{"id":18968,"date":"2010-01-15T10:34:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T15:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=18968"},"modified":"2013-12-15T04:28:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T09:28:46","slug":"dial-a-heterosexual-nuclear-family-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/01\/15\/dial-a-heterosexual-nuclear-family-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Dial-A-Heterosexual Nuclear Family Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul S. sent in a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/technology\/gadgets\/3205003\/Dial-a-parent-kids-get-mobile\" target=\"_blank\">a cell phone for five-year-olds<\/a> (plus or minus).\u00a0 The fact that it has a button for dialing a female and a male person (presumably mom and dad) is a nice illustration of how having two parents of opposite sexes is normative.\u00a0 Many children have two caregivers of the same sex (e.g., a mom and a grandmother or gay parents) or only one caregiver (or, for that matter, more than two).\u00a0 But it is expected that a child will have a mother and a father involved in their life.\u00a0 That this is &#8220;normal&#8221; will be reflected back at that child again and again, whether or not it reflects their reality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/01\/15\/dial-a-heterosexual-nuclear-family-member\/attachment\/3206163\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18971\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18971\" title=\"3206163\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/01\/3206163.jpg\" width=\"281\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a>For more examples of heteronormativity see <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/08\/30\/illustrating-heteronormativity-on-a-changing-table\/\" target=\"_self\">this post (featuring sea monkeys!)<\/a> and also see <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/01\/13\/destabilizing-heteronormativity\/\" target=\"_self\">our post full of cute photos of same-sex animal couples<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul S. sent in a link to a cell phone for five-year-olds (plus or minus).\u00a0 The fact that it has a button for dialing a female and a male person (presumably mom and dad) is a nice illustration of how having two parents of opposite sexes is normative.\u00a0 Many children have two caregivers of the [&hellip;]<\/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":[223,55,2088,2159,54],"class_list":["post-18968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-gender-marriagefamily","tag-gadgets","tag-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18968","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=18968"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60555,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18968\/revisions\/60555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}