Eliza had noted that, while the male figure was walking more-or-less directly towards the viewer, the female figure was standing with her torso contorted and her hip cocked.<\/p>\n Likewise, @low_hana sent us this screenshot<\/a> of DC Comics Underoos available for sale. Men are posed like, well, superheroes, but the women twist, fiddle, and turn their backs:<\/p>\n Now, this might seem like a small thing, and unimpressive in the singular. \u00a0But, in fact, we see this kind of thing all the time, even in ostensibly objective medical textbooks and anatomy illustrations<\/a>. \u00a0We even see it when only faces are involved, as in this series of movie posters featuring men looking straight at the camera and women looking askance<\/a>. \u00a0Here’s one example:<\/p>\n As these types of images add up in our subconscious, they tell us a story about masculinity and femininity. \u00a0It’s a complicated one, but might include lessons like this: men face things head on, while women are uncertain; women pose and men take action; \u00a0men are straightforward, women sly.<\/p>\n Thanks Caroline, for sending in another example of such an insidious and largely invisible cultural pattern. \u00a0And great job, Eliza, for spotting it!<\/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 reader named Caroline sent in a really nice email. \u00a0“I just wanted to tell you – again,” she wrote, “how much of an impression you’ve made on my 17yo daughter Eliza.” \u00a0She explains that they’d been reading SocImages together for “years (yes, years!).” \u00a0We can’t express how much that means to us! Caroline was […]<\/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":[218,279,55,2103,2093,293,23622],"class_list":["post-54024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-objectification","tag-gender","tag-gender-bodies","tag-gender-objectification","tag-social-construction","tag-social-construction-symbols"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54024","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=54024"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65077,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54024\/revisions\/65077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"1\"](\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/02\/12.jpg\")
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