{"id":15668,"date":"2009-11-15T10:14:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T15:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=15668"},"modified":"2012-09-18T23:51:58","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T04:51:58","slug":"wild-things-animals-people-of-color-and-naked-men-nsfw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/11\/15\/wild-things-animals-people-of-color-and-naked-men-nsfw\/","title":{"rendered":"“Wild Things”: Animals, People of Color, and Naked Men (NSFW)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eloriane sent in a photo shoot for V Magazine<\/em><\/a> <\/em>(September 2009) that is both fascinating and confounding.\u00a0 I noticed two things:<\/p>\n

First, while the women are more or less fully-clothed, the men are naked.\u00a0 Really naked.\u00a0 Well, about as naked as they could be.\u00a0 But the effect is really eerie, with one model looking like some combination of distressed, surprised, and high in most of her shots.\u00a0 It’s nothing like our previous post featuring a photo shoot with clothed women and naked men<\/a>, where the women appear gleeful about the situation.\u00a0 To be honest, I’m not sure what to make of it, but my instinct is that, for some reason, this is not reversing the gendered power dynamic we typically see.<\/p>\n

Coincidentally, Elle P. sent in a Dolce & Gabbana ad to similar effect.\u00a0 You can see it below as well.<\/p>\n

Second, the photo spread is titled “Wild Things” and subtitled “Adopt a Neo-Hippie, Anything Goes Approach to Dressing with Furs, Fringe, and Everything Animal Print.”\u00a0 Then the photo titles refer to American Indians (“Warrior Princess,” “Navajo Sun,” and maybe “Indigo Girl”), Asians (“Eastern Promises”), Gypsies (“Gypsies, Tramps, and Thieves”), and Africans (“Tribal Council”) alongside animals (“Animal Instincts,” and “Wild Things,” of course), and Bohemians (“Boho in Paradise”; more akin to “neo-hippies”?).\u00a0 So, again, we have the association of people of color with animals and human primitivity (here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>)… even as no actual people of color show up in the photo shoot.<\/p>\n

Images after the jump because WAY not safe for work:<\/p>\n

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Here, also, is the Dolce & Gabbana ad sent in by Elle P.\u00a0 Again, I don’t see a confident, strong woman in this ad; I see a woman in spike heels trying to fend off three men who are being aggressive with her and each other.<\/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":"

Eloriane sent in a photo shoot for V Magazine (September 2009) that is both fascinating and confounding.\u00a0 I noticed two things: First, while the women are more or less fully-clothed, the men are naked.\u00a0 Really naked.\u00a0 Well, about as naked as they could be.\u00a0 But the effect is really eerie, with one model looking like […]<\/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":[155,225,55,778,285,1758,1759,1760],"class_list":["post-15668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-animals","tag-clothesfashion","tag-gender","tag-intersectionality","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-american-indiansaboriginals","tag-raceethnicity-asianspacific-islanders","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15668","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=15668"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15676,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15668\/revisions\/15676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}