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<\/p>\nI was at the Pittsburgh airport last week and I saw this concourse map and I thought to myself, “Wow, they used pink and they’re not trying to signify WOMAN!\u00a0 That’s something else!”<\/p>\n
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Then I looked closer and noticed that this concourse map was specifically for the shopping in the concourse.\u00a0 Notice it’s a map of the “AirMall”:<\/p>\n
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Sigh.<\/p>\n
Rebecca H. sent us a link to the Clorox website<\/a> and I thought “Holy Moly! There is actually a MAN on a cleaning product website!” (in the lower right):<\/p>\n Then I looked closer and realized that the man in question is a gay man famous for being on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.<\/p>\n Sigh.<\/p>\n Two opportunities for suffocating stereotypes to be undermined; two opportunities lost.<\/p>\n \u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n 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":" I was at the Pittsburgh airport last week and I saw this concourse map and I thought to myself, “Wow, they used pink and they’re not trying to signify WOMAN!\u00a0 That’s something else!” Then I looked closer and noticed that this concourse map was specifically for the shopping in the concourse.\u00a0 Notice it’s a map […]<\/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":[229,55,2096,2088,272,54],"class_list":["post-15507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-consumption","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-marriagefamily","tag-marriagefamily","tag-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507","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=15507"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15513,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507\/revisions\/15513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"clorox\"](\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/11\/clorox.JPG\" "\\"clorox\\"")
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