{"id":37504,"date":"2011-07-15T09:29:24","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T14:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=37504"},"modified":"2011-11-02T20:10:21","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T01:10:21","slug":"come-for-the-ladies-stay-for-the-legends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/07\/15\/come-for-the-ladies-stay-for-the-legends\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Come for the Ladies, Stay for the Legends&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsay C., Christie W., and Dolores R. sent in an ad for the Rogers Cup as well as the Rogers Legends Cup (a new event that isn&#8217;t specifically named in the ad) that succinctly sums up the tendency to downplay female athletes&#8217; achievements and treat them as less serious athletes than men. You might come to watch the &#8220;ladies,&#8221; but it&#8217;s the men who are the legends you should really stick around to see (via <a href=\"http:\/\/feministing.com\/2011\/07\/13\/rogers-cup-come-for-the-ladies-stay-for-the-legends\/\" target=\"_blank\">Feministing<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/3413459621.jpeg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-37505\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/3413459621-373x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"373\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/3413459621-373x500.jpg 373w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/3413459621.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 373px) 100vw, 373px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After a number of complaints, Tennis Canada released an apology and a revised version of the ad (via <a href=\"http:\/\/maddowblog.msnbc.msn.com\/_news\/2011\/07\/14\/7077424-come-for-the-ladies\" target=\"_blank\">The Maddow Blog<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/imagesizer.jpeg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-37506\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/imagesizer-347x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/imagesizer-347x500.jpg 347w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/imagesizer.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Really, it&#8217;s possible to advertise both men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s events without appearing to belittle one of them. It&#8217;s not that hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsay C., Christie W., and Dolores R. sent in an ad for the Rogers Cup as well as the Rogers Legends Cup (a new event that isn&#8217;t specifically named in the ad) that succinctly sums up the tendency to downplay female athletes&#8217; achievements and treat them as less serious athletes than men. You might come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,8092,108],"class_list":["post-37504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-sports","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37504","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37504"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37508,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37504\/revisions\/37508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}