{"id":56849,"date":"2013-08-25T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T17:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=56849"},"modified":"2013-08-25T14:30:16","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T19:30:16","slug":"men-are-people-and-women-are-women-the-home-depot-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/08\/25\/men-are-people-and-women-are-women-the-home-depot-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Men are People and Women are Women: The Home Depot Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/colleeneliza\/status\/365115670620409856\" target=\"_blank\">@colleeneliza<\/a> for tweeting us this great example of the centering of masculinity as &#8220;normal&#8221; and the othering of women. \u00a0Notice that <a href=\"http:\/\/workshops.homedepot.com\/workshops\/?pn=HT_WS_WeeklyWorkshops?cm_sp=Homepage-_-8_1-_-Row1_C-_-Free_Kids_Workshops\" target=\"_blank\">Home Depot<\/a> is offering &#8220;Do-It-Yourself&#8221; workshops and special workshops for women and kids (screenshot taken 8\/18\/13):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/08\/Screenshot_126.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-56853\" alt=\"Screenshot_1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/08\/Screenshot_126.png\" width=\"574\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/08\/Screenshot_126.png 957w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/08\/Screenshot_126-500x379.png 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/08\/Screenshot_126-230x175.png 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is just one more example of the way in which men are regarded as people and women as a special kind of person. Like kids, in this case, needing special treatment. \u00a0We&#8217;ve got <a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/socimages\/women-vs-people\/\" target=\"_blank\">lots of them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to @colleeneliza for tweeting us this great example of the centering of masculinity as &#8220;normal&#8221; and the othering of women. \u00a0Notice that Home Depot is offering &#8220;Do-It-Yourself&#8221; workshops and special workshops for women and kids (screenshot taken 8\/18\/13): This is just one more example of the way in which men are regarded as people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":56892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[23384,55,2098,283,293],"class_list":["post-56849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-gender","tag-gender-prejudicediscrimination","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-social-construction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/08\/Screenshot_213.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56849","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=56849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56855,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56849\/revisions\/56855"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}