{"id":2841,"date":"2020-10-16T07:57:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T14:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2841"},"modified":"2020-10-05T13:25:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T20:25:50","slug":"496-fat-old-sugar-mommies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/496-fat-old-sugar-mommies\/","title":{"rendered":"496 &#8211; Fat Old Sugar-Mommies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"736\" height=\"654\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/gender-roles-1.png\" alt=\"A panel from Weird Fantasy #12, January 1952\" class=\"wp-image-2842\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/gender-roles-1.png 736w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/gender-roles-1-300x267.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Weird Fantasy #12, January 1952<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In EC&#8217;s Weird Fantasy #12 (January 1952), &#8220;A Man&#8217;s Job&#8221; features an amusing tale from a future in which women and men&#8217;s roles are reversed:  a woman president, a mostly-women Supreme Court, all women going out to work while the men stay at home and take care of the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"776\" height=\"708\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/gender-roles-2.png\" alt=\"Another panel from Weird Fantasy #12, January 1952\" class=\"wp-image-2843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/gender-roles-2.png 776w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/gender-roles-2-300x274.png 300w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/gender-roles-2-768x701.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 776px) 100vw, 776px\" \/><figcaption>Another panel from Weird Fantasy #12, January 1952<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Truly a weird fantasy!  I love how the writer and artist (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Orlando\">Joe Orlando<\/a>) really commit to this idea, including men as variously gold-diggers, helpless, and objects of women&#8217;s affections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In EC&#8217;s Weird Fantasy #12 (January 1952), &#8220;A Man&#8217;s Job&#8221; features an amusing tale from a future in which women and men&#8217;s roles are reversed: a woman president, a mostly-women Supreme Court, all women going out to work while the men stay at home and take care of the house. Truly a weird fantasy! I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[498,350,209,500,20],"class_list":["post-2841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-498","tag-ec","tag-feminism","tag-joe-orlando","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2841"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2871,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2841\/revisions\/2871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}