{"id":32909,"date":"2011-02-02T13:52:21","date_gmt":"2011-02-02T18:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=32909"},"modified":"2011-10-03T23:25:35","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T04:25:35","slug":"bryan-safi-on-homophobia-and-masculinity-in-marketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/02\/02\/bryan-safi-on-homophobia-and-masculinity-in-marketing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Safi on Homophobia and Masculinity in Marketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/Screen-shot-2011-01-31-at-8.07.14-PM.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-32910 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/Screen-shot-2011-01-31-at-8.07.14-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Emily J. sent us a link to a segment of &#8220;That&#8217;s Gay&#8221; from the TV show <em>Infomania<\/em>. In this piece, Bryan Safi takes a look at a number of recent commercials that ridicule men for being insufficiently hetero-masculine:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><object width=\"400\" height=\"300\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/current.com\/e\/92581445\/en_US\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>For other examples, see <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/11\/04\/homophobia-as-gender-policing\/\">homophobia as gender policing<\/a>, Brut lets you <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/11\/03\/policing-masculinity-bruts-slapping-game\/\">slap the Old Spice guy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/08\/09\/mocking-men-with-femininity\/\">mocking a hockey player with femininity<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/05\/03\/dont-let-lite-beer-turn-you-into-a-girly-man\/\">lite beer makes you girly<\/a>, McCoys crisps give <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/03\/18\/mccoy-crisps-tells-us-how-to-be-a-real-man\/\">lessons on being a real man<\/a>, <em>Cosmo<\/em> warns against <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/01\/24\/are-you-turning-your-boyfriend-into-a-girlie-man\/\">turning your guy into a girlie man<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/12\/07\/dockers-defines-manhood-as-anti-everything-except-dirt-and-patriarchy\/\">Dockers issues guys a man-ifesto<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/11\/18\/are-you-a-real-guy-bvd-wants-to-know\/\">are you manly enough to wear BVDs?<\/a>, and a whole bunch of <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/02\/21\/a-roundup-of-stereotypes-of-masculinity\/\">stereotypes about masculinity in advertising<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily J. sent us a link to a segment of &#8220;That&#8217;s Gay&#8221; from the TV show Infomania. In this piece, Bryan Safi takes a look at a number of recent commercials that ridicule men for being insufficiently hetero-masculine: For other examples, see homophobia as gender policing, Brut lets you slap the Old Spice guy, mocking [&hellip;]<\/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":[257,55,2096,2087,212,54],"class_list":["post-32909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hygiene","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-alcohol","tag-sexual-orientation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32909","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=32909"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32986,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32909\/revisions\/32986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}