{"id":38662,"date":"2011-10-14T10:36:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T15:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=38662"},"modified":"2015-09-19T23:59:50","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T04:59:50","slug":"the-artificiality-of-modern-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/10\/14\/the-artificiality-of-modern-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Artificiality of Modern Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"

I know a guy, bless his heart, who is unendingly surprised to learn that women do things to themselves<\/em> to try to be more conventionally attractive. \u00a0Most recently he learned that bleach blondes are almost always, well, bleached. He thought it was a common natural hair color for adult women. LOL.<\/p>\n

In any case, I thought the photographs below — by Zed Nelson<\/a>, and sent along by\u00a0zeynaparsel — were neat. They disembody the tools women use to enhance their beauty — eyelash extensions<\/a>, breast implants<\/a>, hair extensions<\/a> —\u00a0revealing them as undeniably artificial.<\/p>\n

 <\/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":"

I know a guy, bless his heart, who is unendingly surprised to learn that women do things to themselves to try to be more conventionally attractive. \u00a0Most recently he learned that bleach blondes are almost always, well, bleached. He thought it was a common natural hair color for adult women. LOL. In any case, I […]<\/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":[218,230,251,2089,2103],"class_list":["post-38662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-cosmetic-surgery","tag-hair","tag-gender-beauty","tag-gender-bodies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38662","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=38662"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67957,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38662\/revisions\/67957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}