{"id":495,"date":"2008-03-06T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-06T05:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/06\/while-the-women-are-enhancing-the-men-are-reducing\/"},"modified":"2017-09-16T15:01:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T20:01:29","slug":"while-the-women-are-enhancing-the-men-are-reducing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/06\/while-the-women-are-enhancing-the-men-are-reducing\/","title":{"rendered":"While The Women Are Enhancing, The Men Are Reducing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since we&#8217;re on a plastic surgery kick&#8230;according to members of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticsurgery.org\/\">American Society of Plastic Surgery<\/a>, breast reduction is the most common cosmetic procedure among 13-19 year olds (girls and boys combined). Members performed 17,269 in 2006. A set of photos available\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gynecomastianewyork.com\/\">here<\/a>\u00a0shows is how trivial the difference is between the before and after pictures. These men were diagnosed with &#8220;moderate&#8221; gynecomastia. The belief that men are flat chested and women are breasted is not based in biology. In reality, there is a great deal more overlap between men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s bodies than we&#8217;re comfortable with&#8230; so off to the plastic surgeon.<\/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>Since we&#8217;re on a plastic surgery kick&#8230;according to members of the American Society of Plastic Surgery, breast reduction is the most common cosmetic procedure among 13-19 year olds (girls and boys combined). Members performed 17,269 in 2006. A set of photos available\u00a0here\u00a0shows is how trivial the difference is between the before and after pictures. These [&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":[664,218,230,55,2103,2087,293],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biology","tag-bodies","tag-cosmetic-surgery","tag-gender","tag-gender-bodies","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-social-construction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","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=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70627,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/70627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}