{"id":1841,"date":"2008-07-14T01:55:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-14T06:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2010-11-24T00:02:37","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T05:02:37","slug":"your-destiny-is-in-your-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/07\/14\/your-destiny-is-in-your-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Destiny is in Your Hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a print ad for Bongo clothing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/07\/bongo.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1840\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/07\/bongo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"693\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The thing that caught my attention (other than the absurd, gratuitous sexual imagery) is that, as far as I can tell, Bongo only sells women&#8217;s clothing.  This means that the ad isn&#8217;t supposed to have some sort of Axe Body Spray-esque appeal to men (i.e., &#8220;Wear Our Jeans And An Ambidextrous Woman Will Give You And Another Guy A Handjob!&#8221;).  Thus, the point of the ad appears to be that women should want to purchase and wear a denim vest\/corduroy miniskirt combo, so that they may earn the right to sexually service men in a way that reinforces the invisibility of female sexuality (except as a mechanism by which men can be satisfied).<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just not a good enough reason to wear corduroy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a print ad for Bongo clothing: The thing that caught my attention (other than the absurd, gratuitous sexual imagery) is that, as far as I can tell, Bongo only sells women&#8217;s clothing. This means that the ad isn&#8217;t supposed to have some sort of Axe Body Spray-esque appeal to men (i.e., &#8220;Wear Our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[225,55,120],"class_list":["post-1841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clothesfashion","tag-gender","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841","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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29571,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1841\/revisions\/29571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}