{"id":19736,"date":"2010-02-13T10:23:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T15:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=19736"},"modified":"2013-12-15T04:11:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T09:11:36","slug":"men-are-loved-women-are-property","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/13\/men-are-loved-women-are-property\/","title":{"rendered":"Men are &#8220;Loved&#8221;; Women are &#8220;Property&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria A. sent along this ad for Cafe Press:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/13\/men-are-loved-women-are-property\/cafepress\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-19739\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19739\" title=\"cafepress\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/02\/cafepress.jpg\" width=\"568\" height=\"435\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay, okay, I know it&#8217;s just Cafe Press and anyone can make anything on Cafe Press and, heck, these undies probably come in both variations&#8230; but even so!<\/p>\n<p>I mean really! Can we just think a second before we make an ad that includes a pair of men&#8217;s underwear that say &#8220;Loved by&#8230;&#8221; and a pair of women&#8217;s that say &#8220;Property of&#8230;&#8221;? I mean, can we just NOT do that when women actually are the legal property of men in some places and were at one point in history in many?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a joke. Women who, by virtue of being owned by someone, could not own property themselves; could not vote or enter into contracts; women whose children were taken away if they separated; who, when raped, deserved no compensation because she belonged to a man who, not incidentally, DID deserve compensation because his property had been tarnished. Can we, like, just not make this ad quite this way? Please?<\/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>Victoria A. sent along this ad for Cafe Press: Okay, okay, I know it&#8217;s just Cafe Press and anyone can make anything on Cafe Press and, heck, these undies probably come in both variations&#8230; but even so! I mean really! Can we just think a second before we make an ad that includes a pair [&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":[225,55,254],"class_list":["post-19736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clothesfashion","tag-gender","tag-holidays"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19736","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=19736"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60473,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19736\/revisions\/60473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}