SocImages in the News:

• I’m now officially a “professorette” (thanks Rush Limbaugh!), so I’d appreciate it if we did high kicks together whenever we cross paths.
• There’s Research on That! does an anatomy of Limbaugh’s comment, discussing research showing that women are more likely than men to face challenges to their legitimacy.
• New York Magazine covered Gwen Sharp’s discussion of the origins of the shopping cart.
• And Autostraddle picked up on our coverage of Amin Ghaziani’s research on residential segregation and sexual orientation.

You like!  Here are our most appreciated posts this month:

• More time with mom has little to no effect on children’s well-being (3,400+ likes)
• How manufacturers make you think you’re saving money when you’re spending it (1,700+ likes)
• Culture and privacy: A sociology of the shotgun house (750+ likes)
• Wall Street bonuses add up to twice the income of all minimum wage workers combined (700+ likes)
• The quinoa economy (500+ likes)

Thanks everybody!

Editor’s picks:

• Why rich people think they’re middle class
• Only 6% of college presidents think that sexual crime is prevalent on their campus

Top post on Tumblr this month:

• What a bold lingerie ad looks like (almost 100,000 notes!)

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Finally…

To all the students, faculty, and staff out there, I found this mossy, wooden-eyed, 100-year-old teddy bear inside the walls of my (shotgun) house. It wishes you good luck for the end of the semester. Tell it “thank you”… OR ELSE.