{"id":35256,"date":"2011-04-14T10:59:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T15:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=35256"},"modified":"2013-11-11T03:36:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T08:36:56","slug":"turbotax-maps-out-my-conventional-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/04\/14\/turbotax-maps-out-my-conventional-future\/","title":{"rendered":"TurboTax Maps Out My (Conventional) Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While preparing my taxes &#8212; on April 13th on the dot, like every year! &#8212; I came across a screen that reminded me of a post I&#8217;d written about lifecourse assumptions. \u00a0The post featured a slideshow with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/11\/13\/illustrating-a-normal-lifecourse\/\">birth control advice with very rigid age-based expectations<\/a>. \u00a0Turns out, Turbo Tax has some similar ideas. \u00a0As I finished up my returns, it announced that it was ready for what would come next in my life. It knows I&#8217;m single, rent, and have no dependents so&#8230; married, house, and kid (obvi!).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/129.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35257\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/129.jpg\" width=\"554\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/129.jpg 693w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/129-500x290.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 554px) 100vw, 554px\" \/><\/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>While preparing my taxes &#8212; on April 13th on the dot, like every year! &#8212; I came across a screen that reminded me of a post I&#8217;d written about lifecourse assumptions. \u00a0The post featured a slideshow with\u00a0birth control advice with very rigid age-based expectations. \u00a0Turns out, Turbo Tax has some similar ideas. \u00a0As I finished [&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":[349,8080,272,293],"class_list":["post-35256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ageaging","tag-housingresidential-segregation","tag-marriagefamily","tag-social-construction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35256","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=35256"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58927,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35256\/revisions\/58927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}