{"id":57472,"date":"2013-10-13T12:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-10-13T17:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=57472"},"modified":"2013-10-13T14:10:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T19:10:22","slug":"the-gender-of-trophies-coaches-and-team-moms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/10\/13\/the-gender-of-trophies-coaches-and-team-moms\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gender of Trophies: Coaches and Team Moms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ann K. noticed something funny about the products sold at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.noveltytrophies.com\/store\/coach.php\" target=\"_blank\">Novelty Trophies<\/a>. \u00a0The ones available for the adults involved were split into two categories: Coach and Team Mom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/10\/Screenshot_31.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-57474\" alt=\"Screenshot_3\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/10\/Screenshot_31-500x133.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/10\/Screenshot_31-500x133.png 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/10\/Screenshot_31.png 693w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To be fair, they had a female coach option, but there was nothing for Team Dads. \u00a0This is consistent with the norm in society that women are allowed to be masculine (be knowledgeable about sports), but men are not allowed to be feminine (caretake a team). Notice also the artificial <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/07\/14\/gendered-fantasy-sexual-dimorphism-in-world-of-warcraft\/\" target=\"_blank\">gender<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/05\/29\/tangled-up-in-disneys-dimorphism\/\" target=\"_blank\">dimorphism<\/a>: her tiny body compared to his.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/10\/Screenshot_15.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-57473\" alt=\"Screenshot_1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/10\/Screenshot_15-500x168.png\" width=\"500\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/10\/Screenshot_15-500x168.png 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/10\/Screenshot_15.png 690w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just another everyday, mundane, rather boring example of the constant reminders of who men and women are supposed to be.<\/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>Ann K. noticed something funny about the products sold at Novelty Trophies. \u00a0The ones available for the adults involved were split into two categories: Coach and Team Mom. To be fair, they had a female coach option, but there was nothing for Team Dads. \u00a0This is consistent with the norm in society that women are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":57631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,8092,10514,108],"class_list":["post-57472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-sports","tag-leisure","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/10\/Screenshot_115.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57472","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=57472"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57632,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57472\/revisions\/57632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}