{"id":39743,"date":"2011-10-19T11:23:50","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T16:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=39743"},"modified":"2013-11-09T05:18:40","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T10:18:40","slug":"bias-and-body-standards-for-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/10\/19\/bias-and-body-standards-for-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Bias and Body Standards for Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA post for Love Your Body Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Krista, Debbie, and\u00a0Diego sent in the following commercial for FreeScore. It nicely illustrates our bias against men who don’t live up to idealized standards of masculinity. \u00a0That is, men who are short, bald, and soft.<\/p>\n

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Like a bad credit score, men who aren’t young and handsome are a total drag. Klutzy, a potential serial killer, afraid to stand up for himself… his pain is our last laugh. \u00a0Disgusting.<\/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":"

A post for Love Your Body Day. Krista, Debbie, and\u00a0Diego sent in the following commercial for FreeScore. It nicely illustrates our bias against men who don’t live up to idealized standards of masculinity. \u00a0That is, men who are short, bald, and soft. Like a bad credit score, men who aren’t young and handsome are a […]<\/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":[349,218,244,251,55,2103,2087,2098,2090,12467,283,133],"class_list":["post-39743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ageaging","tag-bodies","tag-fat","tag-hair","tag-gender","tag-gender-bodies","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-gender-prejudicediscrimination","tag-gender-violence","tag-heightheightism","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39743","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=39743"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58645,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39743\/revisions\/58645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}