{"id":20369,"date":"2010-02-13T10:56:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-13T15:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=20369"},"modified":"2013-12-15T04:11:19","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T09:11:19","slug":"vday-an-opportunity-to-remind-us-that-we-are-opposite-sexes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/13\/vday-an-opportunity-to-remind-us-that-we-are-opposite-sexes\/","title":{"rendered":"VDay: An Opportunity To Remind Us That We Are Opposite Sexes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marie-Claire has been seeing these movie posters for <em>Valentine&#8217;s Day<\/em> all over Toronto and decided to send them in. She writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Hollywood manages to keep a firm grip on the roles men and women play in society (working vs being worshiped), how they spend their time (being social, doing active\/productive thing vs passive consumption and adorning themselves), and how they feel about Valentine&#8217;s Day (what day is it? The best day of the year!)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Cards.\u00a0 Candy.\u00a0 Flowers.\u00a0 Jewelry.\u00a0 Dinner.\u00a0 &#8230;What a day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/13\/vday-an-opportunity-to-remind-us-that-we-are-opposite-sexes\/vday_movie_poster_female\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20370\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20370\" title=\"vday_movie_poster_female\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/02\/vday_movie_poster_female-736x1024.gif\" width=\"406\" height=\"564\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/02\/vday_movie_poster_female-736x1024.gif 736w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/02\/vday_movie_poster_female-359x500.gif 359w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 406px) 100vw, 406px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Work.\u00a0 Business lunch.\u00a0 Trainer.\u00a0 Happy Hour.\u00a0 Ballgame.\u00a0 &#8230;What day is it again?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/13\/vday-an-opportunity-to-remind-us-that-we-are-opposite-sexes\/vday-movie_poster-men\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20371\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20371\" title=\"vday-movie_poster-men\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/02\/vday-movie_poster-men-721x1024.gif\" width=\"422\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/02\/vday-movie_poster-men-721x1024.gif 721w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/02\/vday-movie_poster-men-352x500.gif 352w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/02\/vday-movie_poster-men.gif 1832w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/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>Marie-Claire has been seeing these movie posters for Valentine&#8217;s Day all over Toronto and decided to send them in. She writes: &#8230;Hollywood manages to keep a firm grip on the roles men and women play in society (working vs being worshiped), how they spend their time (being social, doing active\/productive thing vs passive consumption and [&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":[55,254,343],"class_list":["post-20369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-holidays","tag-tvmovies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20369","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=20369"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60471,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20369\/revisions\/60471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}