{"id":616,"date":"2008-04-11T03:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T08:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/04\/11\/an-alternative-image-of-love\/"},"modified":"2009-11-28T19:34:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T00:34:52","slug":"an-alternative-image-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/04\/11\/an-alternative-image-of-love\/","title":{"rendered":"An Alternative Image of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elforastero.blogalia.com\/\">Miguel in Barcelona<\/a> sent us this government-sponsored poster aimed at promoting egalitarian relationships. He translates the text as:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The love has to be free<br \/>\nFree of machismo<br \/>\nFree of fights<br \/>\nFree of jealousy<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187910894014389746\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2p009nb0.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/p009nb0.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">This image, as a representation of idealized <em>egalitarian<\/em> love, is a nice contrast to the representations of love common in the U.S. (and in Spain?) that make power asymmetry sexy, desirable, and constitutive of love. Consider the love affair between <a href=\"http:\/\/sociologicalimages.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/power-asymmetry-as-sexy.html\">this apple and pear<\/a> and these two images (which look more like the fruit than Miguel&#8217;s image above):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/432violencepowersexy.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187913359325617682\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/432violencepowersexy.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/violencepowersexy.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5187912912649018882\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/blogger2wp\/2violencepowersexy.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Thanks to Miguel for sending us our first image from Spain!&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miguel in Barcelona sent us this government-sponsored poster aimed at promoting egalitarian relationships. He translates the text as: The love has to be free Free of machismo Free of fights Free of jealousy This image, as a representation of idealized egalitarian love, is a nice contrast to the representations of love common in the U.S. [&hellip;]<\/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":[329,55,2096,2087,1802,280,23704,120],"class_list":["post-616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-emotion","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-nation-spain","tag-perfumecologne","tag-public-service-announcements","tag-sex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616","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=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16924,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/16924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}