{"id":154825,"date":"2015-05-13T18:41:47","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T18:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/13\/we-live-in-a-culture-that-produces-girls-tops\/"},"modified":"2015-05-13T18:41:47","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T18:41:47","slug":"we-live-in-a-culture-that-produces-girls-tops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/13\/we-live-in-a-culture-that-produces-girls-tops\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>We live in a culture that produces girls\u2019 tops with narrower shoulder straps than boys\u2019 tops, girls\u2019 shorts that expose more leg than boys\u2019 shorts, and then shames girls for wearing the clothes sold to them. We live in a culture that tells boys it\u2019s okay to shed clothing in the heat in order to be more comfortable, but tells girls that their comfort is secondary to how others perceive them. <\/p>\n<p>\n[\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The message that we are receiving isn\u2019t just that more \u2018revealing\u2019 clothes are wrong. It\u2019s that our female bodies are wrong. That by having breasts and hips and legs and exposing them, we are less.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/rolereboot.org\/culture-and-politics\/details\/2014-05-message-teenage-girls-summer-dress-codes\/#.U3zoViVd09B.twitter\" target=\"_blank\">A Message To Teenage Girls About Summer Dress Codes<\/a>, Chelsea Cristene (via <a href=\"http:\/\/tiredestprincess.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">tiredestprincess<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We live in a culture that produces girls\u2019 tops with narrower shoulder straps than boys\u2019 tops, girls\u2019 shorts that expose more leg than boys\u2019 shorts, and then shames girls for wearing the clothes sold to them. We live in a culture that tells boys it\u2019s okay to shed clothing in the heat in order to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/05\/13\/we-live-in-a-culture-that-produces-girls-tops\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[309,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}