{"id":44827,"date":"2012-06-24T11:30:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T16:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=44827"},"modified":"2013-11-08T04:04:59","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T09:04:59","slug":"the-make-a-wish-foundation-has-little-imagination-for-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/06\/24\/the-make-a-wish-foundation-has-little-imagination-for-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s Charities Promote Gendered Dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I snapped this photograph of a Make a Wish Foundation advertisement at the Los Angeles International Airport. \u00a0The organization aims to grant wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, in this advertisement, they pigeonhole girls into the princess role. \u00a0There are five adult males in the ad with the little boy: a soccer player, a surfer, a soldier, a man in a red hat (?), and an astronaut\u00a0(I&#8217;m assuming people imagine there is a man in that space suit). There is one female, and she looks to be a princess. \u00a0(Or maybe that&#8217;s supposed to be an option for the little boy in the ad? Somehow I don&#8217;t think so.)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/02\/2012-02-05-11.00.55.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44832\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/02\/2012-02-05-11.00.55.jpg\" width=\"336\" height=\"448\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Meanwhile, Aisha C. sent in this March of Dimes promotion, called &#8220;I&#8217;m Born To&#8230;&#8221; \u00a0It portrays children, each given a supposedly natural talent (hence, &#8220;I&#8217;m born to&#8230;&#8221;). \u00a0Each child, though, is attributed a gender stereotypical talent and future:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AjB7hrlqCIU\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/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>I snapped this photograph of a Make a Wish Foundation advertisement at the Los Angeles International Airport. \u00a0The organization aims to grant wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions. Unfortunately, in this advertisement, they pigeonhole girls into the princess role. \u00a0There are five adult males in the ad with the little boy: a soccer player, [&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":[12508,223,55,2099],"class_list":["post-44827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44827","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=44827"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58318,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44827\/revisions\/58318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}