{"id":15769,"date":"2009-11-17T10:02:09","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T15:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=15769"},"modified":"2012-09-18T23:49:25","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T04:49:25","slug":"mccain-webpage-doesnt-recognize-lady-doctors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/11\/17\/mccain-webpage-doesnt-recognize-lady-doctors\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain Webpage Doesn\u2019t Recognize Lady Doctors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amanda C. caught John McCain with some interesting presumptions! The contact part of his webpage has a drop down menu for the senders’ honorific(s)<\/a> (see a close up below):<\/p>\n

\"McCain_Contact_Form\"<\/p>\n

Close up:<\/p>\n

\"McCain_Contact_Form\"<\/p>\n

So, the list is heteronormative (no “Mr. and Mr.” or “Ms. and Ms.”).<\/p>\n

Further, because no write-ins are allowed, it also forces people who aren’t gender-typical to choose a gender if they want to send McCain a note.<\/p>\n

And it bizarrely erases women doctors (no “Mr. and Dr.” or “Dr. and Mr.”).<\/p>\n

Nice catch, Amanda!<\/p>\n

UPDATE: After seeing this, Danielle F. sent in a screenshot of the honorifics choices that came up when she ordered tickets to “The Nutcracker” at the Detroit Opera House:<\/p>\n

\"detroitoperahouse_titles\"<\/p>\n

So you could theoretically be a single female Rev., Col., Capt., and so on, but the married versions of those all assume a female spouse. Notice they also have a listing for King, but not Queen.\u00a0 I guess they get a lot of male royalty at the Detroit Opera House.<\/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":"

Amanda C. caught John McCain with some interesting presumptions! The contact part of his webpage has a drop down menu for the senders’ honorific(s) (see a close up below): Close up: So, the list is heteronormative (no “Mr. and Mr.” or “Ms. and Ms.”). Further, because no write-ins are allowed, it also forces people who […]<\/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":[23384,55,2094,2106,252,85,54,76],"class_list":["post-15769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-gender","tag-gender-politics","tag-gender-transgenderintersex","tag-healthmedicine","tag-politics","tag-sexual-orientation","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15769","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=15769"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51171,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15769\/revisions\/51171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}