{"id":20086,"date":"2010-02-28T10:22:34","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T15:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=20086"},"modified":"2017-09-16T21:15:31","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T02:15:31","slug":"lindsay-ellis-on-the-smurfette-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/28\/lindsay-ellis-on-the-smurfette-principle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smurfette Principle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this video, sent in by Martha, Lindsay Ellis asks why it is that female characters in general-audience cartoons, if present at all, are always plot points for the male characters. Her point is clearly sound, but damn does she marshal the evidence!\u00a0 She appears to have really done her homework&#8230; but I have no doubt that those of you who are experts in <em>My Little Pony<\/em>, <em>Transformers<\/em>, <em>Scooby Do<\/em>, and <em>She-Ra<\/em> will have something to add.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/q1kLGYI8vQU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another video on the same topic:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/opM3T2__lZA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For more on the phenomenon in which women are women and men are people, see <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/02\/10\/your-body-men-are-people-and-women-are-women\/\" target=\"_self\">our analysis of the &#8220;Human&#8221; Bodies exhibit<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/12\/20\/girls-as-an-afterthought\/\" target=\"_self\">girls as an afterthought<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/11\/24\/dinosaurs-are-for-boys-girls-allowed\/\" target=\"_self\">dinosaurs are for boys (and girls)<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/08\/04\/does-this-sign-suprise-you\/\" target=\"_self\">traffic lights with female figures<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/05\/18\/stick-figures-and-stick-figures-who-parent\/\" target=\"_self\">stick figures and stick figures who parent<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/05\/04\/default-avatars-a-collection\/\" target=\"_self\">default avatars.<\/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>In this video, sent in by Martha, Lindsay Ellis asks why it is that female characters in general-audience cartoons, if present at all, are always plot points for the male characters. Her point is clearly sound, but damn does she marshal the evidence!\u00a0 She appears to have really done her homework&#8230; but I have no [&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":[223,55,2099,129,343],"class_list":["post-20086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-media","tag-tvmovies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20086","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=20086"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71203,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20086\/revisions\/71203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}