{"id":183,"date":"2008-05-02T01:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T06:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/04\/25\/what-weve-been-doing-behind-your-back-april-2008\/"},"modified":"2010-11-23T22:36:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T03:36:24","slug":"what-weve-been-doing-behind-your-back-april-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/05\/02\/what-weve-been-doing-behind-your-back-april-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociological Images Update (April 2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In order to reduce redundancy and not overload your inboxes, we&#8217;re now occasionally adding to previous posts instead of creating new ones. But never fear, once a month we&#8217;ll let you know where we&#8217;ve added content so that you won&#8217;t miss a thing! Here&#8217;s this month&#8217;s enriched posts:<\/p>\n<p>Molly M. sent us a link to a feel &#8216;er up mousepad. We added it to our post on <a href=\"http:\/\/sociologicalimages.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/products-shaped-like-female-bodies.html\">products shaped like female bodies<\/a> (scroll down to the bottom). Thanks Molly!<\/p>\n<p>We added another ad capitalizing on <a href=\"http:\/\/sociologicalimages.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/fetishization-of-black-womens-behinds.html\">the fetishization of black women&#8217;s behinds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We added a new image, found over at <a href=\"http:\/\/copyranter.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/camparis-new-superliminal-print-ad.html\">Copyranter<\/a>, to our post on <a href=\"http:\/\/sociologicalimages.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/subliminal-sex-in-media.html\">subliminal and not-so-subliminal sex in the media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We also stole from <a href=\"http:\/\/copyranter.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/camparis-new-superliminal-print-ad.html\">Copyranter<\/a> a 1968 American Airlines ad encouraging travellers to think of the stewardess as their mother (their sexy mother, of course). We added the incestuous ad to our post (<a href=\"http:\/\/sociologicalimages.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/1965-american-airlines-ad-objectifying.html\">here<\/a>) featuring a 1965 American Airlines that suggests that the travellers are constantly kidnapping and marrying their stewardesses.<\/p>\n<p>We added another example of a company <a href=\"http:\/\/sociologicalimages.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/trivializing-womens-power.html\">trivializing women&#8217;s power<\/a> to sell product. This time it&#8217;s Special K urging women to claim &#8220;Victory&#8221; over their fat bodies.<\/p>\n<p>To our post about <a href=\"http:\/\/sociologicalimages.blogspot.com\/2007\/09\/bugs-bunny-in-blackface.html\">Bugs Bunny in Blackface<\/a>, we added an advertisement from a 1942 cartoon called &#8220;Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we added a Hillary Clinton toilet brush to our <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/04\/28\/blatant-sexist-anti-hillary-clinton-product-at-popular-store\/\">Hillary Clinton nutcracker<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to reduce redundancy and not overload your inboxes, we&#8217;re now occasionally adding to previous posts instead of creating new ones. But never fear, once a month we&#8217;ll let you know where we&#8217;ve added content so that you won&#8217;t miss a thing! 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