{"id":40663,"date":"2012-02-19T11:53:19","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T16:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=40663"},"modified":"2017-09-17T13:21:21","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T18:21:21","slug":"elevator-shoes-for-men-the-market-responds-to-heightism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/19\/elevator-shoes-for-men-the-market-responds-to-heightism\/","title":{"rendered":"“Elevator” Shoes for Men: The Market Responds to Heightism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marketers are happy to respond to and create insecurities. \u00a0Here’s one we haven’t covered before, shoes and inserts for men that covertly increase their height:<\/p>\n

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Borrowed from\u00a0The Social Complex, a heightism blog<\/a>.\u00a0See also guest posts from The Social Complex introducing the concept of\u00a0heightism as a gendered prejudice<\/a> and discussing\u00a0heightism (and other icky stuff) at Hooters<\/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":"

Marketers are happy to respond to and create insecurities. \u00a0Here’s one we haven’t covered before, shoes and inserts for men that covertly increase their height: Borrowed from\u00a0The Social Complex, a heightism blog.\u00a0See also guest posts from The Social Complex introducing the concept of\u00a0heightism as a gendered prejudice and discussing\u00a0heightism (and other icky stuff) at Hooters. […]<\/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":[218,55,2103,2098,12467,283],"class_list":["post-40663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-gender","tag-gender-bodies","tag-gender-prejudicediscrimination","tag-heightheightism","tag-prejudicediscrimination"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40663","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=40663"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71450,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40663\/revisions\/71450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}