{"id":6263,"date":"2009-03-01T11:39:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-01T16:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=6263"},"modified":"2010-12-23T03:37:25","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T08:37:25","slug":"what-weve-been-up-to-behind-your-back-february-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/03\/01\/what-weve-been-up-to-behind-your-back-february-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Sociological Images Update (February 2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Please welcome Julianne Monday<\/a>, our first Sociological Images intern!\u00a0<\/p>\n

Be our friend!\u00a0 We have a facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gwen was quoted in a San Francisco Chronicle<\/em> article about the New York Post editorial cartoon<\/a> scandal.\u00a0 Check it out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gwen would also like to say that she\u00a0missed the chance to be interviewed by a reporter at the New York Times<\/em> because she was at lunch when they emailed her and by the time she got back to her office they’d found someone else to be their expert commenter.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0She missed a chance to be quoted in the NYT<\/em> for a stupid portabello mushroom-and-poblano pepper taco plate.\u00a0 She wasn’t even all that hungry.\u00a0<\/p>\n

That said, no one called Lisa this month at all.\u00a0 I’m just saying.<\/p>\n

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NEWLY ENRICHED POSTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our post about racist Disney characters<\/a> was updated with a comparison of an image of Goofy to a traditional “Sambo” caricature and a discussion of whether Goofy is necessarily meant to be a racial archetype.<\/p>\n

We added some of the coverage of the policing of Jessica Simpson’s weight to our post chronicling fat scandals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We found another example of “chaperoning,” or never letting non-white people outnumber white people in ads, and added it to this post<\/a> (scroll down).<\/p>\n

To our post on “subliminal” sex in advertising<\/a>, we added a vintage lipstick ad suggestive of oral sex (scroll down).<\/p>\n

We found another ad suggesting that men use alcohol to get sex and added it to our post on the theme here<\/a> (scroll down).<\/p>\n

We added a video by Jay Smooth from Ill Doctrine [who we are totally crushing on] to this post<\/a> about the use of the phrase “no homo.”<\/p>\n

We added the hoax site Porn for Women by Women to this post<\/a> about how images of men doing housework or being thoughtful is often jokingly portrayed as women’s equivalent of porn.<\/p>\n

In the video game My World, My Way, players take on the role of a spoiled female character who uses pout points and selfishness to win.\u00a0 We added a video about it to this post<\/a> about several other video games (note: the post isn’t safe for work).<\/p>\n

We added more t-shirts to this post<\/a> about portrayals of American Indians.<\/p>\n

We added another image to our extremely popular post on the objectification of men<\/a> (scroll to the “bottom”).\u00a0 We just can’t figure out why it attracts so much traffic.\u00a0 Hmmmm.<\/p>\n

We have an extensive post<\/a> demonstrating the sexualization of food, but they keep on comin’.\u00a0 Scroll all the way down for our burger boobs and Doritos undies.<\/p>\n

Someone thought it’d be neat to fashion a female mannequin torso into an ipod stereo.\u00a0 We added a picture\u00a0of the product to our post featuring furniture in the shape of female bodies<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finally,\u00a0we updated a post about “ethnic” fashion<\/a> with an image of “tribal” sandals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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