{"id":30389,"date":"2010-12-09T14:50:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-09T19:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=30389"},"modified":"2011-11-21T02:21:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-21T07:21:38","slug":"stigmatizing-single-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/12\/09\/stigmatizing-single-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Stigmatizing Single People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a fantastic example of the way being single is stigmatized, Rachel K. took a photo of this ad she saw at a bus stop in Toronto:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/12\/ring.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30390 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/12\/ring.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"439\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m afraid this is the last post you will get from me. You see, I&#8217;m single, and it&#8217;s just occurred to me how very much my life sucks, with no one to give me sparkly things. I am going to drop everything and dedicate myself full-time to finding a mate.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, really. It&#8217;s an interesting assumption that being unmarried (I presume that&#8217;s an engagement ring) means you are &#8220;alone.&#8221; And I&#8217;d say that what sucks isn&#8217;t being &#8220;alone,&#8221; it&#8217;s being told constantly that you must be sad and miserable since you aren&#8217;t coupled up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a fantastic example of the way being single is stigmatized, Rachel K. took a photo of this ad she saw at a bus stop in Toronto: I&#8217;m afraid this is the last post you will get from me. You see, I&#8217;m single, and it&#8217;s just occurred to me how very much my life sucks, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[387,403,23384,272,265],"class_list":["post-30389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dating","tag-deviance","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-marriagefamily","tag-jewelry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30389","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30392,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30389\/revisions\/30392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}