{"id":1150,"date":"2008-05-28T02:37:21","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T07:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=1150"},"modified":"2010-11-23T22:59:40","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T03:59:40","slug":"the-relationship-between-patriarchy-and-the-denigration-of-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/05\/28\/the-relationship-between-patriarchy-and-the-denigration-of-men\/","title":{"rendered":"The Relationship between Patriarchy and the Denigration of Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the relationship between the denigration of men as men and patriarchy?  So long as we buy into the idea that we can&#8217;t expect men to be good partners or fathers, we will tolerate women&#8217;s responsibility for the second shift and their placement on the mommy track at work.  So the Homer Simpson-esque sitcom dads and the Jackass teenagers, while incredibly degrading to men, also serve to perpetuate patriarchy.<\/p>\n<p>Case in point:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/O9vSAepxC9o&amp;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Jessica at <a href=\"http:\/\/feministing.com\/archives\/009259.html\" target=\"_blank\">Feministing<\/a> writes that this ad:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;feed[s] into the sexist idea that men deserve a cookie for being halfway decent human beings, but it also denigrates men by suggesting that they&#8217;re animals, unable to resist any ass that that happens to pass their way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another excellent example <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/02\/16\/i-love-my-roomba-but\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the relationship between the denigration of men as men and patriarchy? So long as we buy into the idea that we can&#8217;t expect men to be good partners or fathers, we will tolerate women&#8217;s responsibility for the second shift and their placement on the mommy track at work. So the Homer Simpson-esque sitcom [&hellip;]<\/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":[2124,55,2095,2087],"class_list":["post-1150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foodagriculture","tag-gender","tag-gender-feminismactivism","tag-gender-masculinity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150","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=1150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29413,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1150\/revisions\/29413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}