{"id":13604,"date":"2009-09-25T12:34:13","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T17:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=13604"},"modified":"2010-12-15T04:15:35","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T09:15:35","slug":"suzy-homemaker-toys-be-the-queen-of-your-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/09\/25\/suzy-homemaker-toys-be-the-queen-of-your-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Suzy Homemaker Toys: Be the &#8220;Queen of Your Home&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/Capture17.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/09\/Capture17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"423\" height=\"96\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30767\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWe have, of course, posted a number of examples of toys that socialize girls into motherhood and housework (<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/02\/02\/hasbro-teachers-girls-to-be-good-housewives\/\">for instance<\/a>). But this 1960s commercial for the Suzy Homemaker line of toys, sent in by Monica B., is the most comprehensive example I&#8217;ve ever seen, including everything from cooking, doing laundry, vacuuming, to looking pretty:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3rAiii4LA3k&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not quite sure why, but I find this commercial really creepy. Maybe it&#8217;s the underlying message that you should do housework <em>and<\/em> be pretty at the same time if you want to be &#8220;queen of your home&#8221; and, presumably, the housewife everyone else admires and envies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have, of course, posted a number of examples of toys that socialize girls into motherhood and housework (for instance). But this 1960s commercial for the Suzy Homemaker line of toys, sent in by Monica B., is the most comprehensive example I&#8217;ve ever seen, including everything from cooking, doing laundry, vacuuming, to looking pretty: I&#8217;m [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,55,2089,2099,2096,2088,272,1711,23705],"class_list":["post-13604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-gender-beauty","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-marriagefamily","tag-marriagefamily","tag-toysgames","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13604","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13604"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30768,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13604\/revisions\/30768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}