{"id":3056,"date":"2008-11-01T01:00:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T06:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=3056"},"modified":"2010-11-24T02:39:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T07:39:36","slug":"what-weve-been-up-to-behind-your-back-october-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/11\/01\/what-weve-been-up-to-behind-your-back-october-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociological Images Update (October 2008)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Readers!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Please enjoy this\u00a0collection of posts that we&#8217;ve enhanced while you&#8217;ve been busy reading our new stuff and, um, all the election coverage you can stomach.\u00a0\u00a0There will be more new material in our Special\u00a0Election Round-Up!\u00a0 Look for it on the morning of Nov. 4th.\u00a0 But for now, click on these links and look for the bright red <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">NEW!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tini Puppini is a hyper-sexualized fake pet dog that combines sexualization with anthropomorphization in a super creepy way. \u00a0Just scroll past the sexualized equines in <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/05\/14\/taking-the-sexualization-of-young-girls-to-a-whole-new-place\/\" target=\"_self\">this post<\/a> to the sexualized canines. It&#8217;s weird, I promise.<\/p>\n<p>Single? Are the odds in your favor? We can tell you. We&#8217;d put up <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/04\/08\/the-marriage-market\/\" target=\"_self\">a map showing where single men outnumber single women and vice versa<\/a>. And now we&#8217;ve added a link to an interactive map where you can choose particular age ranges and a screen shot of the map for the 30-45 and the 50-65 range.<\/p>\n<p>Promoting smoking with doctors and Santa Claus? Oh yes! See some more vintage cigarette ads <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/07\/30\/amazing-old-smoking-ads\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>miz_geek, in the comments to <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/10\/20\/sexism-in-aviation-then-and-now\/#comment-3721\">this post<\/a>, pointed us to a commercial for Korean Air with truly blatant ejaculation imagery. Watch it here in <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/07\/10\/ejaculation-imagery-in-ads\/\">our post where we collect, um, ejaculation imagery<\/a> (scroll to the bottom).<\/p>\n<p>Commenters Eoin and T.B. pointed us to another <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/09\/20\/world-war-ii-carpool-propaganda\/\" target=\"_self\">World War II carpool propaganda poster<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a hospital waiting room, we saw another sign instructing employees to do emotion work.\u00a0 We added the images and further discussion on the topic to <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/08\/11\/emotion-work-at-the-days-inn\/\" target=\"_self\">this post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We added <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/09\/22\/hispanic-food\/\" target=\"_self\">another instance<\/a> of the use of the government-invented term &#8220;Hispanic.&#8221; This time it involves peanuts!<\/p>\n<p>By &#8220;traditional marriage&#8221; do you mean polygamy?\u00a0 We added two more examples of\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/05\/18\/in-honor-of-california-ruling-that-same-sex-couples-have-a-constitutional-right-to-marriage\/\" target=\"_self\">satirical treatment of the traditional marriage<\/a>.\u00a0 The satiricist makes a pro-gay marriage argument by pointing to the trouble with the idea of &#8220;tradition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scott W. sent us a great example of the use of the implicit promise of sex with a hot chick to sell, um, condominiums.\u00a0 We added it to <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/01\/16\/using-womens-bodies-to-sell-residential-developments\/\" target=\"_self\">our post along that theme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Our post featuring the sexualization of food is getting ridiculously extensive.\u00a0 But when Denia sent us in a picture of hotdogs that said &#8220;Undress me,&#8221; we couldn&#8217;t resist adding them.\u00a0 Click <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/03\/25\/sexualizing-and-gendering-food\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a> and scroll all the way down.<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEW SAMPLE ASSIGNMENT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Karryn Lintelman generously allowed us to reproduce her assignment, The Rhetoric of Pop Culture, using Sociological Images and other resources.\u00a0 Check it out\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2007\/07\/22\/sample-assignments\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Readers!\u00a0 Please enjoy this\u00a0collection of posts that we&#8217;ve enhanced while you&#8217;ve been busy reading our new stuff and, um, all the election coverage you can stomach.\u00a0\u00a0There will be more new material in our Special\u00a0Election Round-Up!\u00a0 Look for it on the morning of Nov. 4th.\u00a0 But for now, click on these links and look for [&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":[208],"class_list":["post-3056","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\/3056","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=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3879,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}