{"id":14612,"date":"2009-10-26T10:32:06","date_gmt":"2009-10-26T15:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=14612"},"modified":"2012-10-14T01:49:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T06:49:53","slug":"chryslers-are-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/10\/26\/chryslers-are-for-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Chryslers are for Kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love that <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/vintage_ads\/1432287.html\" target=\"_blank\">this vintage ad<\/a> suggests that Chrysler cars are for the young at heart. When I think Chrysler, I think of grandparents.<\/p>\n<p>But no, &#8220;youth is a state of mind&#8221; and, according to this ad, it involves &#8220;a purposeful look,&#8221; &#8220;clean&#8221; &#8220;lines,&#8221; &#8220;no excess ornamentation,&#8221; and &#8220;safety.&#8221;\u00a0 And ice cream, of course.<\/p>\n<p>What a different social construction of what being young is all about!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14616\" title=\"0_319fe_2eb1fd2e_XL\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/10\/0_319fe_2eb1fd2e_XL.jpg\" alt=\"0_319fe_2eb1fd2e_XL\" width=\"500\" height=\"641\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>NEW (Dec. &#8217;09)! <\/strong><\/span>Dmitriy T.M. sent us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oobject.com\/12-sexist-vintage-ads\/chrysler\/6298\/\" target=\"_blank\">another example<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18082\" title=\"17e8aea0bd93a9c73ab6f8def24d09b2-orig\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/10\/17e8aea0bd93a9c73ab6f8def24d09b2-orig.png\" alt=\"17e8aea0bd93a9c73ab6f8def24d09b2-orig\" width=\"494\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/10\/17e8aea0bd93a9c73ab6f8def24d09b2-orig.png 668w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/10\/17e8aea0bd93a9c73ab6f8def24d09b2-orig-371x500.jpg 371w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/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>I love that this vintage ad suggests that Chrysler cars are for the young at heart. When I think Chrysler, I think of grandparents. But no, &#8220;youth is a state of mind&#8221; and, according to this ad, it involves &#8220;a purposeful look,&#8221; &#8220;clean&#8221; &#8220;lines,&#8221; &#8220;no excess ornamentation,&#8221; and &#8220;safety.&#8221;\u00a0 And ice cream, of course. What [&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":[223,221,293,23705],"class_list":["post-14612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-cars","tag-social-construction","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14612","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=14612"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18081,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14612\/revisions\/18081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}