{"id":13703,"date":"2009-10-02T10:00:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T15:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=13703"},"modified":"2012-10-14T02:03:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T07:03:56","slug":"male-models-display-clothes-female-models-display-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/10\/02\/male-models-display-clothes-female-models-display-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Male Models Display Clothes; Female Models Display Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lynn drew our attention to the American Apparel webpages for men’s and women’s clothes.\u00a0 She notes a distinct difference:<\/p>\n

On the Women’s clothing pages, the girls are modelling THEMSELVES in addition to the clothes.\u00a0 You see a butt purposefully sticking out here, a shirt pulled up to there, a head thrown back in a coquettish manner, a back arched this way and that.<\/p>\n

On the Men’s pages, the men are essentially just “standing there”, letting the clothes speak for themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve included screen shots of all of the models in the slide show, so you can judge for yourself (sorry for the funky formatting; there were more images of women than men).<\/p>\n

The men<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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The women<\/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>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lynn drew our attention to the American Apparel webpages for men’s and women’s clothes.\u00a0 She notes a distinct difference: On the Women’s clothing pages, the girls are modelling THEMSELVES in addition to the clothes.\u00a0 You see a butt purposefully sticking out here, a shirt pulled up to there, a head thrown back in a coquettish […]<\/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":[279,225,55,2096,2087,2093],"class_list":["post-13703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-objectification","tag-clothesfashion","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-gender-objectification"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703","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=13703"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51793,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13703\/revisions\/51793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}