Comments on: Prohibition Posters http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/07/04/1743/ Sociological Images encourages people to exercise and develop their sociological imaginations with discussions of compelling visuals that span the breadth of sociological inquiry. Fri, 25 May 2012 01:42:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Friday Ephemera – Carrie the Bar Room Smasher | indiainkelephant http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/07/04/1743/comment-page-1/#comment-432987 Friday Ephemera – Carrie the Bar Room Smasher | indiainkelephant Mon, 10 Jan 2011 03:06:43 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=1743#comment-432987 [...] Images from the Prohibition Era [...] [...] Images from the Prohibition Era [...]

]]> By: Coco http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/07/04/1743/comment-page-1/#comment-2079 Coco Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:49:46 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=1743#comment-2079 The first image has circulated widely on the internet and is widely believed to be a movie still from the 1930s (early Three Stooges, maybe?), not a genuine prohibition advertisement. A quick Google of the phrase in the picture produces a number of discussions speculating on the origins of this picture. The "joke" is that these women are not sexually attractive enough for one to want to kiss in the first place, making this an interesting case of anti-feminist revisionism by the media more than anything else. The first image has circulated widely on the internet and is widely believed to be a movie still from the 1930s (early Three Stooges, maybe?), not a genuine prohibition advertisement. A quick Google of the phrase in the picture produces a number of discussions speculating on the origins of this picture.

The “joke” is that these women are not sexually attractive enough for one to want to kiss in the first place, making this an interesting case of anti-feminist revisionism by the media more than anything else.

]]> By: Le http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/07/04/1743/comment-page-1/#comment-2073 Le Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:23:50 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=1743#comment-2073 Well the first image is ironic because normally, alcohol is portrayed as something that helps guys get laid. From a racial perspective, I am thinking of the history of Chinese in America. When they first arrived, they were hated by whites. During WWII, they were loved. Then, during McCarthyism, it was back to the hate. If you can dig up ads and propaganda reflecting these different eras, it will paint the same picture: the contradiction of messages serving the messenger of any given time period or side of the fence. Well the first image is ironic because normally, alcohol is portrayed as something that helps guys get laid.

From a racial perspective, I am thinking of the history of Chinese in America. When they first arrived, they were hated by whites. During WWII, they were loved. Then, during McCarthyism, it was back to the hate. If you can dig up ads and propaganda reflecting these different eras, it will paint the same picture: the contradiction of messages serving the messenger of any given time period or side of the fence.

]]> By: Gwen http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/07/04/1743/comment-page-1/#comment-2072 Gwen Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:02:25 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=1743#comment-2072 Oh, yeah. I wasn't really criticizing the posters, just pointing out the themes and the way that things like appealing to motherhood or patriotism can be used to support completely opposing positions. My great-great grandma was actually named Frances Willard, after an anti-liquor activist and president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Oh, yeah. I wasn’t really criticizing the posters, just pointing out the themes and the way that things like appealing to motherhood or patriotism can be used to support completely opposing positions.

My great-great grandma was actually named Frances Willard, after an anti-liquor activist and president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union.

]]> By: Dubi Kanengisser http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/07/04/1743/comment-page-1/#comment-2070 Dubi Kanengisser Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:05:11 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=1743#comment-2070 About the first image - first, ugh, and second, you have to keep in mind that the prohibition movement started out as a women's movement, and the impetus was most likely the effects of (male) alcohol use on wives. That also sort of explains the Democratic poster, trying to show that prohibition achieved the opposite of what it was supposed to do. About the first image – first, ugh, and second, you have to keep in mind that the prohibition movement started out as a women’s movement, and the impetus was most likely the effects of (male) alcohol use on wives. That also sort of explains the Democratic poster, trying to show that prohibition achieved the opposite of what it was supposed to do.

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