NEWS
Please welcome Julianne Monday, our first Sociological Images intern!
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Gwen was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle article about the New York Post editorial cartoon scandal. Check it out here.
Gwen would also like to say that she missed the chance to be interviewed by a reporter at the New York Times because she was at lunch when they emailed her and by the time she got back to her office they’d found someone else to be their expert commenter. She missed a chance to be quoted in the NYT for a stupid portabello mushroom-and-poblano pepper taco plate. She wasn’t even all that hungry.
That said, no one called Lisa this month at all. I’m just saying.
NEWLY ENRICHED POSTS
Our post about racist Disney characters was updated with a comparison of an image of Goofy to a traditional “Sambo” caricature and a discussion of whether Goofy is necessarily meant to be a racial archetype.
We added some of the coverage of the policing of Jessica Simpson’s weight to our post chronicling fat scandals.
We found another example of “chaperoning,” or never letting non-white people outnumber white people in ads, and added it to this post (scroll down).
To our post on “subliminal” sex in advertising, we added a vintage lipstick ad suggestive of oral sex (scroll down).
We found another ad suggesting that men use alcohol to get sex and added it to our post on the theme here (scroll down).
We added a video by Jay Smooth from Ill Doctrine [who we are totally crushing on] to this post about the use of the phrase “no homo.”
We added the hoax site Porn for Women by Women to this post about how images of men doing housework or being thoughtful is often jokingly portrayed as women’s equivalent of porn.
In the video game My World, My Way, players take on the role of a spoiled female character who uses pout points and selfishness to win. We added a video about it to this post about several other video games (note: the post isn’t safe for work).
We added more t-shirts to this post about portrayals of American Indians.
We added another image to our extremely popular post on the objectification of men (scroll to the “bottom”). We just can’t figure out why it attracts so much traffic. Hmmmm.
We have an extensive post demonstrating the sexualization of food, but they keep on comin’. Scroll all the way down for our burger boobs and Doritos undies.
Someone thought it’d be neat to fashion a female mannequin torso into an ipod stereo. We added a picture of the product to our post featuring furniture in the shape of female bodies.
Finally, we updated a post about “ethnic” fashion with an image of “tribal” sandals.
Comments 2
Agawa — March 1, 2009
In regards to the "chaperoning" post, I have an interested story. One of my friends started a university club that was picked up and used as advertising for the university. Reading a few blogs with reactions to the ad, a common reaction was to question why there were no white people in the ad, and make some derisive comment about "being PC!". It didn't occur to one poster that maybe the people depicted in the ad were the actual founders of the club - they assumed that the university had staged it to show off their diversity.
Sabriel — March 2, 2009
This might be an interesting compliment to the post about the objectification of men: http://jezebel.com/5162918/vanity-fair-not-in-favor-of-naked-men