{"id":36727,"date":"2011-06-19T09:01:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T14:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=36727"},"modified":"2013-11-11T02:47:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T07:47:11","slug":"we-call-it-a-menu-for-a-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/06\/19\/we-call-it-a-menu-for-a-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"“We Call It a Menu For a Reason”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Celebrate Father’s Day this year with the weird American habit of gendering food!<\/p>\n

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Let us not forget that steak = manfood. \u00a0Like catfood and dogfood, manfood must be carefully produced so as to cater to man’s natural diet. \u00a0His ancestors hunted the wild baked potato, the shy ale, and the feisty tenderloin. \u00a0Today, Manfood Inc. scientifically calibrates each and every Father’s Day dinner to man’s instinctual stomach, so you can treat your man to the best. \u00a0We call it a MENu.<\/p>\n

For more, see this vintage Campbell’s ad marketing meat for men<\/a>, the gendered menu at Brick House<\/a>, this ad campaign warning of sissified dogs<\/a>, and this extensive collection of gendered and sexualized food<\/a>. \u00a0See also this counter-example: a vintage ad arguing that vegetables make you tough and strong<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Celebrate Father’s Day this year with the weird American habit of gendering food! (source) Let us not forget that steak = manfood. \u00a0Like catfood and dogfood, manfood must be carefully produced so as to cater to man’s natural diet. \u00a0His ancestors hunted the wild baked potato, the shy ale, and the feisty tenderloin. \u00a0Today, Manfood […]<\/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":[2124,55,2087,254],"class_list":["post-36727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foodagriculture","tag-gender","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-holidays"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36727","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=36727"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58827,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36727\/revisions\/58827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}