{"id":23910,"date":"2010-06-11T10:03:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T15:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=23910"},"modified":"2012-07-08T01:24:51","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T06:24:51","slug":"a-cop-car-for-you-little-police-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/06\/11\/a-cop-car-for-you-little-police-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cop Car for you Little PoliceMAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan was browsing the Walmart website for a toy for his soon-to-be one-year-old child and happened upon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmart.com\/ip\/Cozy-Coupe-30th-Anniversary-Tikes-Patrol-Ride-On\/13012222\" target=\"_blank\">this play cop car<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/06\/11\/a-cop-car-for-you-little-police-boy\/capture-116\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23912\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23912\" title=\"Capture\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/Capture7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/Capture7.jpg 425w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/Capture7-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both boys and girls can aspire to be cops, of course, but the specifications on the product insist that it is for boys:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/06\/11\/a-cop-car-for-you-little-police-boy\/2-58\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-23911\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23911\" title=\"2\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/05\/29.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">See also our post in which <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/01\/09\/socialization-and-gendered-job-segregation\/\" target=\"_self\">the exact same toy is marketed to boys as a doctor&#8217;s kit and to girls as a nurse&#8217;s kit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan was browsing the Walmart website for a toy for his soon-to-be one-year-old child and happened upon this play cop car: Both boys and girls can aspire to be cops, of course, but the specifications on the product insist that it is for boys: See also our post in which the exact same toy is [&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":[223,55,2099,1711],"class_list":["post-23910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-toysgames"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23910","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=23910"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49382,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23910\/revisions\/49382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}