{"id":36875,"date":"2011-06-19T11:45:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-19T16:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=36875"},"modified":"2015-09-01T21:27:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T02:27:49","slug":"google-says-happy-fathers-day-to-the-middle-class-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/06\/19\/google-says-happy-fathers-day-to-the-middle-class-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Father&#8217;s Day to Middle-Class Breadwinners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a> often creatively alters its logo to honor important days on the calendar. \u00a0Today the logo references Father&#8217;s Day by turning the &#8220;l&#8221; in Google into a tie. \u00a0John McMahon did a fine job of discussing <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/06\/19\/representations-of-gender-in-fathers-day-cards\/\" target=\"_blank\">how Father&#8217;s Day cards tap into stereotypes about masculinity<\/a>, but I thought this was interesting in its reference of a particular kind of work. \u00a0The tie isn&#8217;t a generic masculine symbol, but a class-specific one.<\/p>\n<p>More, it ties fatherhood into the idea of being a breadwinner. \u00a0What is significant about a Dad? \u00a0The fact that he works so hard for the family. \u00a0Can you imagine a Mother&#8217;s Day symbol emphasizing her workplace instead of her time at home?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/06\/Google.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36877\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/06\/Google.png\" width=\"542\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/06\/Google.png 774w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/06\/Google-500x177.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/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>Google often creatively alters its logo to honor important days on the calendar. \u00a0Today the logo references Father&#8217;s Day by turning the &#8220;l&#8221; in Google into a tie. \u00a0John McMahon did a fine job of discussing how Father&#8217;s Day cards tap into stereotypes about masculinity, but I thought this was interesting in its reference of [&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":[55,2087,254,778,23694],"class_list":["post-36875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-holidays","tag-intersectionality","tag-intersectionality-gender-x-class"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36875","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=36875"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58826,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36875\/revisions\/58826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}