{"id":20633,"date":"2010-03-03T10:18:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T15:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=20633"},"modified":"2013-12-15T03:58:54","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T08:58:54","slug":"multilingual-and-knowledgeable-but-still-a-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/03\/03\/multilingual-and-knowledgeable-but-still-a-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Multilingual and Knowledgeable, But Still a “Girl”"},"content":{"rendered":"

This vintage ad is a great example of the intersection of sexism and racism. She’s there for YOU because YOU, white family, are “important”:<\/p>\n

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It’s not just the fact that she’s a multilingual, knowledgeable, helpful girl who, among other things, knows how to handle a family on the move. It’s the fact that to your JAL Ground Hostess, anywhere in the world, you’re her <\/em>passengers.<\/p>\n

We never forget how important you are.<\/strong><\/p>\n

JAPAN AIR LINES<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Source: Vintage Ads<\/a>.)<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This vintage ad is a great example of the intersection of sexism and racism. She’s there for YOU because YOU, white family, are “important”: Text: It’s not just the fact that she’s a multilingual, knowledgeable, helpful girl who, among other things, knows how to handle a family on the move. It’s the fact that to […]<\/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":[55,285,1759,307,23705],"class_list":["post-20633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-asianspacific-islanders","tag-traveltourism","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20633","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=20633"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60425,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20633\/revisions\/60425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}