{"id":14206,"date":"2009-10-28T10:19:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T15:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=14206"},"modified":"2012-10-14T01:46:52","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T06:46:52","slug":"halloween-another-chance-to-trivialize-women-in-masculine-occupations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/10\/28\/halloween-another-chance-to-trivialize-women-in-masculine-occupations\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween, Another Chance to Trivialize Women in Masculine Occupations"},"content":{"rendered":"

These two Halloween costumes in a mall display, snapped by Deeky (here<\/a> and here<\/a>, via Shakesville<\/a>), make a joke of women working in masculine occupations by suggesting that they’re, essentially, sex workers.<\/p>\n

Captain Layover:<\/p>\n

\"captlayover\"<\/p>\n

Free Rides:<\/p>\n

\"taxi\"<\/p>\n

See our other Halloween-related posts: two extra-special costumes (the Anna Rexia costume<\/a> and the Sexy Scholar<\/a>), Max Weber jack o’lantern<\/a> (by yours truly), Obama mask sold as terrorist mask<\/a>, a Sarah Palin effigy<\/a>, handling sex offenders on trick-o’-treat day<\/a>, and costume catalog analyses (here<\/a> and here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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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":"

These two Halloween costumes in a mall display, snapped by Deeky (here and here, via Shakesville), make a joke of women working in masculine occupations by suggesting that they’re, essentially, sex workers. Captain Layover: Free Rides: See our other Halloween-related posts: two extra-special costumes (the Anna Rexia costume and the Sexy Scholar), Max Weber jack […]<\/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":[55,2096,2087,2100,254,120,291,76],"class_list":["post-14206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-gender-work","tag-holidays","tag-sex","tag-sex-work","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206","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=14206"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14210,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14206\/revisions\/14210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}