{"id":34547,"date":"2011-04-03T10:20:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-03T15:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=34547"},"modified":"2013-11-11T03:40:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T08:40:35","slug":"gendered-slurs-at-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/04\/03\/gendered-slurs-at-google\/","title":{"rendered":"Gendered Slurs at the New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Men and women are told, in a myriad of daily ways, that being masculine is good and feminine bad. It sneaks into our daily language in ways that are so common that we fail to even see it anymore. For example, a recent <em>New York Times<\/em> article about Google&#8217;s effort to determine what makes managers successful featured <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/13\/business\/13hire.html?_r=2&amp;src=busln&amp;pagewanted=all\" target=\"_blank\">a list, written by Google<em>,<\/em> of what makes a good boss<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><del>I noticed that they added<\/del> The<em> New York Times<\/em> added the phrase &#8220;Don&#8217;t be a sissy&#8221; to &#8220;Good Behavior&#8221; #4. \u00a0It reads &#8220;Don&#8217;t be a sissy: Be productive and results-oriented.&#8221; \u00a0 It&#8217;s the only Good Behavior that includes a derisive slur. And while I&#8217;m accustomed to seeing terms like &#8220;sissy&#8221; thrown around as insults, it occurred to me that the very next rule #5, &#8220;Be a good communicator and listen to your team,&#8221; could easily have been prefaced with &#8220;Don&#8217;t be a man.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But being a &#8220;sissy&#8221; (that is, feminine) is something that we can all agree is bad, while being a man is good. \u00a0So, even when the rules suggest that men take on feminized traits, they&#8217;re unlikely to adorn the suggestion with a denigration of masculinity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/03\/13.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-34551\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/03\/13.png\" width=\"545\" height=\"836\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/03\/13.png 545w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/03\/13-325x500.png 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Via Teppo at <a href=\"http:\/\/orgtheory.wordpress.com\/2011\/03\/17\/googles-effort-to-build-a-better-boss\/\" target=\"_blank\">OrgTheory<\/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>Men and women are told, in a myriad of daily ways, that being masculine is good and feminine bad. It sneaks into our daily language in ways that are so common that we fail to even see it anymore. For example, a recent New York Times article about Google&#8217;s effort to determine what makes managers [&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":[23384,55,2096,2087,2098,283],"class_list":["post-34547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-gender-prejudicediscrimination","tag-prejudicediscrimination"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34547","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=34547"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58214,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34547\/revisions\/58214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}