{"id":17677,"date":"2010-01-08T10:45:10","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T15:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=17677"},"modified":"2017-09-16T21:52:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T02:52:58","slug":"vintage-avis-ad-our-avis-girls-will-flirt-with-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/01\/08\/vintage-avis-ad-our-avis-girls-will-flirt-with-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Avis Ad: Our Avis Girls Will Flirt with You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James H. (of Town Creek Poetry) sent in this vintage Avis ad:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17676 aligncenter\" title=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/12\/11.jpg\" alt=\"-1\" width=\"483\" height=\"765\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/12\/11.jpg 624w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/12\/11-315x500.jpg 315w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 483px) 100vw, 483px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So the company marketed its cars to implicitly heterosexual male customers with the possibility of flirting, and even sexual access, to its attractive female employees (that is, &#8220;girls&#8221;). I have no idea if female employees were expected to actually wink at people.<\/p>\n<p>Also see our post on <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/03\/14\/singapore-girls-and-emotion-work\/\">Singapore Girls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em>Gwen Sharp is an associate professor of sociology at Nevada State College. You can follow her on Twitter at @gwensharpnv.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James H. (of Town Creek Poetry) sent in this vintage Avis ad: So the company marketed its cars to implicitly heterosexual male customers with the possibility of flirting, and even sexual access, to its attractive female employees (that is, &#8220;girls&#8221;). I have no idea if female employees were expected to actually wink at people. Also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[279,55,2093,2100,120,23705,76],"class_list":["post-17677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-objectification","tag-gender","tag-gender-objectification","tag-gender-work","tag-sex","tag-vintage-stuff","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17677","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17677"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71240,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17677\/revisions\/71240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}