{"id":6296,"date":"2009-02-09T02:00:48","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T07:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=6296"},"modified":"2010-12-23T03:15:51","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T08:15:51","slug":"a-perhaps-perfect-illustration-of-the-stereotype-of-gendered-love-sexuality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/02\/09\/a-perhaps-perfect-illustration-of-the-stereotype-of-gendered-love-sexuality\/","title":{"rendered":"A, Perhaps, Perfect Illustration of the Stereotype of Gendered Love &amp; Sexuality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Behold, &#8220;The Ugly Truth&#8221; about women and men:<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6295\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/uglytruthposter_011.jpg\" alt=\"uglytruthposter_011\" width=\"325\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/uglytruthposter_011.jpg 325w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2009\/02\/uglytruthposter_011-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/>Amanda at Pandagon offers <a href=\"http:\/\/pandagon.net\/index.php\/site\/comments\/romantic_comedies_slipping_into_caveman_territory\/\" target=\"_blank\">a nice analysis<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s the classic modern attempt to mollify women about vicious gender stereotyping by phony flattery through insulting men&#8212;men are such dogs, amiriteladeez?!\u00a0 But the \u201cmen are dogs\u201d stereotype is ultimately about putting women in their place, because it packages these assumptions:<\/p>\n<p>* Women are naive, emotional, and kind of stupid, which is why men can exploit these \u201cfeelings\u201d women have to steal sex from us.<\/p>\n<p>* Women are obsessed with irrational things like weddings and getting flowers, and they lose their minds over this.\u00a0 (Men are compelled by their supposed out of this world horniness, but rarely are they depicted as losing control of themselves to the point where they lose their dignity.) This is why men have the upper hand, because women are too crazy to hang onto it.\u00a0 It\u2019s certainly not that this is a male-dominated society, no siree, and to make that abundantly clear, female rom com characters now usually have a lot of professional power.<\/p>\n<p>* Women don\u2019t really like sex that much; they just tolerate it to lure unwilling men into pretending to care about us.<\/p>\n<p>* Men are cold, unfeeling creatures that just want sex and nothing more.\u00a0 Women cannot change this, so we have to accept it.\u00a0 For some reason, just abandoning men altogether if they suck this much doesn\u2019t occur to anyone.<\/p>\n<p>* But for some reason, if you buy into this bleak worldview where men and women are completely different, and at war with each other, you\u2019ll be rewarded with True Love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/5144006\/is-there-any-way-to-save-the-romantic-comedyhttp:\/\/jezebel.com\/5144006\/is-there-any-way-to-save-the-romantic-comedy\" target=\"_blank\">Jezebel<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Behold, &#8220;The Ugly Truth&#8221; about women and men:Amanda at Pandagon offers a nice analysis: It\u2019s the classic modern attempt to mollify women about vicious gender stereotyping by phony flattery through insulting men&#8212;men are such dogs, amiriteladeez?!\u00a0 But the \u201cmen are dogs\u201d stereotype is ultimately about putting women in their place, because it packages these assumptions: [&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":[329,55,2096,2087,120,293],"class_list":["post-6296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-emotion","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-sex","tag-social-construction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296","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=6296"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31287,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6296\/revisions\/31287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}