{"id":60121,"date":"2013-12-22T08:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=60121"},"modified":"2013-12-10T20:02:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T01:02:36","slug":"move-over-halloween-here-comes-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/12\/22\/move-over-halloween-here-comes-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Move Over Halloween, Here Comes Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Tis the season to remind us that men and women are different and one of women’s jobs is to pander to a hypothetical heterosexual male gaze. \u00a0The University of Akron’s Will LeSuer<\/a> photographed the Christmas-themed costumes for sale at a local store, noting the not-so-implicit gendered expectations.<\/p>\n

Surprise, the main theme of the women’s costumes was cute and flirty:<\/p>\n

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The men’s themes are, let’s see, comfortable and… superhero?<\/p>\n

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And, yes, it starts when they’re kids.\"IMG_20131209_172436\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s a fun compare-and-contrast for maximum icky feeling. \u00a0The sexualization of girls and the infantilization of women, in one holiday-themed shot (“child” costume on left, “adult” on right):<\/p>\n

\"3\"<\/a><\/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":"

‘Tis the season to remind us that men and women are different and one of women’s jobs is to pander to a hypothetical heterosexual male gaze. \u00a0The University of Akron’s Will LeSuer photographed the Christmas-themed costumes for sale at a local store, noting the not-so-implicit gendered expectations. Surprise, the main theme of the women’s costumes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":60128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,55,2099,2096,2087,2093,254],"class_list":["post-60121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-gender-objectification","tag-holidays"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/12\/IMG_20131209_173002.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60121","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=60121"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60130,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60121\/revisions\/60130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}