{"id":49088,"date":"2012-07-06T11:30:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T16:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=49088"},"modified":"2017-09-17T15:34:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-17T20:34:56","slug":"the-sexy-black-eye-its-ugly-relatives-trigger-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/07\/06\/the-sexy-black-eye-its-ugly-relatives-trigger-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"The “Sexy Black Eye” and Its Ugly Relatives (Trigger Warning)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sociologist Michael Kimmel<\/a>\u00a0and a reader named L.A. sent along a link to a fashion spread<\/a> on a Bulgarian magazine’s website. \u00a0It’s another example of the glamorization and sexualization of violence against women. \u00a0Titled, “Victim of Beauty,” the featured photographs have absolutely nothing to offer, short of showing beautiful women who appear to have been beaten, cut, strangled, and burned. \u00a0 As I’ve written elsewhere<\/a>:<\/p>\n

As much as I\u2019m\u00a0bored\u00a0<\/em>of seeing women appear to be beaten, sick, or dead in fashion spreads, it also really\u00a0feels\u00a0<\/em>like we must hate them.\u00a0 Why else?\u00a0 Why else this constant glorification of their abuse?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’m going to show one image and throw the rest behind the jump. \u00a0They’re very disturbing (e.g., women with slit throats and more).\u00a0Take a morbid tour, if you like, through more examples of violence against women in fashion:\u00a0\u00a0the\u00a0fear and suffering of women as a sexual turn on<\/a>,\u00a0dead and deadish ladies in fashion (here<\/a>,\u00a0here<\/a>, and\u00a0here<\/a>),\u00a0ads with women looking supremely uncomfortable<\/a>,\u00a0Asian bondage fantasies<\/a>,\u00a0two more examples of the sexy black eye trope<\/a>, and gulf oil spill themed-examples (here<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

 <\/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":"

Sociologist Michael Kimmel\u00a0and a reader named L.A. sent along a link to a fashion spread on a Bulgarian magazine’s website. \u00a0It’s another example of the glamorization and sexualization of violence against women. \u00a0Titled, “Victim of Beauty,” the featured photographs have absolutely nothing to offer, short of showing beautiful women who appear to have been beaten, […]<\/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":[225,55,2090,129,1814,133],"class_list":["post-49088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-clothesfashion","tag-gender","tag-gender-violence","tag-media","tag-nation-bulgaria","tag-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49088","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=49088"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71569,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49088\/revisions\/71569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}