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SocImages News:

• The Washington Post name-dropped SocImages in its article on this year’s female-friendly Super Bowl commercials, specifically our collection of ejaculation imagery in ads.
• I weighed in on Valentine’s Day at the Bitch podcast, Popaganda.
• I was able to contribute to articles at the Greatist (Are We Seriously Not Having Better Sex Than Our Parents?) and  Los Angeles Magazine (The Trouble with Oxy).
• And I recorded a conversation with the guys behind the new Dad’s Home podcast. Looking forward to hearing it!

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

We had one BIG winner this month! In “Where Do Negative Stereotypes about Feminists Come From,” I collected some pre-1920s anti-suffrage propaganda that revealed that stereotypes about feminists are 100 years old or more.  It got 5,200 likes here on SocImages and 16,250 notes on our Tumblr. Thanks everybody!

Editor’s pick:

My favorite was the one about tomatoes.

Upcoming Lectures and Appearances:

• If anyone’s going to MSS this year, I’d love to say “hi”! I’ll be giving a plenary on March 27th titled “Doing Public Sociology: Notes from a Practitioner.”
• Afterward I’ll be dropping by to the University of Missouri, Columbia to give a talk on hookup culture. Drop me a line if you’d like to meet up!

Follow us!

• SocImages is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, and Pinterest.
• I’m on Facebook and and Twitter.
• More of the team! @gwensharpnv, @familyunequal, and @jaylivingston

Finally…

I’ve started a little side project. Just a place to store and collect my thoughts about New Orleans. Most of what’s on there now has already been posted here, and I can’t promise that won’t be the case for what comes next. But if you’d like to follow along, please be my guest. It’s part of my long-term fantasy of writing a social science-inspired guidebook to the city. You know, for nerds.

Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender; and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

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

• Ohio class teaches children that men think and women feel (9,400+ likes)
• Five reasons why gendered products are a problem (3,800+ likes)
• Why you should shut up when poor people buy new Nikes (5,000+ likes)
• Lumbersexuals and white heteromasculine pageantry (1,600+ likes)
• Americans are fleeing religion and Republicans are to blame (1,100+ likes)
• Herculean dimorphism (950+ likes)
• Growing up poor has effects on your children even if you escape poverty (800+ likes)

Editor’s pick:

• How Prohibition put the cocaine in Coca Cola

Top funny:

• The difference between Anthropology and Sociology (1,600+ likes)

Social media milestone!

We reached 70,000 fans on Facebook this month. We’ll keep trying to feed interesting, useful, and funny sociological stuff. Thanks everybody!

Social Media ‘n’ Stuff:

Finally, this is your monthly reminder that SocImages is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Google+, and Pinterest.  I’m on Facebook and most of the team is on Twitter: @lisawade, @gwensharpnv, @familyunequal, and @jaylivingston.

Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender; and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

SocImages News:

As we entered December, I collected a set of SocImages posts relevant to the deaths of black Americans at the hands of police. It includes sections on race and police work, the link between black men and criminals in our minds, proof that we have less empathy for black people, and evidence of the way that racism is deeply institutionalized throughout American society. I hope it’s a useful resource.

Meanwhile, at SocofGender…

I have made a lot of progress toward building a Soc of Gender Pinterest page to accompany my textbook, organized by chapter and concept. Please feel free to visit and use it even if you don’t adopt the book. I’ve built 48 boards so far. Here are some of my favorites:

• Boys don’t have eyelashes
• Gender across cultures
• What sexual dimorphism really looks like
• Intersectionality, visuals and data
• Men and the rule to avoid the feminine

Look at how numerous and pretty!

Best of December!

Christmas favorites:

• An SI theory nerd review of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
• Did the Nazis celebrate Christmas?

Readers’ picks:

• Women in apocalyptic fiction shaving their armpits (4,000+ likes)
• The teaching evaluation experience (3,300+ likes)
• The paradox of women’s sexuality in breast feeding advocacy and breast cancer campaigns (1,600+ likes)
• Tropicana ad says that girls should be “easy” (1,100+ likes)
• Angela Davis: “No idea what black people have gone through” (800+ likes)

Women in apocalyptic fiction shaving was also the month’s winner on Tumblr, with over 78,000 likes and shares!

Editor’s pick:

• Inequality in the skies: Applying the Gini Coefficient to airplanes

Elsewhere on the Net:

SocImages’ Pointlessly Gendered Products was featured at i100: Nine Products that Have Been Pointlessly Gendered. They apparently especially liked one of our newest examples, bagpipes, and also went for one of my favorites, pickles.

