{"id":10928,"date":"2009-07-21T10:14:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-21T15:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=10928"},"modified":"2017-09-16T17:57:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T22:57:58","slug":"do-you-have-hypotrichosis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/07\/21\/do-you-have-hypotrichosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Do You Have Hypotrichosis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You do if your eyelashes are &#8220;inadequate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And what woman feels eyelash-adequate after decades of mascara commercials?<\/p>\n<p>Well, now there&#8217;s a medical solution to hypotrichosis: Latisse.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QWm4rGjf_38\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Do you love the mascara-commercial-genre of music?<\/p>\n<p>What is amazing to me is how perfectly this commercial for prescription medication for inadequate eyelashes mimics mascara commercials. Consider this random example from youtube:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/K7M70dYsr4c&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>The line between health care and capitalist profiting off of instilled human insecurities: officially blurred.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ginandtacos.com\/2009\/07\/17\/npf-this-is-not-how-i-wanted-to-even-things-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gin and Tacos<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>UPDATE!<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/span>In the comments thread, Nadine told this story:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just got back from escorting my 86 yr old father to see a dermatologist.\u00a0 Every single female staffer was wearing a button that read &#8220;ask me about my lashes.&#8221;\u00a0 Evidently they&#8217;re giving freebies to staff to promote Latisse.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Wade is a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">professor of sociology at Occidental College<\/a>. You can follow her on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\/followers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Lisa-Wade-PhD\/174350419354908\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You do if your eyelashes are &#8220;inadequate.&#8221; And what woman feels eyelash-adequate after decades of mascara commercials? Well, now there&#8217;s a medical solution to hypotrichosis: Latisse. Do you love the mascara-commercial-genre of music? What is amazing to me is how perfectly this commercial for prescription medication for inadequate eyelashes mimics mascara commercials. Consider this random [&hellip;]<\/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":[218,98,2089,252,23703],"class_list":["post-10928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-capitalism","tag-gender-beauty","tag-healthmedicine","tag-marketing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928","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=10928"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71008,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928\/revisions\/71008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}