{"id":43382,"date":"2012-12-24T12:53:18","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T17:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=43382"},"modified":"2012-12-20T21:01:19","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T02:01:19","slug":"holidays-are-a-great-time-for-men-to-buy-themselves-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/12\/24\/holidays-are-a-great-time-for-men-to-buy-themselves-stuff\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidays: A Time for Men to Buy Themselves Stuff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Tis the season where women&#8217;s workloads expand because they are held disproportionately responsible for the cleaning, decorating, cooking, card sending, gift buying, and gift wrapping involved with the holidays (e.g., you need <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/12\/24\/12-mums-makes-the-workload-light\/\" target=\"_blank\">12 mums<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/11\/25\/doing-gender-and-making-holidays\/\">6 arms<\/a> to make it all happen).<\/p>\n<p>In light of that, this &#8220;survival tip&#8221; from Ace Hardware encouraging men to buy things for themselves is especially obnoxious. \u00a0Thanks to Martha J. for sending it to us!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/01\/ace.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-43383\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/01\/ace.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/01\/ace.jpg 576w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/01\/ace-500x230.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Tis the season where women&#8217;s workloads expand because they are held disproportionately responsible for the cleaning, decorating, cooking, card sending, gift buying, and gift wrapping involved with the holidays (e.g., you need 12 mums and 6 arms to make it all happen). In light of that, this &#8220;survival tip&#8221; from Ace Hardware encouraging men to [&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":[55,2088,2100,254,272,76],"class_list":["post-43382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-marriagefamily","tag-gender-work","tag-holidays","tag-marriagefamily","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43382","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=43382"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53152,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43382\/revisions\/53152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}