{"id":9167,"date":"2016-06-17T13:00:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T07:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak?p=9167"},"modified":"2019-03-26T17:03:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T11:33:17","slug":"marked-women-unmarked-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/marked-women-unmarked-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Marked Women, Unmarked Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>by Deborah Tannen \/\/\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><em>The New York Times Magazine, June 20, 1993. <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Some years ago<\/span> I was at a small working conference of four women and eight men. Instead of concentrating on the discussion I found myself looking at the three other women at the table, thinking how each had a different style and how each style was coherent.<\/p>\n<p>One woman had dark brown hair in a classic style, a cross between Cleopatra and Plain Jane. The severity of her straight hair was softened by wavy bangs and ends that turned under. Because she was beautiful, the effect was more Cleopatra than plain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\" data-para-count=\"379\" data-total-count=\"783\">To read the full article, please visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1993\/06\/20\/magazine\/wears-jump-suit-sensible-shoes-uses-husbands-last-name.html?mtrref=www.google.com&amp;gwh=F5F381FC38B942AB427B6E866F46F00A&amp;gwt=pay\">New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><em>Cover image:\u00a0torbakhopper, CC BY-ND 2.0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"wpex-notice\" style=\"text-align: left;\">How do you like\u00a0<em>In Plainspeak<\/em>? Got any suggestions for us?\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tarshi.typeform.com\/to\/xyH9U3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Let us know quick and easy<\/a>\u00a0with our survey.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a woman&#8217;s clothing is tight or revealing (in other words, sexy), it sends a message &#8212; an intended one of wanting to be attractive, but also a possibly unintended one of availability. If her clothes are not sexy, that too sends a message, lent meaning by the knowledge that they could have been. There are thousands of cosmetic products from which women can choose and myriad ways of applying them. Yet no makeup at all is anything but unmarked. Some men see it as a hostile refusal to please them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":9169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,1,688],"tags":[694,692,26,693,123,579],"class_list":{"0":"post-9167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blog-roll","8":"category-categories","9":"category-work-and-sexuality","10":"tag-academics","11":"tag-clothing","12":"tag-gender","13":"tag-linguistics","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-sexism"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9167"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16442,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167\/revisions\/16442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}