{"id":886,"date":"2010-12-21T16:10:26","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T20:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=886"},"modified":"2010-12-21T22:02:11","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T02:02:11","slug":"real-men-don%e2%80%99t-carry-ipads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2010\/12\/21\/real-men-don%e2%80%99t-carry-ipads\/","title":{"rendered":"Real Men Don\u2019t Carry iPads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2010\/12\/manpad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-888\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2010\/12\/manpad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2010\/12\/manpad.jpg 199w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/files\/2010\/12\/manpad-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>Life is rough for men wealthy enough to own an iPad: \u201chow to carry it in a manner that is practical and yet, well, masculine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/12\/16\/fashion\/16ipad.html\">a New York Times story<\/a> that chronicles the danger of the iPad on a man\u2019s masculinity, specifically, the need for a carrying case that does not look too much like \u2013gasp!\u2013 a woman\u2019s purse. The horror of appearing slightly feminine runs so deep that <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-17938_105-20010158-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNET ranks bags with a \u201chumiliation index\u201d<\/a> (would be better to call it a \u201cheteronormativity index\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>The story turns especially dark when we learn that Apple\u2019s neglect has resulted in some men not being able to leave the house with their iPad. Or even worse, not buy one at all in fear of not appearing masculine enough. But there is hope for these rich males: \u201cScottevest plans to introduce an iPad-compatible blazer in time for Christmas.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottevest.com\/company\/ipad.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">See the manvertising here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life is rough for men wealthy enough to own an iPad: \u201chow to carry it in a manner that is practical and yet, well, masculine.\u201d This is from a New York Times story that chronicles the danger of the iPad on a man\u2019s masculinity, specifically, the need for a carrying case that does not look [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9967],"tags":[3914,10225,2721,55,2835,3915,1976,876,10224,3162,10223,120],"class_list":["post-886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-apple","tag-bag","tag-femininity","tag-gender","tag-heteronormativity","tag-ipad","tag-masculinity","tag-men","tag-murse","tag-new-york-times","tag-purse","tag-sex"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=886"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":893,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/886\/revisions\/893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}