{"id":57745,"date":"2013-10-20T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=57745"},"modified":"2013-10-31T03:38:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T08:38:43","slug":"google-search-reveals-what-people-really-think-about-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/10\/20\/google-search-reveals-what-people-really-think-about-women\/","title":{"rendered":"What People Really Think about Women, Men, and Feminists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to a tweet<\/a> from sociologist Sarah Sobieraj, we learned of a powerful campaign<\/a> to raise awareness about gender inequality from the arm of the United Nations dedicated to empowering women<\/a>. \u00a0The designers of the ads did Google searches, allowing the auto-complete to fill in word stems with the most commonly searched phrases. \u00a0The results are eyebrow-raising.<\/p>\n

I was curious to find out what my personal Google machine would spit out and, also, what the equivalent searches for men would return. \u00a0Below, I reproduce the ads, followed by my own results. \u00a0Eyebrow-raising. \u00a0As a bonus, I did the searches for feminists.<\/p>\n

\"autocomplete-sexism2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Screenshot_1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Screenshot_9\"<\/a> \"autocomplete-sexism1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Screenshot_4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Screenshot_10\"<\/a> \"autocomplete-sexism4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Screenshot_3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Screenshot_11\"<\/a> \"autocomplete-sexism3\"<\/a> \"Screenshot_12\"<\/a> \"Screenshot_8\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I\u00a0guess we still need feminism. \u00a0Unfortunately…<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot_15\"<\/a> \"Screenshot_17\"<\/a> \"Screenshot_18\"<\/a> \"Screenshot_19\"<\/a>Cross-posted at Talking Points Memo<\/a>\u00a0and Pacific Standard<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to a tweet from sociologist Sarah Sobieraj, we learned of a powerful campaign to raise awareness about gender inequality from the arm of the United Nations dedicated to empowering women. \u00a0The designers of the ads did Google searches, allowing the auto-complete to fill in word stems with the most commonly searched phrases. \u00a0The results […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":57826,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2098,283],"class_list":["post-57745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-prejudicediscrimination","tag-prejudicediscrimination"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/10\/Screenshot_129.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57745","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=57745"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57942,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57745\/revisions\/57942"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}