{"id":48390,"date":"2012-06-14T11:31:24","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T16:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=48390"},"modified":"2012-06-14T11:31:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T16:31:24","slug":"presenting-women-as-enemies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/06\/14\/presenting-women-as-enemies\/","title":{"rendered":"Presenting Women as Enemies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca sent in an ad she saw in an Australian women&#8217;s magazine that explicitly reinforces the idea that women are in perpetual competition with one another. The ad declares an anti-aging product a weapon to be used &#8220;in the war against other women,&#8221; reminding women that we should consider ourselves to be in a battle with one another over who is most physically attractive &#8212; and thus, presumably, most likely to win the ultimate prize of remaining sexually attractive to men:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/06\/trilogy.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-48391\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/06\/trilogy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"395\" height=\"617\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out our earlier posts on the <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/04\/18\/women-as-catty\/\">discourse of women-as-competitors<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/07\/13\/how-objectification-of-women-makes-women-hate-each-other\/\">how objectification divides women<\/a>, the<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/09\/15\/dont-hate-me-because-im-beautiful\/\"> &#8220;don&#8217;t hate me because I&#8217;m beautiful&#8221; advertising trope<\/a>, and an Israeli Bacardi ad campaign that told women to <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/06\/22\/bacardi-says-get-an-ugly-friend-to-make-you-look-better\/\">get an ugly friend to make themselves look better<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rebecca sent in an ad she saw in an Australian women&#8217;s magazine that explicitly reinforces the idea that women are in perpetual competition with one another. The ad declares an anti-aging product a weapon to be used &#8220;in the war against other women,&#8221; reminding women that we should consider ourselves to be in a battle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2089,2096],"class_list":["post-48390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-beauty","tag-gender-femininity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48390","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48393,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48390\/revisions\/48393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}