{"id":5766,"date":"2009-01-06T10:30:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=5766"},"modified":"2010-12-02T05:41:40","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T10:41:40","slug":"gendered-gift-suggestions-from-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/01\/06\/gendered-gift-suggestions-from-ebay\/","title":{"rendered":"Gendered Gift Suggestions from Ebay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Erin S. sent in this screencapture of a set of ebay gift suggestions:<\/p>\n

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Erin says,<\/p>\n

For her?\u00a0 A Roomba automatic vacuum!\u00a0 For him?\u00a0 A new sports car, of course!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Apparently Zunes are an androgynous gift, which is good to know.<\/p>\n

Random, non-sociological story: My ex-stepdad once got my mom a mop for their anniversary. For her birthday he got her a live mouse trap–the type that doesn’t kill them but just keeps them contained so you can take them outside. She actually liked these gifts better than the time he got them “both” a rifle for their anniversary, as a “shared” gift. Ah, romance.<\/p>\n

Thanks for the image, Erin!<\/p>\n

NEW! (July ’10):<\/strong><\/span> Carissa sent in an image of an advertisement for an eBay Coupon Event that provides suggestions for different groups. There’s a clear assumption of who would be most interested in the different categories, with the other gender thrown in as an afterthought. But it’s also an example of how we insist on dividing things by gender, even when there’s absolutely no reason to do so. If you’re acknowledging that both men and women might like everything listed, why bother to categorize them by gender at all? Why not just have\u00a0 a list under “All Categories” and leave it at that?<\/p>\n

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Erin S. sent in this screencapture of a set of ebay gift suggestions: Erin says, For her?\u00a0 A Roomba automatic vacuum!\u00a0 For him?\u00a0 A new sports car, of course! Apparently Zunes are an androgynous gift, which is good to know. Random, non-sociological story: My ex-stepdad once got my mom a mop for their anniversary. For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2096,2087,221],"class_list":["post-5766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-cars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5766"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30245,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions\/30245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}