{"id":4215,"date":"2008-11-18T01:11:32","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T06:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=4215"},"modified":"2010-11-24T02:47:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-24T07:47:21","slug":"this-is-fascinating-and-im-not-quite-sure-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/11\/18\/this-is-fascinating-and-im-not-quite-sure-why\/","title":{"rendered":"This is Fascinating and I&#8217;m Not Quite Sure Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These ads, for a &#8220;fashion brand for teenagers&#8221; (according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adverbox.com\/shs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adverbox<\/a>), use the trope of colonial taxidermic collection, to promise death to the tween love of Hello Kitty, Snoopie, Minnie and Mickey Mouse, teddy bears, unicorns, Bugs Bunny, Pinnochio, and more.<\/p>\n<p>As a kid who hated Hello Kitty more than life itself and as an adult who just doesn&#8217;t get\u00a0a life-long love of Disney, these ads appeal to me.\u00a0 As a sociologist, their colonial trappings disturb me.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;d love to hear your thoughts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/shs-safari-girl.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4217\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/shs-safari-girl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"353\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/shs-safari-boy.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4216\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2008\/11\/shs-safari-boy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"353\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These ads, for a &#8220;fashion brand for teenagers&#8221; (according to Adverbox), use the trope of colonial taxidermic collection, to promise death to the tween love of Hello Kitty, Snoopie, Minnie and Mickey Mouse, teddy bears, unicorns, Bugs Bunny, Pinnochio, and more. As a kid who hated Hello Kitty more than life itself and as an [&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":[223,232,23703],"class_list":["post-4215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-cultural-imperialismneocolonialism","tag-marketing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215","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=4215"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4271,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4215\/revisions\/4271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}