Click here for a slideshow off all the alcoholic drinks a man "shouldn't" order and an explanation for why.
Illustrates quite nicely how severely men are restricted by the privileging of masculinity over femininity (men eschew femininity at all costs, women can do masculinity without much opprobrium, as long as they do a little femm too).
What Men Shouldn't Do
The Full Set
Jeff posted a quote and two of the pics from the photo shoot for America's Next Top model that specified that the women had to appear to be murdered (here). Here's the remaining pictures:
Ironically, models were critiqued by Tyra Banks for having "dead eyes."
This is about as mainstream as culture gets.
Eroticization of violence against women
"For the male, the repulsion [felt "for woman as such"] is sexually intense, genitally focused, sexually solipsistic, without any critical or moral self-consciousness. Photograph what she is, painted pink; the camera delivers her up as a dead thing; the picture is of a corpse, embalmed. The contemporary novelist does it with words: paints the thing, fucks it, kills it" (Andrea Dworkin).
Photos from America's Next Top Model.
Booze = Sex
On the back it says "Formulated to turn 21 to 35 year olds into drunken, energized, sex freaks. --BottleWatch"
The back also has a silhouette of a woman holding a can of Four.
Kudos
Special Thanks to Jennifer Lena over at Whatisthewhat for linking to us!!! Jennifer, send me a note if you'd like to be a contributor.
Racism In The Aftermath Of Hurricane Katrina
These two pictures were in the same slide show released by AP and picked up all over the mass media. After instant outrage from various quarters, they were taken down... but some of us got copies before they were able to erase history. Here are the pictures with their original captions, note that the white couple "find[s]" and the black individual "loot[s]."
Two residents wade through chest-deep water after finding bread and soda from a local grocery.
A young man walks through chest deep flood water after looting a grocery store in New Orleans.
Phallic Symbolism
"Black" cologne spray by Pierre Cardin. The ad in Rolling Stone has a guy with his shirt unbuttoned all the way and says "Set the night in motion."
Denigration With Femininity
Apparently in Thailand they are punishing cops that break little rules by forcing them to wear pink Hello Kitty armbands. The article doesn't say WHY this would be humiliating, only that it is.
If it were in America, this would illustrate how it is humiliating for men to be in any way feminine... but I don't know anything about Thai culture. The image, though, is fascinating:
restore the balance
Here's my first post on Soc Images!
This is one of my favorites displays of food and gender-- the hummer tofu commercial.
Enjoy.
Believe It Or Not...
...this is an ad for breast implants:
It is more important to look smart than it is to be smart. And being smart is never enough.
Click here for the webpage.
Post Secret Confessions
Post Secret is a secret confession site. People send in anonymous postcards with their confessions and they are posted for all to read. They are interesting to use in class because they are real people who express ideas that we try to convince our students are out there. Here are two from this week:
Race/Ethnicity as a Fad
Gender and Shame
More Commercialization of Racist Hip-Hop Stereotypes
This candy is on sale at a Circle K around the corner from me. They're candy gold-and-diamond teeth you can wear. Ick.
Capitalist Co-optation
I took these pictures of a store front in Orange County. They illustrate the co-optation of our democracy by capitalism and the way in which “freedom” has been reduced to being able to “choose” how to spend your money.
Don't miss the "Denim Now" button with the peace dove.
Following Positions To Their Logical Conclusions
Click here for a fascinating 7 minute video in which a man interviews pro-life activists and asks: "If abortion was illegal, should women who have abortions go to jail?"
Patriotic Car Tags
Some nice examples of the use of particular images (the Twin Towers, the flag) to imply patriotism.
Ativan Ad
Drug company's use of public concerns about a changing world and a drug as the solution to all of our problems.
what is it?
Does corporate America not know what to do with hip hop, or does hip hop not know what to do with corporate America? Or, do they both know exactly what they are doing?
Sunsilk Shampoo Ads from Glamour Magazine
Before...
...and after.
Good for showing how gender is inscribed into product packaging, how packages become symbols of ideal femininity, and the normalization of cosmetic surgery as a way to achieve that ideal.
Fake TV Commercial...
...promoting coal that illustrates how manipulative commercials are (also funny).
The Commodification of Sex and Love
The Great Happiness Space is an amazing full-length documentary (available in full online) about "host" clubs in Japan. These clubs service women, mostly sex workers, who buy time with men (hosts, who also get a cut of all the money the women spend on alcohol) who pretend like they love them. The women establish long-term relationships with their hosts, spend sometimes 10s of thousands of dollars in a night, all to have the feeling that someone cares for them. So they earn tons of money giving sex to men and then they turn around and give that money back to men who give them affection (and sometimes sex). The hosts make between 10,000 and 50,000 a month. Also a great study in cross-cultural gender differences.
Mannequins With Boobs Meant To Look Fake
I posted these on my personal blog but thought I should put them up here too. I shot these pictures in Laguna Beach. They are mannequins purposefully made so as too look like they've had breast implants. Enjoy!
And here's a close up:
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