{"id":8042,"date":"2009-03-28T00:51:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-28T05:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=8042"},"modified":"2010-12-25T02:30:04","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T07:30:04","slug":"breaching-the-political-binary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2009\/03\/28\/breaching-the-political-binary\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaching the Political Binary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elisabeth R. sent us this one-minute commercial.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll let you experience it as designed (it has a surprise ending) and include my comments below:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/H4sZ2A04GrY&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/H4sZ2A04GrY&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>We might feel that feminism and gun ownership are incompatible.\u00a0 An argument could be made that (especially machine) gun ownership is anti-feminist, but it&#8217;s also true that we artificially cluster rather random, unconnected ideas into political ideologies that we then understand to be compatible by definition.\u00a0 For example, what does being anti-gay marriage and anti-taxes have to do with each other?\u00a0 Nothing.<\/p>\n<p>For more on pro-gun propaganda, see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/01\/06\/equal-opportunity-gun-ownership\/\" target=\"_self\">this extensive set of really fascinating posters<\/a> making feminist, anti-racist, and pro-gay arguments in favor of gun ownership.<\/p>\n<p>For another example of an effort to\u00a0bridge the political binary, see <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2008\/10\/27\/pro-environment-anti-immigration-activism\/\" target=\"_self\">this post<\/a> on pro-environment\/anti-immigrant activism<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elisabeth R. sent us this one-minute commercial.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll let you experience it as designed (it has a surprise ending) and include my comments below: We might feel that feminism and gun ownership are incompatible.\u00a0 An argument could be made that (especially machine) gun ownership is anti-feminist, but it&#8217;s also true that we artificially cluster rather [&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":[2095,23703,85,250],"class_list":["post-8042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender-feminismactivism","tag-marketing","tag-politics","tag-guns"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042","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=8042"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31447,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8042\/revisions\/31447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}