{"id":34133,"date":"2012-08-20T01:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T01:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/smh_emma_young-time_to_put_a_lid_on_the_constant_refrain_of_putting_a_ring\/"},"modified":"2012-08-20T01:40:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T01:40:00","slug":"smh_emma_young-time_to_put_a_lid_on_the_constant_refrain_of_putting_a_ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34133","title":{"rendered":"(SMH) Emma Young&#8211;Time to put a lid on the constant refrain of putting a ring on it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a more rational light, [Jennifer] Aniston&#8217;s marriage news is great news for her. If she&#8217;s happy, and presumably she is, that&#8217;s wonderful. But the reaction to this news, and her life before it, is bad news for us as a group.<\/p>\n<p>What the treatment of the film star reveals is our determination to stick to old-school ideas about sex and gender. The worth of a woman has long been judged by her ability to keep a man. Aniston was supposedly diminished by her failure to keep Pitt and further damaged by her inability to replace him with a shiny new man.<\/p>\n<p>Because she&#8217;s female, the idea that she might be content being single, dating and living on her own wasn&#8217;t taken seriously.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/opinion\/society-and-culture\/time-to-put-a-lid-on-the-constant-refrain-of-putting-a-ring-on-it-20120819-24gf3.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a more rational light, [Jennifer] Aniston&#8217;s marriage news is great news for her. If she&#8217;s happy, and presumably she is, that&#8217;s wonderful. But the reaction to this news, and her life before it, is bad news for us as<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=34133\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,42,175,204,168,98,155,424,34,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-australia-nz","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-other-faiths","category-secularism","category-theology","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}