{"id":13918,"date":"2009-10-18T10:51:04","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T15:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=13918"},"modified":"2012-10-14T01:52:38","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T06:52:38","slug":"men-stop-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/10\/18\/men-stop-thinking\/","title":{"rendered":"Men: &#8220;Stop Thinking&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an earlier post I discussed how <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/10\/14\/college-enrollment-and-completion-the-intersectionality-of-class-race-and-gender\/\" target=\"_self\">men, these days, are less likely than women to enroll and graduate from college<\/a>.\u00a0 One theory for why involves an anti-intellectualism that is specifically male.\u00a0 That is, many men learn that to be a real man means rejecting prissy intellectual pursuits.\u00a0 Thinking is for chicks (and fags).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xFyzC4V_x-w&amp;feature=player_embedded#\" data-rel=\"lightbox-video-0\" target=\"_blank\">This commercial for Wrangler<\/a>, aimed at men specifically, asserts this exactly:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xFyzC4V_x-w&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><\/object><\/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>In an earlier post I discussed how men, these days, are less likely than women to enroll and graduate from college.\u00a0 One theory for why involves an anti-intellectualism that is specifically male.\u00a0 That is, many men learn that to be a real man means rejecting prissy intellectual pursuits.\u00a0 Thinking is for chicks (and fags). This [&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":[225,34,55,2087,2104],"class_list":["post-13918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clothesfashion","tag-education","tag-gender","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-knowledgeintelligence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13918","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=13918"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14477,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13918\/revisions\/14477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}