{"id":17943,"date":"2009-12-14T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T15:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=17943"},"modified":"2013-02-23T02:08:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T07:08:19","slug":"women-can-wear-mens-shirts-but-men-cannot-wear-womens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/12\/14\/women-can-wear-mens-shirts-but-men-cannot-wear-womens\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Can Wear Men’s Shirts, but Men Cannot Wear Women’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

V. and Anna G. sent in this ad for a LOLCats<\/a> T-shirt.\u00a0 Notice that the woman’s t-shirt is for women only, but the man’s t-shirt also doubles as a unisex shirt.<\/p>\n

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Both Emily W. and Sabine M. sent in this example of the same phenomenon at Mental Floss<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Mindy J. sent us a third example from Secret Society of Vegans<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Finally, Jessica S. sent in this example from Kung Fu Nation<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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This is just another example of the phenomenon of how we take one half of a (false) binary (such as man vs. woman) and make one generic and the other specific.\u00a0\u00a0 Men can be human, but women are always female humans<\/a>; white people can be just people, but non-white people are always other<\/a>; Christian symbols are for everyone, but non-Christian symbols are exclusive<\/a>; and so on and so on.<\/p>\n

For more examples, see these posts on how racial and ethnic identity adds spice<\/a>, Sotomayor’s racial bias<\/a>, male neutrality in stick figures (here<\/a> and here<\/a>), male-default avatars<\/a>, flesh-colored products<\/a>, for normal to darker skin<\/a>, Michelle Obama’s “flesh-colored” gown<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

V. and Anna G. sent in this ad for a LOLCats T-shirt.\u00a0 Notice that the woman’s t-shirt is for women only, but the man’s t-shirt also doubles as a unisex shirt. Both Emily W. and Sabine M. sent in this example of the same phenomenon at Mental Floss: Mindy J. sent us a third example […]<\/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":[225,55],"class_list":["post-17943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clothesfashion","tag-gender"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17943","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=17943"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18089,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17943\/revisions\/18089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}