{"id":3925,"date":"2012-01-06T15:08:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T20:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2012-01-06T15:12:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T20:12:06","slug":"let-them-eat-veggies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2012\/01\/06\/let-them-eat-veggies\/","title":{"rendered":"Let Them Eat Veggies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vrpyIq3Brbc\/TwdLbdr8B2I\/AAAAAAAACeM\/M-LDSf2kNOo\/s1600\/MichelleAntoinette.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-vrpyIq3Brbc\/TwdLbdr8B2I\/AAAAAAAACeM\/M-LDSf2kNOo\/s400\/MichelleAntoinette.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"400\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: left\"><em>Originally posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/vox.rhizomicon.com\/2012\/01\/let-them-eat-veggies.html\" target=\"_blank\">vox.rhizomicon<\/a><\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: left\">A photo of a &#8220;buff&#8221; Michelle Obama as Marie Antoinette is <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamatters.org\/blog\/201201040001\">making the rounds<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>again, due to an upcoming iCarly appearance. On the Nickelodeon sitcom, Michelle is referred to as &#8220;your excellency&#8221; and &#8220;sort of likes it&#8221;. The right wing is having a field day and the left wing is calling foul, saying it&#8217;s racist and evokes the <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2012\/01\/racist-image-of-michelle-obama-based-on-versailles-painting.html\"><strong>&#8220;uppity negro&#8221; stereotype<\/strong><\/a>. The &#8216;Shopped version of\u00a0Gautier-Dagoty&#8217;s iconic painting {below right} dates back to the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pjmedia.com\/instapundit\/104186\/\">summer of 2010<\/a><\/strong>.<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-gXiVIXDJ9K8\/TwdM_kVCS7I\/AAAAAAAACeU\/VrFf8KGFtk4\/s1600\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0168e4fe39b3970c-600wi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-gXiVIXDJ9K8\/TwdM_kVCS7I\/AAAAAAAACeU\/VrFf8KGFtk4\/s400\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0168e4fe39b3970c-600wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"232\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: left\">The deconstruction of the tropes of leveling Michelle Obama seems to be a part of a theme in the way\u00a0she&#8217;s serving as a lightning rod for pundits and journos. Hillary Clinton faces the same battles and Condi Rice was targeted with a mid-2000s spoof site that was something like CondiRiceIsAngry.com, so this isn&#8217;t a clear cut left\/right issue. In all instances, there seems to be a theme of defeminizing them by making them mannish, angry, or otherwise unattractive. It&#8217;s not enough to have the Marie Antoinette Michelle be a symbol of being out of touch, but the burly arm reinforces the point that she&#8217;s threatening to a set of ideals.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted on vox.rhizomicon A photo of a &#8220;buff&#8221; Michelle Obama as Marie Antoinette is making the rounds\u00a0again, due to an upcoming iCarly appearance. On the Nickelodeon sitcom, Michelle is referred to as &#8220;your excellency&#8221; and &#8220;sort of likes it&#8221;. The right wing is having a field day and the left wing is calling foul, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12355,12357,4073,4436],"class_list":["post-3925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-deconstructing-images","tag-gautier-dagoty","tag-michelle-obama","tag-rhizomicon"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3925"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3931,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3925\/revisions\/3931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}