And I had the pleasure of being quoted in a couple articles:

• The Dangerous Lessons Kids Learn from Sexist T-Shirts, a great article explaining why it’s not “just a t-shirt,” by Jessica Samakow at Huffington Post
• The Magnetic Appeal of Male Friendship by David Grossman at Stereogum

Social Media ‘n’ Stuff:

Finally, this is your monthly reminder that SocImages is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Google+, and Pinterest.  I’m on Facebook and most of the team is on Twitter: @lisawade, @gwensharpnv, @familyunequal, and @jaylivingston.

Finally…

In honor of the special place the anglerfish has in my heart — being so ugly and strange — here’s some rare footage of the fish in action. Want to learn more? Here’s the most humorous way.

Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender; and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

SocImages news!

Our top post on Tumblr this month, with over 45,000 likes and re-blogs, discusses a brain imaging study that suggests that social justice is linked to logic, not emotion.

We earned some major nerd cred this month when Wil Wheaton tumbled it! Here is the awesome evidence of that fabulous day:

Seriously, folks. My inner 14-year-old girl downright squealed.

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

Why do witches ride brooms was the clear winner with 9,300+ likes. And it’ll be obvious why if you click through to find out.

Other winners:

• 57% of languages do not have gendered pronouns (3,100+ likes)
• Muggle Studies and Defense Against the Dark Arts (1,600+ likes)
• School shootings: What’s different about Europe? (1,400+ likes)
• What does organic look like? (900+ likes)
• Our annual “Sexy What!?” post (900+ likes)
• The no. 1 cause of traffic fatalities? It’s not texting, it’s driving (800+ likes)

Thanks everybody!

Editor’s pick:

• How the bird hat craze almost killed the dinosaurs… and inspired the Audubon Society

New Pinterest board!

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and its backlash, we put together a Pinterest board featuring the weirdest and most outrageous examples of pinkwashing. And we started it BEFORE the pinkwashed fracking drill bit was announced!

Social Media ‘n’ Stuff:

Finally, this is your monthly reminder that SocImages is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Google+, and Pinterest.  I’m on Facebook and most of the team is on Twitter: @lisawade, @gwensharpnv, @familyunequal, and @jaylivingston.

Finally…

Sociologist D’Lane Compton hopes you had a happy Halloween! Follow her on Twitter!

Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender; and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

SocImages news:

On the heels of the release of Philip Cohen’s new textbook — The Family — comes one from yours truly and the extraordinary sociologist, Myra Marx Ferree: Gender: Ideas, Interactions, Institutions.

Thanks to Leland Bobbe, the photographer; Crystal Demure, the model; and the talent at W.W. Norton for the truly stunning cover!

Here are some ways to order, sample, and follow the book:

• Get your exam copy or pre-order here.
• Read a free sample chapter on gender and the workplace.
• Follow socofgender on Twitter, Facebook, or Pinterest.

At SocImages this month…

You like!  Here are our most appreciated posts in September:

• Marx, Weber, and Durkheim on a tree falling in the forest… (4,500+ likes)
• Why don’t religious people know more about religion? (1,800+ likes)
• The average white American’s social network is 1% black (1,300+ likes)
• Separating marriage from child rearing: The Mosuo of China (1,000+ likes)
• Student suffers alienation from paper on alienation (1,000+ likes)
• How do we decipher sex in daily life (900+ likes)

Thanks everybody!

Editor’s pick:

• Reading the camouflage: “You are now enemy combatants”

New Pinterest board!

• Sexy what!? A collection of advertisements for products that shouldn’t be sexy, ever, but are. So help us God.

Social Media ‘n’ Stuff:

This is your monthly reminder that SocImages is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Google+, and Pinterest.  I’m on Facebook and most of the team is on Twitter: @lisawade, @gwensharpnv, @familyunequal, and @jaylivingston.

In other news…

Founder Gwen Sharp is the second SocImages sociologist featured at Cute Overload! Three kittens less than a week old were found nestled under a tire in the parking lot at Nevada State College. She’s been raising them ever since and documenting their progress at the NSC kittens tumblr.

Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender; and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

SocImages news:

• We rarely snark on SocImages but, when we do, we get quoted at New York Magazine.
• Our list of professors’ pet peeves really resonated, attracting 9,400+ likes and nearly 500 shares on Facebook.  Sociologist D’Lane Compton offered a thoughtful response, asking whether this type of list is more social bonding than useful pedagogy.

New Pinterest board!

Someone put panties on peaches and then we had to start a new Pinterest board called Sexy What!?  It’s a collection of totally random stuff being made weirdly and unnecessarily sexual by marketers. My favorites are the ads for organ donation, hearing aids, CPR, and sea monkeys.  Enjoy!

