{"id":17886,"date":"2009-12-23T10:48:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T15:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=17886"},"modified":"2011-08-08T02:07:38","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T07:07:38","slug":"guest-post-fun-with-the-2009-target-catalog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/12\/23\/guest-post-fun-with-the-2009-target-catalog\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun with the 2009 Target Catalog"},"content":{"rendered":"

My besties gave me a copy of the target toy catalog for 2009 and pointed out the front cover.<\/p>\n

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At first i thought it was just your typical run of the mill gender socialization propaganda…<\/p>\n

White girl on the cover? Check.
\nIs she wearing pink? Check.
\nIs she wearing a tiara? Check.
\nIs she wearing a tutu? Check.
\nIs the tutu pink? Check.
\nIs she smiling? Check.
\nIs she playing with barbie? Check.
\nIs there a little boy in the image? Check.
\nIs he doing one of the following: making a mess, eating something or expressing anger? Check.<\/p>\n

Ok, the basics are covered.<\/p>\n

But upon further inspection, I realize that the barbie is holding Lego flowers…. and… wait a minute… are those church bells I see?!\u00a0 …<\/p>\n

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That little boy isn’t just upset because she is playing with his (read: a boy’s) toy… He is mad because she is marrying them!<\/p>\n

So not only do we have an image of a smiling white girl wearing a pink tutu and tiara playing with barbie while a little boy is expressing anger… but we can add heteronormative relationships and male aversion to marriage to the list.\u00a0 Yay!\u00a0 The only things missing are caption bubbles:<\/p>\n

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As a silver lining I like to look at this image and imagine that the little boy is upset for other reasons…<\/p>\n

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Or maybe the little boy is a radical activist:<\/p>\n

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Monica is teaches ethnic studies and works with survivors of interpersonal violence.\u00a0 She blogs at\u00a0The Woes of a Barren Lesbo<\/a> and recently wrote\u00a0an irreverent take-down of the cover of a Target holiday catalog<\/a>.\u00a0 We thought you’d enjoy her humor and creativity.<\/p>\n

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My besties gave me a copy of the target toy catalog for 2009 and pointed out the front cover. At first i thought it was just your typical run of the mill gender socialization propaganda… White girl on the cover? Check. Is she wearing pink? Check. Is she wearing a tiara? Check. Is she wearing […]<\/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":[223,55,2099,2096,2088,2087,254,272,1711,54],"class_list":["post-17886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-marriagefamily","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-holidays","tag-marriagefamily","tag-toysgames","tag-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17886","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=17886"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17906,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17886\/revisions\/17906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}