{"id":17832,"date":"2009-12-11T10:28:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-11T15:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=17832"},"modified":"2017-09-16T19:18:02","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T00:18:02","slug":"football-proves-that-lautners-like-totally-straight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/12\/11\/football-proves-that-lautners-like-totally-straight\/","title":{"rendered":"Football Proves that Lautner’s, Like, Totally Straight"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth T., my awesome former student, asked us to write about Taylor Lautner’s Rolling Stone<\/em> cover<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Of course, everyone’s been talking about\u00a0 It’s either “oh he’s so hot!” or “he’s just seventeen! child pornography!”\u00a0 But what I think is hilarious is the fact that they had to have him posing with a football.<\/p>\n

You see, in this photograph, Lautner is a sex object.\u00a0 And, as I’ve written before<\/a>, a “sexual object is to be presented as passive, consumable, inert (remember, only one person gets \u201cfucked\u201d).”\u00a0 And who does the fucking?\u00a0 Men.\u00a0 Real men.\u00a0 And who gets fucked?\u00a0 Women and womanly men (you might know them as “fags”).<\/p>\n

So Lautner, by virtue of being objectified, threatens to also be seen as gay:<\/p>\n

\"Capture2\"<\/p>\n

Apparently they’d rather break one of the golden rules of photography (don’t have anything coming out of the subject’s head), than allow Lautner’s sexual objectification call his sexuality into question.<\/p>\n

Yes, yes we get it.\u00a0 Lautner is a guy’s guy.\u00a0 I mean, wait a second, he’s a girl’s guy.\u00a0 Wait!\u00a0 I mean he likes dudes! \u00a0 No, not that way!\u00a0 In a bros before hos way.\u00a0 He likes dudes best, unless it’s for sex, then he likes girls!\u00a0 He likes girls!\u00a0 Even though he’s all sexy and wet and objectified, he’s not a fag okay!\u00a0 We swear!\u00a0 Look!\u00a0 THERE’S A FOOTBAAAAAALLLLLLL!<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabeth T., my awesome former student, asked us to write about Taylor Lautner’s Rolling Stone cover. Of course, everyone’s been talking about\u00a0 It’s either “oh he’s so hot!” or “he’s just seventeen! child pornography!”\u00a0 But what I think is hilarious is the fact that they had to have him posing with a football. You see, […]<\/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":[279,55,2087,2093,120,54],"class_list":["post-17832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-objectification","tag-gender","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-gender-objectification","tag-sex","tag-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17832","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=17832"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71188,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17832\/revisions\/71188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}