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

• In employers’ eyes, for-profit colleges are equivalent to high school (3,600+ likes)
• “Black and white twins” and the social construction of race (1,600+ likes)
• Statistically significant others (1,200+ likes)
• Academic writing MadLib (1,200+ likes)
• #iftheygunnedmedown attacks portrayals of black men killed by police (1,100+ likes)
• The best thesis defense is a good offense (800+ likes)
• Julie Chen explains why she underwent “Westernizing” surgery (700+ likes)
• Wealth or good parenting? Framing the privileges of the rich (600+ likes)

Thanks everybody!

Editor’s pick:

• That’s fishy: From scent to suspicion and back

Top post on Tumblr this month:

• Now THIS is a bold lingerie ad! (87,000+ likes and shares)

Don’t forget our course guides!

Classes are starting and if you’re teaching you might find our Course Guides useful.  These collect strong SocImages posts organized in a way that follows standard syllabi for frequently-taught sociology courses.  Please use and share freely!

• Introduction to Sociology
• Sociology of Gender
• Family and Society
• Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
• Sociology of Sport
• Sociology of Work
• Sexuality and Society
• Sociological Research Methods
• Women and History

We’d love more! If you are a sociology professor or graduate student who would like to make one.  Please get in touch!

Social Media ‘n’ Stuff:

Finally, this is your monthly reminder that SocImages is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Google+, and Pinterest.  I’m on Facebook and most of the team is on Twitter: @lisawade, @gwensharpnv, @familyunequal, and @jaylivingston.

Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender; and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

Call for Papers:

• I’m looking for recommendations for fantastic blog posts addressing gender and its intersections for a book project.   Self-nominations are welcome!  Please send ideas to lwade@oxy.edu.

SocImages News:

• Happy birthday, little blog!  You’re 7!

Elsewhere on the Web:

• I spent an hour with Sex Nerd Sandra talking the history of hookup culture. Listen here.
• A post about racist color blind dress codes caught the attention of NPR. They interviewed me for a story about the phenomenon.
• New York Magazine wrote about our discussion of rural white men rollin’ coal.
• TV Guide picked up Sezin Koehler’s coverage of the failed coverage of female body parts at HBO.
• I appeared on Portland’s Carl in the Morning to talk about the decline of conformity in America.  Listen here.

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

• Overweight Americans have the lowest risk of premature death (2,500+ likes)
• Gender-neutral bathrooms: Solving the sign problem (1,500+ likes)
• Cuteness-inspired aggression is actually a thing (1,300+ likes)
• “Trophy scarves”: Race, gender, and the woman-as-prop trope (1,100+ likes)
• Wall Street: The hidden culprit behind rising tuition (1000+ likes)
• Confirmation bias expert convinced everyone suffers from confirmation bias (800+ likes)
• Beyond the gender binary (700+ likes)
• Main, mean, and median streets (600+ likes)

Thanks everybody!

Editor’s Pick!

• Newsflash: Facebook has always manipulated your emotions
• A reluctant defense of sunscreen for men

Social Media ‘n’ Stuff:

Finally, this is your monthly reminder that SocImages is on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Google+, and Pinterest.  I’m on Facebook and most of the team is on Twitter: @lisawade, @gwensharpnv, @familyunequal, and @jaylivingston.

Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender; and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.

We’re 7 years old today!  To celebrate, check out this picture of seven capybaras.

Thanks to everyone who has visited over the last seven years!  This is our 5,226th post and I can hardly believe it.  Ready to charge on for another!

Here are some highlights from the last year. The blog never ceases to surprise!

• Volunteers put together two new Course Guides: Sociology of Work and Occupations and Family and Society.
• We put together three new Pinterest pages: Racist Antics at Colleges and High Schools,  the Mean Girls Meme, and Marketing Feminism.
• Celebrity tweets! Musician Amanda Palmer and Piper Kerman, of Orange is the New Black fame, tweeted about us!
• We received an award from MERLOT for being an “outstanding” sociology resource.
• Charlotte’s letter to Lego went viral.
• Our contributor, sociologist Philip Cohen, had a new textbook come out, titled: The Family: Diversity, Inequality, and Social Change.
• We began seeing SocImages material re-posted at Business Insider.
• Our most liked post of the year: From the Mouths of Rapists: The Lyrics of Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines, by Sezin Koehler, received 186,000 likes and counting.
• My Salon article on men’s difficulty forming friendships with other men hit a nerve.
• The Society Pages podcast interviewed me about what it’s like nurturing this site to life every day.
• Our 8-month-old Tumblr reached 17,000+ followers and we can now boast 57,000 Facebook, 20,000 Twitter, and 12,000 Pinterest followers.  Y’all are the best!

Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender; and a forthcoming introductory text: Terrible Magnificent Sociology. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram.