{"id":36482,"date":"2011-06-09T10:19:15","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T15:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=36482"},"modified":"2013-11-11T02:59:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T07:59:44","slug":"cultural-messages-about-attractiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/06\/09\/cultural-messages-about-attractiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Messages About Attractiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"

While some bodies are socially-defined as For Display, others are defined as embarrassing or disgusting. \u00a0Indigo and Artemis\u00a0sent in a great example of these distinctions being reinforced. This series of billboards appeared in\u00a0The Netherlands with the tagline “The Sooner You Advertise Here, the Better”:<\/p>\n

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\nThe billboard humorously advertises the billboards availability for advertising, a clever version of “Your Ad Here.” \u00a0It does so, of course, by suggesting that the model’s body is so repulsive that the threat of simply seeing it should be enough to make us reach for our wallets. \u00a0While cultural beliefs about who is and isn’t attractive are often framed as biological or evolutionary, it can’t be denied that, at least in this case, we are receiving a strong social message as well.<\/p>\n

Via Copyranter<\/a> and The Daily Dish<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While some bodies are socially-defined as For Display, others are defined as embarrassing or disgusting. \u00a0Indigo and Artemis\u00a0sent in a great example of these distinctions being reinforced. This series of billboards appeared in\u00a0The Netherlands with the tagline “The Sooner You Advertise Here, the Better”: The billboard humorously advertises the billboards availability for advertising, a clever […]<\/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":[218,244,329,23703],"class_list":["post-36482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-fat","tag-emotion","tag-marketing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36482","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=36482"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58850,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36482\/revisions\/58850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}