{"id":63083,"date":"2014-12-28T11:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-28T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=63083"},"modified":"2014-12-26T12:56:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T17:56:25","slug":"a-reluctant-defense-of-sunscreen-for-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2014\/12\/28\/a-reluctant-defense-of-sunscreen-for-men\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reluctant Defense of Sunscreen for Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lotion\u00a0is\u00a0socially constructed as feminine in the U.S. and so some men, attempting to avoid the\u00a0prevailing insults of our time —\u00a0gay, fag, bitch, pussy, douche,<\/em> girl,<\/em>\u00a0and woman —<\/em>\u00a0are disinclined to use it.<\/p>\n

Eeeew, lotion!<\/p>\n

You know who you are, guys.<\/p>\n

Sunscreen is a category of lotion and\u00a0so putting on sunscreen is equivalent to admitting you’re the sun’s bitch. \u00a0Men are supposed to let the sun bake their face into a tough, craggy masculinity<\/a>\u00a0that says “yeah, I go outdoors and, when I do, I don’t give a shit.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Because caring about one’s health is for pussies, some scholars argue<\/a> that being male is the single strongest predictor of whether a person will take health risks. \u00a0In fact, thanks in part to the stupid idea that lotion\u00a0carries girl cooties,\u00a0men are two to three times more likely to be diagnosed with skin cancer<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So, fine<\/em> dudes, here’s some sunscreen for men. \u00a0For christ’s sake.<\/p>\n

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Thanks to\u00a0@r0setayl0r<\/a> and @ryesilverman<\/a>\u00a0for sending along the product! \u00a0Check it out on our truly humorous\u00a0pointlessly gendered products\u00a0Pinterest board.<\/a><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lotion\u00a0is\u00a0socially constructed as feminine in the U.S. and so some men, attempting to avoid the\u00a0prevailing insults of our time —\u00a0gay, fag, bitch, pussy, douche, girl,\u00a0and woman —\u00a0are disinclined to use it. Eeeew, lotion! You know who you are, guys. Sunscreen is a category of lotion and\u00a0so putting on sunscreen is equivalent to admitting you’re the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":63085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2096,2091,2087,252,23703,293],"class_list":["post-63083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-femininity","tag-gender-healthmedicine","tag-gender-masculinity","tag-healthmedicine","tag-marketing","tag-social-construction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2014\/06\/1a8.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63083","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=63083"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65551,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63083\/revisions\/65551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}