{"id":62687,"date":"2014-06-04T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T14:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=62687"},"modified":"2015-02-01T02:46:01","modified_gmt":"2015-02-01T07:46:01","slug":"are-you-working-hard-enough-to-achieve-your-natural-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/06\/04\/are-you-working-hard-enough-to-achieve-your-natural-body\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Working Hard Enough to Achieve Your Natural Body?"},"content":{"rendered":"

We commonly hear claims that men are naturally more muscular and physically intimidating than women. \u00a0“It’s a biological fact,” someone might say. \u00a0If that were true, though, we wouldn’t have to work so incredibly hard to make it so.<\/p>\n

@IllMakeItMyself<\/a> sent in this great example of the way in which we are pushed to force our bodies into a\u00a0gender binary that we pretend is natural. \u00a0On the upper right part of the Men’s Health<\/em> cover, it reads: “Add 15lb of muscle” and, right next door on the Women’s Health<\/em> cover, it reads “5 ways to lose 15 lbs.”<\/p>\n

If we have to try this hard to make it true, maybe we’re not as different as we think we are.<\/p>\n

\"1\"<\/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":"

We commonly hear claims that men are naturally more muscular and physically intimidating than women. \u00a0“It’s a biological fact,” someone might say. \u00a0If that were true, though, we wouldn’t have to work so incredibly hard to make it so. @IllMakeItMyself sent in this great example of the way in which we are pushed to force […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":62819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,235,244,55,23676,2103],"class_list":["post-62687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-dietexercise-industry","tag-fat","tag-gender","tag-gender-binary","tag-gender-bodies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/06\/1-2-Copy.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62687","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=62687"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62821,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62687\/revisions\/62821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}