{"id":38867,"date":"2011-09-15T10:41:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-15T15:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=38867"},"modified":"2013-11-09T05:57:17","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T10:57:17","slug":"daisy-rock-guitars-or-why-size-is-a-better-measure-than-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/09\/15\/daisy-rock-guitars-or-why-size-is-a-better-measure-than-sex\/","title":{"rendered":"Daisy Rock Guitars: Why Size is a Better Measure than Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victoria and Paul (a sociologist from the University of Turku, Finland)\u00a0sent in an ad for a woman’s guitar that nicely illustrates the way that we unnecessarily gender size difference. \u00a0The Daisy Rock ad specifies that the guitar is “lighter weight,” with a “slimmer neck,” and designed exclusively for women<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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On the one hand, this guitar may be great for women who are on the smaller side. \u00a0In that sense, a smaller guitar may make it easier for more women to play guitar.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, size is only related <\/em>to gender, it’s not synonymous <\/em>with gender. \u00a0There are women who are built in such a way as to make a traditional guitar perfect. \u00a0And there are men on the smaller side who may also benefit from a guitar built for slighter frames. The mistake is to suggest that small = female and large = male. \u00a0In contrast to this girl-only company, one that simply offered guitars in different sizes would be embracing of both women and the 1\/2 of guys on the smaller side of the bell curve.<\/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":"

Victoria and Paul (a sociologist from the University of Turku, Finland)\u00a0sent in an ad for a woman’s guitar that nicely illustrates the way that we unnecessarily gender size difference. \u00a0The Daisy Rock ad specifies that the guitar is “lighter weight,” with a “slimmer neck,” and designed exclusively for women: On the one hand, this guitar […]<\/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":[218,55,2103,23703],"class_list":["post-38867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-gender","tag-gender-bodies","tag-marketing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38867","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=38867"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58694,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38867\/revisions\/58694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}