{"id":42976,"date":"2011-12-18T14:30:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-18T19:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=42976"},"modified":"2013-11-06T15:23:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T20:23:05","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-reveals-the-rules-of-gift-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/12\/18\/jimmy-kimmel-reveals-the-rules-of-gift-giving\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel Reveals the Rules of Gift Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Late Night TV host Jimmy Kimmel encouraged his viewers to film their children getting early Christmas presents that they would surely hate. \u00a0The result is a collection of children acting badly: bursting into tears, saying they hate their parents, lecturing them on proper gift giving protocol, etc. \u00a0It’s funny and also a great illustration of the gift-giving rules that Theodore Caplow meticulously lists in his article, Rule Enforcement Without Visible Means: Christmas Gift Giving in Middletown<\/a>\u00a0(pdf<\/a>) (btw: this is the very first article I assign in Soc101<\/a>).<\/p>\n

(UPDATE<\/strong>: I was quoted briefly on this phenomenon in a New York Times<\/em> story on the prank<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

In a number of cases, the gift is considered bad because the recipient is a boy and the gift is for a girl. \u00a0One boy, for example, gets a Hello Kitty gift, another gets a pop star-themed coloring book. \u00a0The boys’ reaction at being presented with a girls’ gift reveals their internalization of androcentrism, the idea that masculinity is superior to femininity. \u00a0 They express both disgust and, in some cases I think, fear at being poisoned by contact — especially such personal contact as “I got this for you<\/em>” — with girlness.<\/p>\n

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More posts on androcentrism:\u00a0\u201cwoman\u201d as an insult<\/a>, being a girl is degrading<\/a>,\u00a0making it manly: how to sell a car<\/a>, good god don\u2019t let men have\u00a0long hair<\/a>,\u00a0don\u2019t forget to hug like a dude<\/a>,\u00a0saving men from their (feminine) selves<\/a>,\u00a0men must eschew femininity<\/a>,\u00a0not impressed with Buzz Lightyear commercial<\/a>,\u00a0dinosaurs can\u2019t be for girls<\/a>, and\u00a0sissy men are so uncool<\/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":"

Late Night TV host Jimmy Kimmel encouraged his viewers to film their children getting early Christmas presents that they would surely hate. \u00a0The result is a collection of children acting badly: bursting into tears, saying they hate their parents, lecturing them on proper gift giving protocol, etc. \u00a0It’s funny and also a great illustration of […]<\/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":[223,15,55,2099,254,2051],"class_list":["post-42976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-culture","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-holidays","tag-socialization"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42976","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=42976"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58161,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42976\/revisions\/58161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}