{"id":24140,"date":"2010-06-13T10:41:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T15:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=24140"},"modified":"2013-12-06T03:02:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-06T08:02:50","slug":"mens-girls-and-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/06\/13\/mens-girls-and-kids\/","title":{"rendered":"“Mens,” “Girls,” and “Kids”"},"content":{"rendered":"

JustReading sent along a screenshot of the “shop” tab at Etnies.com<\/a>.\u00a0 It separates their products into “mens,” “girls,” and “kids” (the grammar mistake is theirs too).<\/p>\n

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So, yeah, men are men and women are girls.\u00a0 We’ve featured more examples of this phenomenon: a vintage ad for “girl” pens<\/a> and “Beer Man” and “Beer Girl” Halloween costumes<\/a>.\u00a0 Listen also to Bob Barker’s creepy girl talk<\/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":"

JustReading sent along a screenshot of the “shop” tab at Etnies.com.\u00a0 It separates their products into “mens,” “girls,” and “kids” (the grammar mistake is theirs too). So, yeah, men are men and women are girls.\u00a0 We’ve featured more examples of this phenomenon: a vintage ad for “girl” pens and “Beer Man” and “Beer Girl” Halloween […]<\/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":[225,23384,55],"class_list":["post-24140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clothesfashion","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-gender"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24140","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=24140"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60079,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24140\/revisions\/60079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}