{"id":5490,"date":"2008-12-24T02:15:29","date_gmt":"2008-12-24T07:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=5490"},"modified":"2010-12-02T05:17:30","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T10:17:30","slug":"what-kind-of-woman-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/12\/24\/what-kind-of-woman-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What Kind of Woman are You?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In The Gendered Society<\/a><\/em>, Michael Kimmel argues that women often have to be very careful how they dress, lest they be seen as too frumpy, too old, too slutty, too smart, trying to hard, etc.\u00a0 In comparison, men can often just go as a guy.<\/p>\n

Two examples:<\/p>\n

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Nancy: The invitation says black tie, I guess you’ll wear your tux?<\/p>\n

Frank: Yup.<\/p>\n

Nancy: Mr. Easy.\u00a0 Once choice, one look.\u00a0 I have to ponder endless combinations of hair, makeup, gowns, shoes, jewelry.\u00a0 I have to decide if I want to look sultry, subdued, glittery, basic, bright, dark, modern, traditional…<\/p>\n

Frank: Hon, who do you want to please?<\/p>\n

Nancy: You, of course.<\/p>\n

Frank: I stopped listening after “sultry.”\u00a0 There, Mr. Easy to the rescue.<\/p>\n

Nancy: Gee, thanks.\u00a0 Sultry’s the hardest one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The fact that women can’t just be a “person” at the bar or the black tie event is related to the fact that women are a marked category, while men are culturally neutral.\u00a0 That is, women are women and men are people.\u00a0 For more posts on this idea related to gender and other categories, see this post on toys for kids<\/a> and our post on that famous real bodies exhibit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(I found the first image here<\/a>; the LuAnn cartoon was given to me by Myra M. F.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In The Gendered Society, Michael Kimmel argues that women often have to be very careful how they dress, lest they be seen as too frumpy, too old, too slutty, too smart, trying to hard, etc.\u00a0 In comparison, men can often just go as a guy. Two examples: Nancy: The invitation says black tie, I guess […]<\/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":[225,55,2096,2087],"class_list":["post-5490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clothesfashion","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-masculinity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490","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=5490"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30208,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5490\/revisions\/30208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}