{"id":61577,"date":"2014-02-14T08:45:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T13:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=61577"},"modified":"2014-02-11T13:29:29","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T18:29:29","slug":"buy-flowers-or-youre-a-dipshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/02\/14\/buy-flowers-or-youre-a-dipshit\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy Flowers or You&#8217;re a Dipshit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These four commercials for FTD Florists appear to be for\u00a0(white) couples who hate each other, and for good reason. \u00a0I would argue that they traffic in unappealing gender stereotypes, but it&#8217;s much worse than that. \u00a0They suggest that people, in general, are just stupid and unlikeable. \u00a0I truly don&#8217;t know what marketers are thinking when they portray <em>their own consumers<\/em> in such a light. \u00a0Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day everyone. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Te8ABhFTshE?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uiO8MYo70Sk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CpqNhFNrTjk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YJree_CiCPA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/copyranter.blogspot.com\/2014\/02\/ftd-florists-presents-four-whitest.html\" target=\"_blank\">Copyranter<\/a>.<\/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>These four commercials for FTD Florists appear to be for\u00a0(white) couples who hate each other, and for good reason. \u00a0I would argue that they traffic in unappealing gender stereotypes, but it&#8217;s much worse than that. \u00a0They suggest that people, in general, are just stupid and unlikeable. \u00a0I truly don&#8217;t know what marketers are thinking when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":61579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[254,129,23703],"class_list":["post-61577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-holidays","tag-media","tag-marketing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/02\/53.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61577","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=61577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61580,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61577\/revisions\/61580"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}