{"id":17784,"date":"2009-12-08T13:46:20","date_gmt":"2009-12-08T18:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=17784"},"modified":"2009-12-08T13:46:20","modified_gmt":"2009-12-08T18:46:20","slug":"the-discovery-channel-not-for-womens-eyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/12\/08\/the-discovery-channel-not-for-womens-eyes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Discovery Channel: &#8220;Not for Women&#8217;s Eyes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benno K. sent in a link to some ads he saw in the Netherlands for the Discovery Channel, which Benno describes as &#8220;the channel that used to be for science, but is now mostly explosions and motor bikes.&#8221; In both posters the men have &#8220;women&#8217;s&#8221; eyes&#8211;that is, they appear wide-eyed and long-lashed, with mascara:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17782 aligncenter\" title=\"Discovery1\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/12\/Discovery1.jpg\" alt=\"Discovery1\" width=\"350\" height=\"458\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17783 aligncenter\" title=\"discovery2\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/12\/discovery2.jpg\" alt=\"discovery2\" width=\"417\" height=\"270\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The caption says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not for women&#8217;s eyes. Discovery Channel has television men want to watch. Exciting, smart, interesting, adventurous, and most of all real. Watch for yourself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know that as a woman, I <em>hate<\/em> smart, interesting stuff. It&#8217;s just <em>too hard<\/em> to understand and it makes my brain hurt. I try to only watch TV shows that are dull, dumb, boring, cautious, and totally fake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benno K. sent in a link to some ads he saw in the Netherlands for the Discovery Channel, which Benno describes as &#8220;the channel that used to be for science, but is now mostly explosions and motor bikes.&#8221; In both posters the men have &#8220;women&#8217;s&#8221; eyes&#8211;that is, they appear wide-eyed and long-lashed, with mascara: The [&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":[55,2096,2087,343,1789],"class_list":["post-17784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-tvmovies","tag-nation-the-netherlands"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17784","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=17784"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17786,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17784\/revisions\/17786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}