{"id":25089,"date":"2010-07-11T10:11:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T15:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=25089"},"modified":"2013-12-05T05:09:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T10:09:56","slug":"the-invisibility-of-male-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/07\/11\/the-invisibility-of-male-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"The Invisibility of Male Vulnerability"},"content":{"rendered":"

Julia W. was perusing the website of an Irish car insurance company, Insure.\u00a0 The website had a special section devoted to “women drivers – driving alone<\/a>.”\u00a0 They introduce the topic like this:<\/p>\n

It is, unfortunately, a fact of life that a woman on the streets alone, whether as driver, a cyclist or a pedestrian, is vulnerable to attack. If you are driving there are some basic precautions you can take.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the site continues with a set of instructions (sampled below).\u00a0 Of course, all <\/em>drivers are vulnerable to attackers.\u00a0 Even if women are statistically more vulnerable, both men and women can benefit from taking safety precautions.\u00a0 Even the big, scary, male people are no match for a gun.\u00a0 And, yet, vulnerability itself is constructed here as uniquely female and women are seen as categorically at risk.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/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":"

Julia W. was perusing the website of an Irish car insurance company, Insure.\u00a0 The website had a special section devoted to “women drivers – driving alone.”\u00a0 They introduce the topic like this: It is, unfortunately, a fact of life that a woman on the streets alone, whether as driver, a cyclist or a pedestrian, is […]<\/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":[55,2096,2087,2090,221,293,133],"class_list":["post-25089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-gender-violence","tag-cars","tag-social-construction","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25089","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=25089"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59958,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25089\/revisions\/59958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}