{"id":39211,"date":"2011-09-06T10:15:22","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T15:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=39211"},"modified":"2017-09-17T14:04:08","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T19:04:08","slug":"trivializing-domestic-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/09\/06\/trivializing-domestic-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"On Not Giving “Fashion” a Pass (Trigger Warning)"},"content":{"rendered":"

This seems like a good time to reiterate a simple truth: It can be art\/fashion\/satire\/cutting edge etc. and…\u00a0and and and<\/em> it can be offensive, trivializing, and triggering.<\/p>\n

Eight readers sent in links to an ad for a\u00a0hair salon called Fluid. The salon, which has a history of using “shocking” ads (like this one after the Gulf oil spill<\/a>), is attracting criticism for an ad<\/a> featuring a woman being offered jewelry by a man; she appears to have a black eye. \u00a0Six more sent in a link to a\u00a0Glee <\/em>star,\u00a0Heather Morris, in a photoshoot by Tyler Shields<\/a>, also with a black eye.<\/p>\n

Responding to the criticism<\/a>, Fluid said it was being “cutting-edge,” “satirical,” “high fashion,” and “editorial,” and “artistic.” \u00a0It doesn’t matter what you call it, what tradition it references, or whether you’re trying to get a reaction; your product is still part of a wider cultural context. \u00a0Accordingly, you may get called out for being insensitive to other people’s pain. In which case, probably best not to call the critics hypocrites and suggest that\u00a0there are bigger problems in the world than the trivialization of domestic violence. \u00a0Or go right ahead, I guess<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks to\u00a0Eric S.,\u00a0Kristina V., YetAnotherGirl, Dave S.,\u00a0Caitlin R., @CreativeTweets,\u00a0Meghan H., Dave S., Judith B., Olivia G., Alexis W., Theresa W., and an anonymous reader for the tips!<\/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":"

This seems like a good time to reiterate a simple truth: It can be art\/fashion\/satire\/cutting edge etc. and…\u00a0and and and it can be offensive, trivializing, and triggering. Eight readers sent in links to an ad for a\u00a0hair salon called Fluid. The salon, which has a history of using “shocking” ads (like this one after the […]<\/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":[8070,251,225,55,2090,23703,133],"class_list":["post-39211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-artliterature","tag-hair","tag-clothesfashion","tag-gender","tag-gender-violence","tag-marketing","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39211","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=39211"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71488,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39211\/revisions\/71488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}