{"id":10245,"date":"2011-10-10T07:35:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T07:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/10\/10\/screw-this-sexism\/"},"modified":"2011-10-10T07:35:49","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T07:35:49","slug":"screw-this-sexism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/10\/screw-this-sexism\/","title":{"rendered":"Screw this sexism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following photograph is a Facebook Peme (Pic Meme, sometimes spelled &#8220;peem&#8221;). In its original form it had a caption that was sexist and offensive, feeding the idea that girls can&#8217;t do math (innately) and also suggesting that a good backup plan for a middle schooler frustrated with academics is sexual self-objectivictoin.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/472\/files\/2012\/04\/i-5c5c9e90cda9266a30155cb6bd2859cf-Screw_This_Alternative.jpg?w=604\" alt=\"i-5c5c9e90cda9266a30155cb6bd2859cf-Screw_This_Alternative.jpg\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve blogged about this <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/2011\/10\/09\/girls-cant-do-math\/\">at The X Blog<\/a>.  Here, I&#8217;d like to ask you to suggest alternative captions for this photograph.  And by &#8220;alternative&#8221; I mean positive.  Or funny but not sexist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following photograph is a Facebook Peme (Pic Meme, sometimes spelled &#8220;peem&#8221;). In its original form it had a caption that was sexist and offensive, feeding the idea that girls can&#8217;t do math (innately) and also suggesting that a good backup plan for a middle schooler frustrated with academics is sexual self-objectivictoin. I&#8217;ve blogged about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/10\/screw-this-sexism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Screw this sexism<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[286,173],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-2Ff","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}