{"id":35540,"date":"2011-04-25T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-25T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=35540"},"modified":"2013-11-11T03:20:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T08:20:33","slug":"women-are-wild-animals-men-are-hunters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/04\/25\/women-are-wild-animals-men-are-hunters\/","title":{"rendered":"Women are Wild Animals; Men are Hunters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dmitriy T.M. sent in another example, via <a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/#!5795049\/dos-equis-shows-you-how-to-capture--tame-a-woman-in-the-wild\" target=\"_blank\">Jezebel<\/a>, of the use of hunting as a metaphor for dating\/attaining sex with women. \u00a0The metaphor portrays men as predators and women as prey, \u00a0suggesting that women are inherently unwilling and men inherently\u00a0deceitful, coercive, and aggressive. \u00a0This sets the stage, discursively, for sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>Throw in a couple men representing a non-specifically &#8220;primitive&#8221; culture to remind us that such a relationships is &#8220;natural,&#8221; and you&#8217;ve got this Dos Equis ad:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/141.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35544\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/141.jpg\" width=\"344\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/141.jpg 430w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/141-333x500.jpg 333w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more of this metaphor, see <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/12\/27\/sex-and-dating-as-a-hunt\/\">Sex and Dating as a Hunt<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/10\/28\/beer-sex-and-the-hunt\/\">Beer, Sex, and the Hunt<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/03\/24\/taxidermied-girl-parts\/\">Taxidermied Girl Parts<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/01\/10\/hunting-for-bambi-that-is-women\/\">Hunting for Bambi<\/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>Dmitriy T.M. sent in another example, via Jezebel, of the use of hunting as a metaphor for dating\/attaining sex with women. \u00a0The metaphor portrays men as predators and women as prey, \u00a0suggesting that women are inherently unwilling and men inherently\u00a0deceitful, coercive, and aggressive. \u00a0This sets the stage, discursively, for sexual assault. Throw in a couple [&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":[387,23384,55,2090,701,285,120],"class_list":["post-35540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-dating","tag-social-construction-discourselanguage","tag-gender","tag-gender-violence","tag-modernprimitive","tag-raceethnicity","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35540","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=35540"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58901,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35540\/revisions\/58901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}