It struck a nerve and was covered this month at The Independent<\/a>, ABC News<\/a>, CBC News<\/a>, Fox News<\/a>, io9<\/a>, USA Today<\/a>, The Examiner<\/a>,\u00a0The New York Daily News<\/a>, San Francisco Gate<\/a>,\u00a0Buzzfeed<\/a>,\u00a0Shine<\/a>, Huffington Post<\/a>, Metro<\/a>, Vitamin W<\/a>, and The Daily Mail<\/a>. \u00a0And that’s just a selection from the first two pages of search results!<\/p>\n Readers’ Picks!<\/strong><\/p>\n Social Media \u2018n\u2019 Stuff:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>Finally, this is your monthly reminder that we’re on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0Tumblr<\/a>,\u00a0Google+<\/a>, and\u00a0Pinterest<\/a>. \u00a0I’m on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and most of the team is on Twitter:\u00a0@lisawade<\/a>,\u00a0@gwensharpnv<\/a>,\u00a0@familyunequal<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0@jaylivingston<\/a>.<\/p>\n Finally… <\/strong><\/p>\n <\/strong>…a lovely picture of the steamboat Natchez on the Mississippi crescent. \u00a0I’m enjoying New Orleans and looking forward to Mardi Gras and the St. Ann’s parade!<\/p>\n SocImages News: At the end of January we had the pleasure of introducing the world to 7 year old Charlotte’s letter to Lego asking for more female minifigs and adventures for girls. It struck a nerve and was covered this month at The Independent, ABC News, CBC News, Fox News, io9, USA Today, The Examiner,\u00a0The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":62146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-60827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-updates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/02\/102.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60827","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=60827"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61691,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60827\/revisions\/61691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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<\/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":"