{"id":1065,"date":"2008-05-22T12:40:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T17:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2010-11-23T22:55:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T03:55:50","slug":"spread-legs-design-motif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/05\/22\/spread-legs-design-motif\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSpread Legs\u201d Design Motif"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two readers, Breck and Miguel, sent in this post:<\/p>\n

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Boingboing<\/a> put up this post that shows how common “spread legs” imagery is in old book covers. A commenter to that post pointed out this example (found here<\/a>) from the Broadway version of Cry-Baby.:<\/p>\n

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Another commenter thought this FatBoy Slim album cover<\/a> is interesting:
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And there’s this Pooh-Man album cover<\/a><\/a>:<\/p>\n

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And<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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Miguel<\/a> pointed out that the exact same stance can seem threatening or sexual inviting, depending on whether it’s a man or a woman in the pose.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Breck and Miguel for sending these along!<\/p>\n

NEW<\/span>: Larry sent along this image from the June 2008 issue of Esquire<\/em> magazine (p. 112), which also uses the “spread legs” motif:<\/p>\n

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Two readers, Breck and Miguel, sent in this post: Boingboing put up this post that shows how common “spread legs” imagery is in old book covers. A commenter to that post pointed out this example (found here) from the Broadway version of Cry-Baby.: Another commenter thought this FatBoy Slim album cover is interesting: And there’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8070,218,55,2103,120],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-artliterature","tag-bodies","tag-gender","tag-gender-bodies","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29400,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/29400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}