{"id":13462,"date":"2009-09-29T10:54:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T15:54:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=13462"},"modified":"2012-10-17T02:17:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T07:17:20","slug":"1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/09\/29\/1\/","title":{"rendered":"Strength and Attractiveness in Female Role Models"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not too long ago, we posted about <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/03\/19\/dora-the-explorers-makeover-gwen-and-i-saw-it-comin\/\" target=\"_self\">Dora the Explorer&#8217;s makeover<\/a>.\u00a0 Everyone was talking about it and lots of people felt that it signified\u00a0 a disinterest in strong role models for girls (Dora being one of the only ones out there), in favor of pretty ones.<\/p>\n<p>A recent post at Vintage Ads reminds us that taking strong female characters and subjecting them to trivializing beauty regimes is nothing new.\u00a0 Enjoy this ad for the <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/vintage_ads\/1357722.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bionic Woman Beauty Salon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13464\" title=\"a\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/a2.JPG\" alt=\"a\" width=\"455\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/a2.JPG 455w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/a2-332x500.jpg 332w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/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>Not too long ago, we posted about Dora the Explorer&#8217;s makeover.\u00a0 Everyone was talking about it and lots of people felt that it signified\u00a0 a disinterest in strong role models for girls (Dora being one of the only ones out there), in favor of pretty ones. A recent post at Vintage Ads reminds us that [&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":[223,55,2089,2099,2096,1711],"class_list":["post-13462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-gender-beauty","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-gender-femininity","tag-toysgames"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13462","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=13462"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51843,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13462\/revisions\/51843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}