{"id":2028,"date":"2008-08-05T14:13:45","date_gmt":"2008-08-05T19:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=2028"},"modified":"2017-10-01T19:36:13","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T00:36:13","slug":"born-2-learn-to-find-gender-stereotypes-cute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/08\/05\/born-2-learn-to-find-gender-stereotypes-cute\/","title":{"rendered":"Born 2 Learn to Find Gender Stereotypes Cute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took these two photos of pacifiers for sale at a Babies-R-Us in upstate New York:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/08\/100_0058.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2026 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/08\/100_0058.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"481\" height=\"377\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/08\/100_0059.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2027 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/08\/100_0059.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"518\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I hate the way we start labeling girls at a young age as high-maintenance divas who are vain, boy-crazy, and spend a lot of money. And we now start socializing <em>infants<\/em> into gendered stereotypes that portray girls in ways that, though superficially humorous, also imply that we expect girls and women to be self-centered, ridiculous people. For other examples of these types of messages, see <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/06\/08\/heelarious-high-heels-for-your-infant\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/04\/14\/sexist-stereotypes-for-kids-on-sale-now-at-walgreens\/\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/02\/03\/t-shirts-for-babies-and-children\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>NEW<\/strong><\/span>: Blanca M. took a picture of this sign for Little Divas, a store here in Vegas that provides a great example of the association between little girls and diva-hood:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/09\/little-divas.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2929\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/09\/little-divas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Blanca!<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em>Gwen Sharp is an associate professor of sociology at Nevada State College. You can follow her on Twitter at @gwensharpnv.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took these two photos of pacifiers for sale at a Babies-R-Us in upstate New York: I hate the way we start labeling girls at a young age as high-maintenance divas who are vain, boy-crazy, and spend a lot of money. And we now start socializing infants into gendered stereotypes that portray girls in ways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,55,2099,2096],"class_list":["post-2028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-gender-femininity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2028"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71922,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2028\/revisions\/71922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}