{"id":61348,"date":"2014-02-08T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=61348"},"modified":"2014-02-08T13:57:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T18:57:08","slug":"shed-your-weight-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/02\/08\/shed-your-weight-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Shed Your Weight Problem&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our recent post collecting examples of <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/01\/26\/resistance-to-objectifying-advertising\/\" target=\"_blank\">creative resistance to sexually objectifying advertising<\/a> was a big hit, which makes me think y&#8217;all are going to love this one. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nedic.ca\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">National Eating Disorder Information Center<\/a> paid to put up a creative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nedic.ca\/pledge\/?page_id=655\" target=\"_blank\">ad\/trash can<\/a>. \u00a0It reads &#8220;Shed your weight problem here&#8221; and encourages passers-by to dispose of their fashion magazines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/02\/24.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-61349\" alt=\"2\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/02\/24-500x738.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/02\/24-500x738.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/02\/24.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/02\/32.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-61350\" alt=\"3\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/02\/32-500x461.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/02\/32-500x461.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/02\/32.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>Another great example of how organizations can creatively push back against the harmful messages spread by corporations for profit.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our recent post collecting examples of creative resistance to sexually objectifying advertising was a big hit, which makes me think y&#8217;all are going to love this one. \u00a0The National Eating Disorder Information Center paid to put up a creative ad\/trash can. \u00a0It reads &#8220;Shed your weight problem here&#8221; and encourages passers-by to dispose of their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":61350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12508,218,244,279,225,2124,55,2089,2095,2093,129,23703,23641],"class_list":["post-61348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-activismsocial-movements","tag-bodies","tag-fat","tag-objectification","tag-clothesfashion","tag-foodagriculture","tag-gender","tag-gender-beauty","tag-gender-feminismactivism","tag-gender-objectification","tag-media","tag-marketing","tag-raceethnicity-beauty"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/02\/32.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61348","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=61348"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61399,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61348\/revisions\/61399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}