{"id":21393,"date":"2010-03-11T10:15:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T15:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=21393"},"modified":"2013-12-15T03:50:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T08:50:41","slug":"welcome-women-to-your-special-section","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/03\/11\/welcome-women-to-your-special-section\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, Women, To Your Special Section"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reader Clifford McC. and his (female) partner both receive Bicycling <\/em>magazine (which, he explains, is more of a free advertisement that they get whether they want to or not).\u00a0 In any case, this month’s issue was the 2010 Buyer’s Guide and, though the issues each received were identical, the one addressed to his partner was stickered:<\/p>\n

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The sticker read, “BONUS! SPECIAL WOMEN’S SECTION.”<\/p>\n

Perhaps they were trying to be inclusive, but a sticker advertising a special women’s section<\/em> just goes to show that the magazine is, first-and-foremost, for men.<\/p>\n

For the same phenomenon elsewhere, see our posts featuring websites selling dinosaur toys<\/a> and Legos<\/a>(see “exhibit three”), each with a special section for girls.<\/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":"

Reader Clifford McC. and his (female) partner both receive Bicycling magazine (which, he explains, is more of a free advertisement that they get whether they want to or not).\u00a0 In any case, this month’s issue was the 2010 Buyer’s Guide and, though the issues each received were identical, the one addressed to his partner was […]<\/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":[55,23703,108,307],"class_list":["post-21393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-marketing","tag-sports","tag-traveltourism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21393","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=21393"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60399,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21393\/revisions\/60399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}