{"id":35455,"date":"2011-05-02T10:15:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T15:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=35455"},"modified":"2013-11-11T03:19:06","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T08:19:06","slug":"feeling-hot-hot-hot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/05\/02\/feeling-hot-hot-hot\/","title":{"rendered":"Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you just have to laugh. \u00a0Sex is used to sell the most ridiculous things, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/11\/13\/using-sex-to-encourage-organ-donation\/\">like organ donation<\/a>. \u00a0It&#8217;s like marketers think we&#8217;ve Pavlov&#8217;s dogs. \u00a0Show a sexy woman (<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/03\/02\/sex-sells\/\">&#8217;cause sexy women = sex<\/a>) and, rumor has it, people will buy.<\/p>\n<p>When\u00a0Ren\u00e9e sent in this photograph of a storefront display aiming at selling ovens, I felt compelled to share its ridiculousness with you. \u00a0Begin snark:<\/p>\n<p>Ovens are hot. \u00a0Get it. \u00a0They&#8217;re &#8220;hot.&#8221; \u00a0LOL. \u00a0Put her in lingerie, sit her ass on the oven door, add a fire-red wig, and surround her with thermometers. \u00a0Add the words, &#8220;HOT! HOT! HOT!&#8221; \u00a0Maybe if we really overdo it with the metaphor, no one will notice how stupid this is.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/05\/1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35463\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/05\/1.jpg\" width=\"530\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/05\/1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/05\/1-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/05\/1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/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>Sometimes you just have to laugh. \u00a0Sex is used to sell the most ridiculous things, like organ donation. \u00a0It&#8217;s like marketers think we&#8217;ve Pavlov&#8217;s dogs. \u00a0Show a sexy woman (&#8217;cause sexy women = sex) and, rumor has it, people will buy. When\u00a0Ren\u00e9e sent in this photograph of a storefront display aiming at selling ovens, I [&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":[23384,23703,120],"class_list":["post-35455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-marketing","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35455","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=35455"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58891,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35455\/revisions\/58891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}