{"id":58230,"date":"2013-11-24T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-24T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=58230"},"modified":"2013-11-28T02:56:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T07:56:12","slug":"everyone-lotion-for-everyone-and-men-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/11\/24\/everyone-lotion-for-everyone-and-men-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyone Lotion for Everyone, and Men Too"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve highlighted the ways in which society portrays men as people and women as women many times over. \u00a0So many times, in fact, that we started a Pinterest collection<\/a>. \u00a0There are two scenarios in which men are the default person: (1) masculine spaces, like the workplace<\/a> and politics<\/a>, and (2) neutral spaces that aren’t associated with men or women, like museums<\/a> and the internet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When something is distinctly feminized, however, things flip. \u00a0@jessimckenzi<\/a>\u00a0and @freedenoeur<\/a> forwarded us a pointed example: a brand of lotion called “everyone.” \u00a0Everyone lotion comes in two types: everyone lotion “for everyone and every body” and everyone lotion for men:<\/p>\n

\"Screenshot_6\"<\/a>This practice reminds us who belongs where by making one gender or the other the neutral participant and then adding a modifier in order to selectively include the other sex. Another example of this phenomenon is the masculinizing of feminine products<\/a> in order to sell them to men and the feminizing of masculine products<\/a> to sell them to women. Together these practices affirm and naturalize gender-based segregation in our social spaces and activities.<\/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":"

We’ve highlighted the ways in which society portrays men as people and women as women many times over. \u00a0So many times, in fact, that we started a Pinterest collection. \u00a0There are two scenarios in which men are the default person: (1) masculine spaces, like the workplace and politics, and (2) neutral spaces that aren’t associated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":58233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[257,23384,55,2089,23703],"class_list":["post-58230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hygiene","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-gender","tag-gender-beauty","tag-marketing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/11\/Screenshot_6.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58230","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=58230"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59429,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58230\/revisions\/59429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}