As always, we are busy behind the scenes.\u00a0 Here are some of the posts we have enhanced over the course of this bizarre election month:<\/p>\n
We added several images to this post<\/a> about the media’s sexualization of Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin, as well as another image to this post<\/a> about the “Drill Baby, Drill” t-shirt featuring McCain doing Palin doggy-style (which we thought, for some reason, merited its own post).<\/p>\n We added an interview with the creators of Obama Waffles to the post about “On the Campaign Trail.”<\/a><\/p>\n We have a fantastic collection of ads that demonstrate how white standards of beauty are applied to black women.\u00a0 In them, the black and white women look almost identical.\u00a0 We added another couple ads for Maybelline where “diversity” looks surprisingly like twins.\u00a0 Scroll to the bottom here.<\/a><\/p>\n We added two more\u00a0examples to our lists of ways in which people of color are used in advertising aimed at white people: to associate the product with a racial stereotype<\/a> and to signify human variation<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Ben O. had another image of a scale conflating health and weight.\u00a0 We added it to our other example here<\/a>.<\/p>\n We added two new images to this post<\/a> about the frequently contradictory messages we get about eating healthier. The first image shows a sticker on a vending machine encouraging people to make healthy choices about what to eat. The second shows a picture of the products actually for sale in the vending machine, which don’t exactly provide consumers with a panoply of healthy options.<\/p>\n We added three new images to our post on The Frightened Sperm<\/a>.\u00a0 One is a cartoon depicting Michael Phelps as the winning sperm, one is a clip from The Family Guy showing Stewie in a spermship, and the last depicts an egg actively guiding some sperm while providing barriers to others.\u00a0 Thanks to commenters Noumenon, MW,\u00a0and Ranah respectively for these images!<\/p>\n We added another vintage douche ad<\/a> (this one for a douche made from Lysol).\u00a0 Thanks to Holly Mac. for this one!<\/p>\n We added another<\/em> image of sexualized food to this post<\/a>, this time the cow used to advertise Skinny Cow ice cream (scroll all the way to the bottom). Thanks to Blanca for pointing it out!<\/p>\n We added to this post<\/a> about how Dove, a brand with the much-touted “Real Woman” ad campaign, and Axe, a brand marketed to men using highly sexualized images of women, are both manufactured by Unilever. The new content is a link to a post from Moment of Choice about a woman’s experience auditioning before a panel of men for one of the Dove commercials.<\/p>\n We added another image in our post about the Declare Yourself ad campaign,<\/a> which we initially discussed in the context of Jessica Alba’s appearance in one of the ads.<\/p>\n To our post showing re-touching of celebrities, we added a link to a photo gallery comparing photos of celebrities to their Photoshopped images on magazine covers.\u00a0 See it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Regarding how girls are socialized to think of themselves as high-maintenance divas, we added another image here<\/a>.<\/p>\n CONSOLIDATIONS:<\/strong><\/p>\n We combined two posts about Heelarious, a company making high heels for infants, into one post<\/a>.<\/p>\n We consolidated two posts about policing masculinity that included Snickers ads featuring Mr. T into one post, found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n ALSO:<\/strong><\/p>\n We added another class assignment, this one by Alicia Revely<\/a>.\u00a0 Read it along with our other class assignments<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As always, we are busy behind the scenes.\u00a0 Here are some of the posts we have enhanced over the course of this bizarre election month: We added several images to this post about the media’s sexualization of Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin, as well as another image to this post about the “Drill Baby, Drill” […]<\/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":[208],"class_list":["post-2377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-updates"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377","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=2377"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29750,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2377\/revisions\/29750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}