{"id":14732,"date":"2009-10-23T10:13:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T15:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=14732"},"modified":"2017-09-16T18:51:17","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T23:51:17","slug":"sex-and-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/10\/23\/sex-and-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex and Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Emily L. sent in a link to the t-shirt below.\u00a0 It was made by students at Houston&#8217;s Memorial High (go, Mustangs!) for the yearly football game against their rival, Stratford.\u00a0 It nicely reveals how sex and domination are conflated in American society.\u00a0 On the shirt, &#8220;beating&#8221; Stratford at football is conflated with &#8220;fucking&#8221; them.\u00a0 As the text says: &#8220;F&#8217;n Spartans Up Since 1962&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14733\" title=\"500x_misogynyhigh\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/10\/500x_misogynyhigh.jpg\" alt=\"500x_misogynyhigh\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/08\/30\/the-hate-f\/\" target=\"_self\">I&#8217;ve discussed elsewhere<\/a>, it should be really troubling to us all that &#8220;fuck&#8221; has the double meaning that it does.<\/p>\n<p>More conflations of sex and power <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/12\/09\/power-asymmetry-as-sexy\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/26\/passion-or-attack-update\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/04\/11\/an-alternative-image-of-love\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/05\/29\/sexualized-images-of-female-dominance\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/08\/23\/russia-rising-conflating-sexual-and-military-prowess\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/12\/27\/sex-and-dating-as-a-hunt\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/01\/15\/sex-and-power-in-a-campari-calendar\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/03\/30\/power-and-sex-in-a-set-of-fashion-photos\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/05\/31\/sexualized-violence-in-a-lady-gaga-video\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/09\/24\/power-sex-and-shoelaces\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Borrowed from <a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5375404\/nothing-says-school-spirit-like-performing-obscene-acts-on-a-cheerleader\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jezebel<\/a>.<\/p>\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>Emily L. sent in a link to the t-shirt below.\u00a0 It was made by students at Houston&#8217;s Memorial High (go, Mustangs!) for the yearly football game against their rival, Stratford.\u00a0 It nicely reveals how sex and domination are conflated in American society.\u00a0 On the shirt, &#8220;beating&#8221; Stratford at football is conflated with &#8220;fucking&#8221; them.\u00a0 As [&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":[223,23384,34,55,2099,2101,2090,120],"class_list":["post-14732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-education","tag-gender","tag-gender-childrenyouth","tag-gender-education","tag-gender-violence","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14732","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=14732"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71131,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14732\/revisions\/71131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}