{"id":5427,"date":"2008-12-23T02:00:55","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T07:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=5427"},"modified":"2010-12-02T05:19:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T10:19:59","slug":"moms-can-do-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/12\/23\/moms-can-do-anything\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMoms Can Do Anything\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/stevewilsonblog.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen W.<\/a> sent us a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/walmart\" target=\"_blank\">Walmart YouTube channel<\/a> that\u00a0recreates the supermom mythology.\u00a0 The website encourages moms to submit videos of themselves explaining how they&#8217;ve figured out how to save money while shopping, cooking, and cleaning.\u00a0 The website reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>With creativity, ingenuity, and Walmart&#8217;s unbeatable prices.\u00a0 Moms can do anything.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(I bet they can&#8217;t coupon us out of this economic crisis though.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a screen shot:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/12\/capture9.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5428\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/12\/capture9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My first thought was: So apparently the wife is the one\u00a0doing all the spending and, if she is a\u00a0good little wife, she&#8217;s frugal and makes her husband&#8217;s hard-earned money go further.\u00a0 This would reproduce the husband as money-earner\/wife as money-spender stereotype.<\/p>\n<p>But then I realized: There&#8217;s no mention a dad or any earner anywhere on the front page.\u00a0 It&#8217;s nothin&#8217; but moms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen W. sent us a link to a Walmart YouTube channel that\u00a0recreates the supermom mythology.\u00a0 The website encourages moms to submit videos of themselves explaining how they&#8217;ve figured out how to save money while shopping, cooking, and cleaning.\u00a0 The website reads: With creativity, ingenuity, and Walmart&#8217;s unbeatable prices.\u00a0 Moms can do anything. (I bet they [&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":[36,55,2105,2088,272],"class_list":["post-5427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-gender","tag-gender-economics","tag-gender-marriagefamily","tag-marriagefamily"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427","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=5427"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30211,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5427\/revisions\/30211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}