{"id":32731,"date":"2011-01-25T13:21:13","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T18:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=32731"},"modified":"2011-11-26T19:17:23","modified_gmt":"2011-11-27T00:17:23","slug":"guest-post-women-simply-love-to-clean-with-gentlemanly-bubbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/01\/25\/guest-post-women-simply-love-to-clean-with-gentlemanly-bubbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Simply Love to Clean with Gentlemanly Bubbles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Heather Downs, an Assistant Professor at Jacksonville University, pointed out a post by Sadie Stein at Jezebel<\/a> about a recent graphic from the USA Today<\/em> Snapshots<\/a> feature; we’re pleased to repost it here, with some additional comments from me below.<\/p>\n

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Women just love, love, love housework! Says a survey. Conducted by cleaning product.<\/p>\n

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Apparently under the impression that we also believe cigarettes are soothing to the throat and little kids love laxatives, Scrubbing Bubbles<\/a> (or rather, the impartial survey they commissioned) informs us (via USA Today) that an overwhelming percentage of women in every age group “enjoy the dirty work of keeping their house clean.”<\/p>\n

Now, I know there are indeed women \u2014 and men, for that matter \u2014 who do indeed find satisfaction in the tangible rewards of cleaning (although I can’t pretend to be one of them.) But…why is this survey for and about women exclusively? Maybe because it comes from the same universe in which women \u2014 exclusively \u2014 scrub and sweep and swiffer with expressions of cheerful serenity in pastel-hued V-necks.<\/p>\n

That said, in their defense, at least as of 1978, the bubbles themselves seem to have been masculine. And do not appear to be perverts<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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[Via: Scrubbing Bubbles Says: All women are cleaning ladies<\/a> (Mislabeled)]<\/p>\n

Send an email to Sadie Stein, the author of this post, at Sadie@jezebel.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Aside from the gendered element, it’s also a great example of the conflation of marketing-type materials with the surrounding, presumably non-advertising, material. Without having to buy advertising space, Scrubbing Bubbles gets a mention next to an item that says women think cleaning is awesome!<\/em><\/p>\n

Also see how excited Kelly Ripa is to do laundry<\/a> and product placement on Days of Our Lives<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Heather Downs, an Assistant Professor at Jacksonville University, pointed out a post by Sadie Stein at Jezebel about a recent graphic from the USA Today Snapshots feature; we’re pleased to repost it here, with some additional comments from me below. ———- Women just love, love, love housework! Says a survey. Conducted by cleaning product. Apparently […]<\/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":[55,23703],"class_list":["post-32731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-marketing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32731","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=32731"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42435,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32731\/revisions\/42435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}