{"id":3960,"date":"2008-11-04T00:52:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T05:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=3960"},"modified":"2010-11-24T02:36:48","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T07:36:48","slug":"reuters-reminds-us-that-first-lady-is-a-white-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/11\/04\/reuters-reminds-us-that-first-lady-is-a-white-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuters Reminds us that Being the First Lady is a White Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

In U.S. culture, the\u00a0stereotype of Black women includes being too loud, aggressive, etc (i.e., masculine).\u00a0 Thus, to fit into\u00a0the role of first lady,\u00a0according to Reuters, Michelle Obama must “soften” herself.\u00a0 Note that the text accompanying this headline emphasizes that she’s just going to be a mom.<\/p>\n

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In contrast, Cindy McCain already “fits” “with her elegant clothes and pefectly coiffed blond hair.”<\/p>\n

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Click on either image to enlarge.\u00a0 Full articles can be found here<\/a> and here<\/a>. Via Jezebel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See also\u00a0this post<\/a> where Michelle Obama is called an “angry black woman.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In U.S. culture, the\u00a0stereotype of Black women includes being too loud, aggressive, etc (i.e., masculine).\u00a0 Thus, to fit into\u00a0the role of first lady,\u00a0according to Reuters, Michelle Obama must “soften” herself.\u00a0 Note that the text accompanying this headline emphasizes that she’s just going to be a mom. In contrast, Cindy McCain already “fits” “with her elegant […]<\/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":[55,2094,778,129,85,238,285,1760,1757],"class_list":["post-3960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-politics","tag-intersectionality","tag-media","tag-politics","tag-election-2008","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960","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=3960"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29857,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3960\/revisions\/29857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}