{"id":10866,"date":"2009-09-04T10:26:18","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T15:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=10866"},"modified":"2012-10-17T02:32:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T07:32:04","slug":"preparing-boys-to-be-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/09\/04\/preparing-boys-to-be-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing Boys To Be Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found these ads for Matchbox via <a href=\"http:\/\/copyranter.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/matchbox-molds-little-soulless-killers.html\" target=\"_blank\">Copyranter<\/a>.\u00a0 In them, war toys are sold by situating small boys in realistic, not at all playful, conditions.\u00a0\u00a0 The blurring of the lines between pretend and real war is really interesting.\u00a0 Whereas pretend war could be fun, real war is certainly not so.\u00a0 And, oddly, the facial expressions and postures of the children in the ads do not suggest that they are having fun at all.\u00a0 The ads seem to reveal, more than most, how play is also socialization.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10868\" title=\"MatchboxSingapore2\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/07\/MatchboxSingapore2-1024x494.jpg\" alt=\"MatchboxSingapore2\" width=\"608\" height=\"293\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/07\/MatchboxSingapore2-1024x494.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/07\/MatchboxSingapore2-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/07\/MatchboxSingapore2.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 608px) 100vw, 608px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10869\" title=\"MatchboxSingapore1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/07\/MatchboxSingapore1-1024x494.jpg\" alt=\"MatchboxSingapore1\" width=\"609\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10870\" title=\"matchbox_Chopper\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/07\/matchbox_Chopper-1024x494.jpg\" alt=\"matchbox_Chopper\" width=\"614\" height=\"295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/07\/matchbox_Chopper-1024x494.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/07\/matchbox_Chopper-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 614px) 100vw, 614px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found these ads for Matchbox via Copyranter.\u00a0 In them, war toys are sold by situating small boys in realistic, not at all playful, conditions.\u00a0\u00a0 The blurring of the lines between pretend and real war is really interesting.\u00a0 Whereas pretend war could be fun, real war is certainly not so.\u00a0 And, oddly, the facial expressions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,55,2099,2087,1711,309],"class_list":["post-10866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-toysgames","tag-warmilitary"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10866","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=10866"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51886,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10866\/revisions\/51886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}