{"id":20741,"date":"2010-03-02T10:24:03","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T15:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=20741"},"modified":"2013-12-15T03:59:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T08:59:17","slug":"good-girls-eat-spinach-wraps-bad-girls-eat-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/03\/02\/good-girls-eat-spinach-wraps-bad-girls-eat-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Girls Eat Spinach Wraps; Bad Girls Eat Everything"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mickey C. sent in this ad for the convenience store, Racetrac.\u00a0 It’s fascinating in how overtly they take the good girl\/bad girl dichotomy and apply it to food.\u00a0\u00a0 You are a good girl if you eat fruit, white meat sandwiches, and spinach wraps; you are a bad girl if you drink soda and eat cookies and hot dogs.<\/p>\n

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This is a narrative that we largely take-for-granted.\u00a0 We are bad when we “indulge” in “sinfully” delicious treats and good when we do not.\u00a0 Parallel is the narrative: you are a good girl if you resist your desires, a bad girl if you do not.<\/p>\n

It reminds me of an NPR audio slide show about teenagers trying to lose weight<\/a>who confess, with guilt and glee, one night of indulgence at Taco Bell.\u00a0 It’s not sinful to have a cookie, for goodness sake, or to eat at Taco Bell now and again.\u00a0 And women cannot be separated into heaven-bound angels and hell-bound broads.<\/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":"

Mickey C. sent in this ad for the convenience store, Racetrac.\u00a0 It’s fascinating in how overtly they take the good girl\/bad girl dichotomy and apply it to food.\u00a0\u00a0 You are a good girl if you eat fruit, white meat sandwiches, and spinach wraps; you are a bad girl if you drink soda and eat cookies […]<\/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":[23384,2124,55,2096],"class_list":["post-20741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-foodagriculture","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20741","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=20741"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60428,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20741\/revisions\/60428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}