{"id":38000,"date":"2011-08-21T10:00:38","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T15:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=38000"},"modified":"2013-11-09T06:14:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T11:14:28","slug":"sigh-girl-elephant-supposedly-likes-pink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/08\/21\/sigh-girl-elephant-supposedly-likes-pink\/","title":{"rendered":"Sigh: Girl Elephant Supposedly Likes Pink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love a newborn elephant as much as the next person, probably quite significantly more, but must we get all stupid and say that she likes pink? Must we, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zooborns.com\/zooborns\/2011\/07\/she-likes-pink-first-baby-elephant-in-czech-and-slovak-zoos.html\" target=\"_blank\">Zooborns<\/a>? Really? Sigh.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/17.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-38001\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/17.png\" width=\"490\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/17.png 490w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/17-110x90.png 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sent in by <a href=\"http:\/\/chloesangyal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chloe Angyal<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/feministing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Feministing<\/a>. Thanks Chloe!<\/p>\n<p>Pink, by the way, has only been associated with female humans for the last 60 years or so, and only in parts of the world. \u00a0See, for example, our posts on <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/06\/20\/history-stigma-and-changing-symbolic-meanings\/\">a vintage Father&#8217;s Birthday card<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/09\/03\/pink-and-femininity\/\">advice for mothers<\/a>. (And, while we&#8217;re at it, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/06\/28\/extreme-radical-awesome-pictures-of-kids-n-their-um-stuff\/\">this art project is pretty stunning<\/a>.) \u00a0I&#8217;m pretty sure elephants, even girl ones, are indifferent.<\/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>I love a newborn elephant as much as the next person, probably quite significantly more, but must we get all stupid and say that she likes pink? Must we, Zooborns? Really? Sigh. Sent in by Chloe Angyal at Feministing. Thanks Chloe! Pink, by the way, has only been associated with female humans for the last [&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":[155,373,55,2096],"class_list":["post-38000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animals","tag-color","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38000","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=38000"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58728,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38000\/revisions\/58728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}