{"id":3747,"date":"2008-10-30T01:20:31","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T06:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=3747"},"modified":"2010-11-24T02:28:10","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T07:28:10","slug":"why-do-i-both-love-and-hate-this-commercial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/10\/30\/why-do-i-both-love-and-hate-this-commercial\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do I both Love and Hate this Commercial?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, the commercial (found <a href=\"http:\/\/adweek.blogs.com\/adfreak\/2008\/10\/hippies-still-have-soft-spot-for-volkswagen.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/KdDZ6w35VRM&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>I love and hate this commercial because of androcentrism.\u00a0 Androcentrism is the idea that we value masculinity over femininity such that we admire both men and women for performing masculinity.\u00a0 Androcentrism explains why we tend to like it when women drink beer, play sports, and become lawyers, but do not typically think it&#8217;s equally awesome when men cry, wear skirts, learn to knit, or become interior designers.\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/06\/26\/how-to-do-masculinity\/\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a> is my crash course on androcentrism.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I kinda love the fact that the hot chick in this commercial represents strength and we&#8217;re obviously supposed to think she&#8217;s awesome.\u00a0 But the guy in the commercial, who\u00a0is supposed to represent sissy hippy environmentalism, doesn&#8217;t exactly come off as awesome.\u00a0 He is funny, stupid, ridiculous.\u00a0 And I kind of hate that.\u00a0 In a perfect world, men would be allowed to do things associated with femininity without being considered uncool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, the commercial (found here): I love and hate this commercial because of androcentrism.\u00a0 Androcentrism is the idea that we value masculinity over femininity such that we admire both men and women for performing masculinity.\u00a0 Androcentrism explains why we tend to like it when women drink beer, play sports, and become lawyers, but do not [&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":[2123,55,2087,2098,283,221],"class_list":["post-3747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-environmentnature","tag-gender","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-gender-prejudicediscrimination","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-cars"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747","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=3747"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29832,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3747\/revisions\/29832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}