{"id":10681,"date":"2015-10-30T09:31:06","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T14:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=10681"},"modified":"2015-10-23T13:50:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T18:50:27","slug":"beer-man-and-beer-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/10\/30\/beer-man-and-beer-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"“Man” vs. “girl,” Halloween edition"},"content":{"rendered":"

The practice of pairing the word “men” (which refers to adults) with “girls” (which does not) reinforces a gender hierarchy by mapping it onto age.\u00a0 Jason S.<\/a> discovered an example of this tendency at Halloween Adventure (East Village, NYC) and snapped a picture to send in:<\/p>\n

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Sara P. found another example, this time from\u00a0iparty<\/a>. \u00a0The flyer puts a girl and a boy side-by-side in police officer costumes. \u00a0The boy\u2019s is labeled \u201cpoliceman\u201d and the girl\u2019s is labeled \u201cpolice girl.\u201d<\/p>\n

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This type of language often goes unnoticed, but it sends a ubiquitous gender message about how seriously we should take men and women.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The practice of pairing the word “men” (which refers to adults) with “girls” (which does not) reinforces a gender hierarchy by mapping it onto age.\u00a0 Jason S. discovered an example of this tendency at Halloween Adventure (East Village, NYC) and snapped a picture to send in: Sara P. found another example, this time from\u00a0iparty. \u00a0The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":68207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23384,55,2096,2087,254],"class_list":["post-10681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-holidays"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/10\/3.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10681"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68210,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10681\/revisions\/68210"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}