{"id":11494,"date":"2009-09-11T10:11:53","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T15:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=11494"},"modified":"2012-10-17T02:25:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T07:25:31","slug":"because-sassy-patterns-and-floral-prints-make-mens-eyeballs-bleed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/09\/11\/because-sassy-patterns-and-floral-prints-make-mens-eyeballs-bleed\/","title":{"rendered":"Because Sassy Patterns And Floral Prints Make Men’s Eyeballs Bleed…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…there’s Kleenex for men:<\/p>\n

\"2405941831_eb1ccafca7\"<\/p>\n

In case you don’t know that brown, black, and gray = men, it says so right on the box!<\/p>\n

\"000033\"\"kleenexxx\"<\/p>\n

Apparently these are on sale in the U.K.\u00a0 I haven’t seen them in the U.S.<\/p>\n

In looking this up, I discovered that gendered Kleenex marketing is nothing new.\u00a0 This ad, from Life<\/em> magazine, is from December 1964:<\/p>\n

\"kleenex\"<\/p>\n

Images found here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Also in gendered products: tv dinners<\/a>, uniforms<\/a>, candy bars<\/a>, ear plugs ‘n stuff<\/a>, deodorant<\/a>, Pepsi<\/a>, and mosquito repellent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n

Lisa Wade is a\u00a0professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…there’s Kleenex for men: In case you don’t know that brown, black, and gray = men, it says so right on the box! Apparently these are on sale in the U.K.\u00a0 I haven’t seen them in the U.S. In looking this up, I discovered that gendered Kleenex marketing is nothing new.\u00a0 This ad, from Life […]<\/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":[55,2087,23703,1811,23705],"class_list":["post-11494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-marketing","tag-nation-britainthe-u-k","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11494","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=11494"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11527,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11494\/revisions\/11527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}