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Dehumanizing women; women as toys, useful only for fucking; women as interchangeable:

By the way, on the back it says: “Isn’t that why women have more than one hole?”

Here it is in a pillowcase:

Different take, same message:

Trivialization of rape:

Glamorization of violent sex and the priviliging of men’s sexual pleasure:

Trivialization of relationship violence:

This last one says: “I like my women like my chicken, battered.”

To see where Sociological Images and its authors are appearing around the internet and in print, visit our list of Interviews (podcasts, radio, and print), Reviews, Essays and Posts published elsewhere, and instances in which we’ve been Quoted (in news articles, industry pages, etc.).

INTERVIEWS:

• Wisconsin Public Radio, At Issue with Ben Merens, on gender and toys (listen)
• NPR’s Morning Edition, on gender policing and the Bic “Pens for Her” (listen)
• Sounds Familiar, Sex, Death, and Morals in Horror (listen)
• KPCC‘s AirTalk, on “gender profiling” men in children’s spaces (listen)
• Bitch, On Advertising (transcript)
• Contexts, Lisa Wade and Gwen Sharp on Public Sociology (listen)
• Change Marketing, Five Pointed Questions
• CKNW‘s Bill Good Show, on gender and children’s toys
• CKNW‘s Bill Good Show, on the sexualization of young girls
• Contexts, About Sociological Images
• WEOL am 930, Les in the Morning, on Disparate Pricing of White and Black Dolls

REVIEWS:

• Sociological Images: “Will You Marry Me?” by Peggy Orenstein (plus a Twitter mini review!)
• Visual Studies, thanks to Karen McCormack
• Teaching Sociology, thanks to David Mayeda
• Shinpai Deshau, thanks to Leah Zoller
• Bitch, thanks to the staff

ESSAYS AND POSTS AT:

APPEARANCES IN ONLINE AND PRINT MEDIA

• Huffington Post, Victorian Breastfeeding Photo Fad: Shifting Discourses of Motherhood
• The Daily Mail, Bizarre Pictures Reveal the Unlikely Trend for Photographs of Breastfeeding Mothers in Victorian-Era America
• Huffington Post, Occidental Faculty “No Confidence” Vote Rebukes Administrators for Handling of Sexual Assaults
• VitaminW, Occidental Faculty Stands Up for Victims of Sexual Assault
• BoingBoing, Why the Majority of People Now Favor Marriage Equality
• Bitch, How Not to Handle a College Sexual Assault
• Minnesota Public Radio, Nature vs.  Nurture Continued, Throwing “Like a Girl”
• BBC, The Re-Birth of an Icon: She Can Do It
• Ad Age, In a Culture of Mass Shootings, the Ad Industry Shares the Blame
• Andrew Sullivan’s The Dish, Profiting Off Prisoners, Ctd
• BoingBoing, Girls’ Crappy Fake Toy Laptop is Pink, and Half as Powerful as Boys’ Crappy Fake Toy Laptop
• USA Today, Halloween Costumes and Defining the Line Between Playful, Offensive
• Huffington Post Parents, Girls’ Halloween Costumes Then and Now: The Evolution from Silly to Sexy
• Business Insider, This is What an Oil Boom Town Looks Like After it’s Gone Bust
• The Daily Beast/Andrew Sullivan, “There are Producers and Parasites,” Ctd
• The Daily Beast/Andrew Sullivan, The Gender Revolution for Boys
• The Daily Beast/Andrew Sullivan, The Creation of Color
• DisInformation, The Real Threat Posed by Counterfeit Goods
• Huffington Post, Women Deserve Spankings According to Old “Daily Mirror” News Clipping
• BoingBoing, Mitt Romney Doesn’t Know How Venn Diagrams Work
• Jezebel, More Than Half the Country Has “No Doubt” That God is Real
• Kansas City Star, Across Pop Culture, It’s the Summer of Lust by Women
• HuffPost Parents, LEGO Gender Gap: Sociological Images Blog Maps Toy Company’s Gender Marketing Through History
• BoingBoing, History of Gendering in Lego
• Neatorama, The Lego Gender Gap
• Rue69 (French), Je Suis « Nénés », Celui Dont on Riait à l’École Parce Qu’il Avait des Seins
• Multicultural Familia, “Biracial is Bad”: How KRAFT’s MilkBites Campaign Perpetuates Stereotypes & White Supremacy
• Business Insider, Three Decades of Thin: How the Fashion Industry Promotes Anorexia
• PhD in Parenting, From Toddlers and Tiaras to Sext Up Kids: A Dangerous Path
• i09, Doctors Say Fat People Can Live as Long as Thin Ones
• Phoenix New Times, Is Disney’s Princess Candy Packaging Insensitive?
• The Week, Disney’s Black Princess Selling Watermelon Candy, Racist?
• The Daily Meal, Disney Places First Black Princess on Watermelon Candy Packet
• BoingBoing, Bill O’Reilly Flunks Middle-School Math While Defending Fox’s Sleazy Hack Job on the Netherlands
• NPR: The Picture Show, A Lens on Life in the Kentucky Hollows
• The Mary Sue, Legos for Girls: A Reprise
• Her Circle, Becoming a Wife
• Babble, OMG: 2-Year-Old Baby Freestyling. Yes!
• CNN’s Geek Out, Nerds and Hipsters: The Ying and Yang of American Subcultures
• Inside Higher Ed, Sociologists in Sin City
• Feministing, Lisa Wade on the Real Problem with Hooking Up in College
• About, The Role of Race in the Arnold Schwartzenegger Love Child Scandal
• Newsy, Australian Supermodel with a Twist
• Huffington Post, Dove Ad Casts Spotlight on Madison Avenue Racism
• The Globe and Mail, Why These Car Ads Insult the “Used” Woman, not the Man
• Chicago Tribune, Abercrombie Retreats on Push-Up Bikini for Girls
• Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Abercrombie and Fitch Re-Thinks Marketing Provocative Bikini Tops to Tweens
• Columbus Dispatch, Abercrombie’s Padded Bikini for PreTeens Stirs Up Fuss
• ABC News, Born This Way: Childhood Photos of Gay Adults
• American Prospect, Rep. Giffords Has a Husband!
• American Prospect, What Color Was That Again?
• CNN, Disney’s ‘Princess’ is a Hop Toward Progress
• Psychology Today, Imagine all the Singlism: Prejudice in Pictures
• ABC News, Black Barbie Sold for Less Than White Barbie at Walmart Store
• The Telegraph, Walmart Under Fire for Selling Black Barbies at Half Price of White Barbies
• The Guardian, Just Don’t Say the A-Word
• San Francisco Chronicle, Monkey Business: Defenders of Controversial Chimp Cartoon Walk Familiar, if Dubious, Line
• Baltimore Sun, Eating Disorder Experts Criticize ‘Anna Rexia’ Costume
• Rue89, translated our post Go Where? Gender, Sex, and Toilets into French
• Adweek, Toy Pitches Half-Baked?
• The New Naturalista, Raising Natural Daughters
• The Star, Is Vogue Italia’s Oil-Themed Fashion Shoot Slick or Crude?
• Women’s eNews, What Sex Is Your Crossing Light? Check the Mural
• Demo Dirt, Not a Sex Kitten, Yet Not a Cougar