{"id":10222,"date":"2009-06-30T10:04:09","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T15:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=10222"},"modified":"2017-09-16T18:07:09","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T23:07:09","slug":"satire-means-it-means-the-opposite-of-what-it-means-so-chill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/06\/30\/satire-means-it-means-the-opposite-of-what-it-means-so-chill\/","title":{"rendered":"Satire Means It Means The Opposite Of What It Means. So Chill!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI mean, it’s Ellen DeGeneres. She’s a comedian. Everyone knows she’s just being funny.<\/p>\n

Besides, she’s totally gay. Gay ladies don’t really<\/em> care about beauty, am I right or am I right?<\/p>\n

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What do you think?<\/p>\n

I’ll tell you what I think. Satire or no, Cover Girl’s done a lot of market research and they think it’s going to make people buy make up just like any old advertisement.\u00a0 And I think they’re right.<\/p>\n

In fact, I think satire is disarming.\u00a0 When we see this commercial, our “don’t fuck with us” response doesn’t kick in because it’s just funny ol’ Ellen bein’ wacky.\u00a0 Advertising counts on us thinking it doesn’t affect us.\u00a0 Otherwise we’d be pissed.\u00a0 I think satire is a useful tool with which advertisers trick us into letting down our guard.<\/p>\n

We’ve been hitting satire hard lately.\u00a0 I think it’s because it’s really pretty tricky to figure out.\u00a0 See our previous posts on or featuring satire here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.\u00a0 Here’s one that actually refers to data<\/a> (as opposed to just involves us mouthing off.)<\/p>\n

(Via Moody Springs<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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Lisa Wade is a\u00a0professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I mean, it’s Ellen DeGeneres. She’s a comedian. Everyone knows she’s just being funny. Besides, she’s totally gay. Gay ladies don’t really care about beauty, am I right or am I right? What do you think? I’ll tell you what I think. Satire or no, Cover Girl’s done a lot of market research and they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2089,256,23703,54],"class_list":["post-10222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-beauty","tag-humor","tag-marketing","tag-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10222"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71025,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10222\/revisions\/71025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}