{"id":52355,"date":"2012-10-31T14:37:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T19:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=52355"},"modified":"2012-10-31T14:38:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T19:38:30","slug":"policeman-vs-police-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/10\/31\/policeman-vs-police-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"“Policeman” vs. “Police Girl”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A few years back I posted an photograph of two costumes side-by-side: labeled “Beer Man<\/em>” and “Beer Girl<\/em>.”<\/a>\u00a0 I wrote that the practice of using “man” alongside “girl” “reinforces a gender hierarchy by mapping it onto age.” \u00a0We see this outside of a Halloween context too, like in\u00a0this vintage ad for pens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sara P. found another example, this time from\u00a0iparty<\/a>. \u00a0The flyer puts a girl and a boy side-by-side in police officer costumes. \u00a0The boy’s is labeled “policeman” and the girl’s is labeled “police girl.”<\/p>\n

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This phenomenon is an example of just how mundane and ubiquitous gender messages can be.<\/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":"

A few years back I posted an photograph of two costumes side-by-side: labeled “Beer Man” and “Beer Girl.”\u00a0 I wrote that the practice of using “man” alongside “girl” “reinforces a gender hierarchy by mapping it onto age.” \u00a0We see this outside of a Halloween context too, like in\u00a0this vintage ad for pens. Sara P. found […]<\/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":[23384,55,2098,254,283],"class_list":["post-52355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-gender","tag-gender-prejudicediscrimination","tag-holidays","tag-prejudicediscrimination"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52355","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=52355"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52359,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52355\/revisions\/52359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}