{"id":35631,"date":"2011-04-27T09:02:04","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T14:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=35631"},"modified":"2011-10-23T15:59:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T20:59:27","slug":"some-men-just-need-to-be-slapped-policing-masculinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/04\/27\/some-men-just-need-to-be-slapped-policing-masculinity\/","title":{"rendered":"“Some Men Just Need to be Slapped”: Policing Masculinity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mimi S.-L. sent in a Brut ad that is a particularly non-subtle example of the policing of masculinity and denigration of things associated with women:<\/p>\n

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If you\u2019re thinking it might not be so bad to go curtain shopping instead of shooting hoops, you may need a quick masculinity check. Hurry over to facebook.com\/BRUT<\/a> to clear your head before it\u2019s too late. If you\u2019re trying to get the guys together for a game of badminton, then it is too late.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I had no idea badminton was so feminized that playing it is a sign a man is truly beyond repair. Learn something every day.<\/p>\n

For more on this ad campaign, see our earlier post on Brut’s “Slap Me” game<\/a> on their website, white allows you to slap men who don’t meet masculine norms (their Facebook page lets you slap everyone from a hippie to a Star Trek fan to guys meant to represent Kelsey Grammar and Tiger Woods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mimi S.-L. sent in a Brut ad that is a particularly non-subtle example of the policing of masculinity and denigration of things associated with women: The text: If you\u2019re thinking it might not be so bad to go curtain shopping instead of shooting hoops, you may need a quick masculinity check. Hurry over to facebook.com\/BRUT […]<\/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":[257,55,2087,133],"class_list":["post-35631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hygiene","tag-gender","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35631","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=35631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40859,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35631\/revisions\/40859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}