{"id":24519,"date":"2010-06-22T10:30:33","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T15:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=24519"},"modified":"2013-12-05T05:19:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T10:19:11","slug":"consumerist-teethers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/06\/22\/consumerist-teethers\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumerist Teethers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Raluca-Elena, I am now disturbed to discover that the makers of <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/09\/10\/high-heels-for-babies\/\" target=\"_self\">heelarious, fake high heels for infant girls<\/a>, are now selling <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heelarious.com\/bubble_gum.php\" target=\"_blank\">teethers in the shape of a credit card<\/a> with the name &#8220;Ima Spender.&#8221; Get it?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/06\/Capture2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24521\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/06\/Capture2.jpg\" width=\"382\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s train those girls to consume above their means before they even get their first teeth!<\/p>\n<p>Okay okay, infants aren&#8217;t going to get the joke. But why is it so funny to encourage infant girls to grow up to be shallow, gold digging, divas?\u00a0 Or is this me stereotyping the high-fashion-conscious?<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Raluca-Elena, I am now disturbed to discover that the makers of heelarious, fake high heels for infant girls, are now selling teethers in the shape of a credit card with the name &#8220;Ima Spender.&#8221; Get it? Let&#8217;s train those girls to consume above their means before they even get their first teeth! Okay [&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":[223,225,229,55,2099],"class_list":["post-24519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-clothesfashion","tag-consumption","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24519","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=24519"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60000,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24519\/revisions\/60000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}