, alert, and tech-savvy. Leave it to me to look up that country’s capitol for you.” A fat girl, on the other hand, is probably in a chat room.
