Comments on: Open Thread: Toyota’s Gender-Bending Commercial http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/09/04/open-thread-toyotas-new-gender-bending-commercial/ Sociological Images encourages people to exercise and develop their sociological imaginations with discussions of compelling visuals that span the breadth of sociological inquiry. Fri, 10 Apr 2015 14:32:02 +0000 hourly 1 By: Genderplayful Roundup 10.11.12 | Genderplayful http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/09/04/open-thread-toyotas-new-gender-bending-commercial/comment-page-1/#comment-593805 Mon, 13 Oct 2014 20:15:39 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=50768#comment-593805 […] –   Sociological Images has been hosting a lively discussion about Toyota’s recent gender-bending commercial. […]

]]> By: Genderplayful Roundup 10.11.12 | Genderplayful http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/09/04/open-thread-toyotas-new-gender-bending-commercial/comment-page-1/#comment-562348 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 18:33:15 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=50768#comment-562348 […] –   Sociological Images has been hosting a lively discussion about Toyota’s recent gender-bending commercial. […]

]]> By: oofstar http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/09/04/open-thread-toyotas-new-gender-bending-commercial/comment-page-1/#comment-560629 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 01:25:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=50768#comment-560629 no. dressing up in clothes intended for women doesn’t not make you a woman, and it doesn’t stop you from being a man. that is something the model can feel/talk about, but not something we can speculate on. the idea that dressing ‘femininely’ is not something men can do is in itself really oppressive. what we wear does not determine our gender identity. sometimes our gender identity affects what we wear. but sometimes people just like wearing dresses and makeup. it has nothing to do with their gender and as a society it’s our responsibility to -not- insist that it does.

]]> By: Julie http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/09/04/open-thread-toyotas-new-gender-bending-commercial/comment-page-1/#comment-560599 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:43:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=50768#comment-560599 So now compaines are relying on objectifying people other than cis-women in order to sell completely unrelated products? Um, equality?

]]> By: glaborous_immolate http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/09/04/open-thread-toyotas-new-gender-bending-commercial/comment-page-1/#comment-560459 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 13:06:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=50768#comment-560459 Fascinating. I guess I was so primed to assume I was looking at a woman I falsely perceived appropriate hip dimensions. 

]]> By: Kat http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/09/04/open-thread-toyotas-new-gender-bending-commercial/comment-page-1/#comment-560431 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 21:01:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=50768#comment-560431  I’ll explain some more what I mean: Have I met women that look very male and men who look very female ? Yes. But they fall into two categories: Either they identify as genderqueer/genderfuck and are at the very camp/very butch end of the spectrum of sexuality/gender portrayal (at the ends of the spectrum these two often, but not always intersect) or they try to ‘correct’ the misgendering by others through clothing and in the case of women often through makeup (for an example check out e.g. the politician Andrea Fischer on google images). Stav doesn’t ‘correct’ his misgendering in any way. So I don’t think he’s cisgender.

]]> By: Geetha http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/09/04/open-thread-toyotas-new-gender-bending-commercial/comment-page-1/#comment-560430 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:58:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=50768#comment-560430  Why are you policing someone else’s identity?

]]> By: Kat http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/09/04/open-thread-toyotas-new-gender-bending-commercial/comment-page-1/#comment-560428 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:33:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=50768#comment-560428  BTW: Did you even read the article? Since you didn’t care to address it at all.

]]> By: Kat http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/09/04/open-thread-toyotas-new-gender-bending-commercial/comment-page-1/#comment-560426 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:32:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=50768#comment-560426 Why don’t you care to check BMI lists and PROVE that he’s not underweight? If you don’t see that he’s severely underweight, I def can’t help you. Cause the fault then is in ‘blinders’ due to overexposure to extremely skinny imaging.

]]> By: Kat http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/09/04/open-thread-toyotas-new-gender-bending-commercial/comment-page-1/#comment-560427 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:32:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=50768#comment-560427  The exact opposite. See the link I posted above.

]]> By: Kat http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/09/04/open-thread-toyotas-new-gender-bending-commercial/comment-page-1/#comment-560425 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:25:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=50768#comment-560425  I’m not here to educate you- I’m sure you can scholar.google articles on American military bases and their cultural impact on.your.own.

]]> By: Kat http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/09/04/open-thread-toyotas-new-gender-bending-commercial/comment-page-1/#comment-560424 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:24:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=50768#comment-560424  Just replace ‘than’ with ‘then’. And major side eye for your response.

]]> By: Kat http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/09/04/open-thread-toyotas-new-gender-bending-commercial/comment-page-1/#comment-560423 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:22:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=50768#comment-560423  I disagree. I’ve gone through the archive of the tumblr etc and he always looks female. At that end of the spectrum I don’t think cisgender is possible. Especially since he does not do anything to appear more male.

]]> By: anon http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/09/04/open-thread-toyotas-new-gender-bending-commercial/comment-page-1/#comment-560306 Sat, 08 Sep 2012 01:04:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=50768#comment-560306 I’m afraid you’re only reasserting things you haven’t actually argued for.  Telling me that there’s “a vast literature” on a six-year occupation that ended 60 years ago doesn’t constitute an argument.  What does the literature claim?  How does American “cultural hegemony” manage to oppress an entire nation with a history of serious hegemonic tendencies of its own?  

Finally, how does that compare to the null hypothesis that Straskho is just a model with an unusual and expectation-defying look that goes well with an ad for an ostensibly unusal and expectation-defying car?

]]> By: Sugabelly http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2012/09/04/open-thread-toyotas-new-gender-bending-commercial/comment-page-1/#comment-560272 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:32:00 +0000 http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/?p=50768#comment-560272 Why are the models in Japanese adverts always White????????? 90% at least of the customers in Japan are Japanese.

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