{"id":85449,"date":"2016-08-01T11:44:23","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T18:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=85449"},"modified":"2016-08-01T11:44:23","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T18:44:23","slug":"gap-ad-sexist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/gap-ad-sexist\/","title":{"rendered":"Gap&#8217;s Latest Ad Is Being Called Sexist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/08\/01\/gap-advert-sexist\/#ZO3AZ3.EeqqV\" target=\"_blank\">Gap is under fire<\/a> for sending out a controversial email to their\u00a0UK customers.<\/p>\n<p>Users\u00a0on Twitter noted the advert was sexist as it featured\u00a0a girl with the caption &#8220;the social butterfly&#8221; and a boy with the caption &#8220;the little scholar.&#8221;\u00a0People argued that the ad encouraged\u00a0gender stereotypes.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>\nWhat on earth&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UKGap\">@UKGap<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gap\">@Gap<\/a>?!!! Talk about some class A sexist stereotyping, aimed at kids. Very disappointing. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rQJtxIh2UP\">pic.twitter.com\/rQJtxIh2UP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tina (@tinateeto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tinateeto\/status\/760102285204656128\">August 1, 2016<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">No wonder girls don&#8217;t choose <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/STEM?src=hash\">#STEM<\/a> careers after they&#8217;ve been subjected to this rubbish growing up. Seriously!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kfJ0NcrGKB\">https:\/\/t.co\/kfJ0NcrGKB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 S-A Somerville (@S_A_Somerville) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/S_A_Somerville\/status\/759869984831000577\">July 31, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-cards=\"hidden\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">OK, it\u2019s sexist, but surely the campaign was doomed from the start \u2013 that is not how you spell Einstein!<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eythoI4WAQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/eythoI4WAQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David John Lewis (@DavidJohnLewis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DavidJohnLewis\/status\/760100056217358336\">August 1, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Oh, and we forgot to mention that\u00a0Gap misspelled Einstein&#8217;s last name on the shirt. Good one, Gap.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of the advertisement? Let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"Gap is under fire for sending out a controversial email to their\u00a0UK customers. Users\u00a0on Twitter ...","author":422344,"featured_media":85470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[185],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/01114222\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-01-at-11.12.28-AM1.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/01114222\/Screen-Shot-2016-08-01-at-11.12.28-AM1.jpg","formated_date":"August 1, 2016","category_name":"News","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113842\/news.svg","author_name":"Monica Chang","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#88efd9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85449"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/422344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}