{"id":57049,"date":"2013-09-09T11:30:48","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T16:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=57049"},"modified":"2013-09-07T15:35:45","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T20:35:45","slug":"57049","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2013\/09\/09\/57049\/","title":{"rendered":"And Now Let’s All Mock Robin Thicke"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Screenshot_2\"<\/a>If you haven’t watched Robin Thicke’s disaster of a music video for Blurred Lines<\/em>, you absolutely must. \u00a0But first, feast your eyes on this quote by Virginia Woolf:<\/p>\n

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses… reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s women’s work to prop up\u00a0male egos<\/del>\u00a0the idea of male\u00a0superiority. \u00a0To me, that’s exactly what’s going on in this video. \u00a0It’s actually quite funny when you look at it that way; it makes the men look so desperate.<\/p>\n

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Anyhow, I’m glad smart, feminist, fearless women and men are fighting back:<\/p>\n

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An exercise in gender bending helps expose the ridiculousness as well. Why does it seem silly when men do it, but not when women do? \u00a0Because it’s women’s job<\/em> to be fans of men<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Also, because I can’t help but add a little more snark, how does someone with ZERO charisma end up a pop star? \u00a0There’s got to be a story here about money and connections.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Marie N., Bronwyn L., and Natalie S. for sending in the videos!<\/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":"

If you haven’t watched Robin Thicke’s disaster of a music video for Blurred Lines, you absolutely must. \u00a0But first, feast your eyes on this quote by Virginia Woolf: Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses… reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. It’s women’s work to prop up\u00a0male egos\u00a0the idea […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":57055,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[279,55,2093,2098,2106,283,120],"class_list":["post-57049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-objectification","tag-gender","tag-gender-objectification","tag-gender-prejudicediscrimination","tag-gender-transgenderintersex","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2013\/09\/Screenshot_17.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57049","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=57049"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57053,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57049\/revisions\/57053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}