{"id":2824,"date":"2008-09-23T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=2824"},"modified":"2017-10-01T19:42:02","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T00:42:02","slug":"anti-elitist-health-food-obsession-yay-high-fructose-corn-syrup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/09\/23\/anti-elitist-health-food-obsession-yay-high-fructose-corn-syrup\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Elitist Health Food Obsession = Yay High Fructose Corn Syrup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/09\/Capture2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32328\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/09\/Capture2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"109\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nIn this election, no one wants to be &#8220;elitist.&#8221; You know, the kind of person who went to an Ivy League, speaks perfect English, and avoids processed foods like high-fructose corn syrup.<\/p>\n<p>Ben O. sent us these two ads, made by the Corn Refiners association, in which two historically marginalized groups&#8211;women and blacks&#8211;get it over on historically privileged groups&#8211;men and whites respectively&#8211;by exposing their obsessive-health-food-mania. Ben writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;the implication is that critics of [high-fructose corn syrup] HFCS are privileged (white and\/or male) people who are condescending to inform black and\/or female people that HFCS is bad, although they&#8217;re not only paternalistic but ignorant. And in both ads, standing up for the supposed virtues of high-fructose corn syrup appears to be an empowering action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=gxH[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[youtube]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lQ-ByUx552s[\/youtube]<\/p>\n<p>Nice observation, Ben!<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this election, no one wants to be &#8220;elitist.&#8221; You know, the kind of person who went to an Ivy League, speaks perfect English, and avoids processed foods like high-fructose corn syrup. Ben O. sent us these two ads, made by the Corn Refiners association, in which two historically marginalized groups&#8211;women and blacks&#8211;get it over [&hellip;]<\/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":[2124,55,252,778,285,1760,290],"class_list":["post-2824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foodagriculture","tag-gender","tag-healthmedicine","tag-intersectionality","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-sciencetechnology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824","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=2824"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71926,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2824\/revisions\/71926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}