{"id":52253,"date":"2012-10-28T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=52253"},"modified":"2012-10-31T14:31:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T19:31:01","slug":"guy-guy-couples-costumes-at-party-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/10\/28\/guy-guy-couples-costumes-at-party-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Non-Heteronormative Couples Costumes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I posted about how “couples costumes” seemed to inevitably include a man and a woman<\/a>. \u00a0Since then I found one top listed online costume seller that doesn’t follow this heteronormative trend, PartyCity<\/a>. \u00a0While most are male\/female, here are four of the couples costumes they feature:<\/p>\n

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Interestingly, I didn’t see any costumes for two women, which is consistent with the lesser visibility of lesbians relative to gay men (if<\/em>, of course, that’s part of Party City’s logic for offering guy-guy costumes in the first place).<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/strong>: Sara P. found an online flyer for iparty<\/a> that had both guy\/guy and one girl\/girl “double the fun” costumes:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/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":"

Yesterday I posted about how “couples costumes” seemed to inevitably include a man and a woman. \u00a0Since then I found one top listed online costume seller that doesn’t follow this heteronormative trend, PartyCity. \u00a0While most are male\/female, here are four of the couples costumes they feature: Interestingly, I didn’t see any costumes for two women, […]<\/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":[55,254,54],"class_list":["post-52253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-holidays","tag-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52253","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=52253"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52334,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52253\/revisions\/52334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}