{"id":346,"date":"2008-01-07T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/01\/07\/commodification-of-alternative-cultures\/"},"modified":"2017-09-29T21:47:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-30T02:47:55","slug":"commodification-of-alternative-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/01\/07\/commodification-of-alternative-cultures\/","title":{"rendered":"Commodification Of Alternative Cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a nice compliment to our post of the <a href=\"http:\/\/sociologicalimages.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/co-opting-punk-culture.html\">t-shirt with <em>pictures<\/em> of safety pins on it<\/a> (an example of the co-optation of punk culture):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-29-at-7.45.27-PM.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-71833\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-29-at-7.45.27-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-29-at-7.45.27-PM.png 828w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-29-at-7.45.27-PM-500x362.png 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/01\/Screen-Shot-2017-09-29-at-7.45.27-PM-768x556.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 390px) 100vw, 390px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">When you&#8217;re so tough that you are compelled to hang a razor blade around your neck, but not so tough that you want an ouchie.<\/p>\n<p>This one is a nice example, also, of the way in which we &#8220;play&#8221; with gender by collapsing traditionally distinct ideas (masculine toughness symbolized by the razor blade and sweet femininity symbolized by the heart) (see also sparkly camouflage, trucker hats with the word &#8220;princess&#8221; written across them, and pink sports jerseys).<\/p>\n<p>Buy the fake razor blade jewelry\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.trendhunter.com\/trends\/razorblade-necklace\/\">here<\/a> (or don&#8217;t).<\/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>This is a nice compliment to our post of the t-shirt with pictures of safety pins on it (an example of the co-optation of punk culture): When you&#8217;re so tough that you are compelled to hang a razor blade around your neck, but not so tough that you want an ouchie. This one is a [&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":[227,55,2096,2087,265,133],"class_list":["post-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-commodification","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-jewelry","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","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=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71835,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions\/71835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}