{"id":439,"date":"2008-02-16T04:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T09:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/02\/16\/i-love-my-roomba-but\/"},"modified":"2017-09-29T22:00:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T03:00:16","slug":"i-love-my-roomba-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/02\/16\/i-love-my-roomba-but\/","title":{"rendered":"I Love My Roomba, But&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This commercial affirms the notion that only women can be expected to do housework because children and husbands are absolutely useless.<\/p>\n<p>[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4fwTtJZ6Db4[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>I find the wife&#8217;s acceptance of her husbands ass-ish behavior (still her &#8220;best friend&#8221;) particularly disheartening.<\/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>This commercial affirms the notion that only women can be expected to do housework because children and husbands are absolutely useless. [youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4fwTtJZ6Db4[\/youtube] I find the wife&#8217;s acceptance of her husbands ass-ish behavior (still her &#8220;best friend&#8221;) particularly disheartening. Lisa Wade, PhD is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of American Hookup, [&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":[155,223,55,2088,272],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animals","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-gender-marriagefamily","tag-marriagefamily"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","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=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71839,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/71839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}