What is she a professor of, Woman’s Studies?
She obviously had not been around automobile tires, you cannot inflate them without a rim. Are you going to shove them down the pipe mount on steel or alloy? I hope she is planning on spinners cause their just cool. An inner tube will inflate on it’s own but is is just a thin balloon of rubber, not likely to survive the pressure or chemicals in the stream of petroleum screaming by.
She has an over inflated (pun intended) sense of her own intellect.
She should have done a little more research before putting her reputation on the line.