{"id":34077,"date":"2011-03-03T15:07:53","date_gmt":"2011-03-03T20:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=34077"},"modified":"2015-09-20T23:29:21","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T04:29:21","slug":"disneyland-the-happiest-place-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/03\/disneyland-the-happiest-place-on-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Disneyland, The Happiest Place on Earth?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disneyland markets itself as &#8220;The Happiest Place on Earth&#8221; and goes to great pains to create a visual experience that defies our everyday realities, but these <a href=\"http:\/\/arinfishkin.com\/fishkin_delayed_gratification.html\" target=\"_blank\">photos by Arin Fishkin<\/a>, of bored kids waiting in line, contrasts starkly with Disney&#8217;s claims. \u00a0 I&#8217;ve always thought it was really interesting how companies that sell &#8220;fun&#8221; (theme parks, obviously, but also places like casinos and dance clubs) do so by downright insisting &#8220;this is what fun looks like!&#8221; \u00a0 &#8220;There are flashing lights! Fun! There are bright colors! Fun! There is happy music! Fun! This is what fun looks like and you are having it!!!&#8221; \u00a0Anyway, just because Disneyland says it&#8217;s fun, doesn&#8217;t mean it is.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/02\/22\/photos-of-kids-waiti.html\" target=\"_blank\">BoingBoing<\/a>.<\/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>Disneyland markets itself as &#8220;The Happiest Place on Earth&#8221; and goes to great pains to create a visual experience that defies our everyday realities, but these photos by Arin Fishkin, of bored kids waiting in line, contrasts starkly with Disney&#8217;s claims. \u00a0 I&#8217;ve always thought it was really interesting how companies that sell &#8220;fun&#8221; (theme [&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":[223,329,23703],"class_list":["post-34077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-emotion","tag-marketing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34077","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=34077"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68023,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34077\/revisions\/68023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}