{"id":1111,"date":"2012-05-15T19:36:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T19:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/duenos.net\/?p=1111"},"modified":"2012-05-15T19:36:31","modified_gmt":"2012-05-15T19:36:31","slug":"gendered-poses-in-visual-mediums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/gendered-poses-in-visual-mediums\/","title":{"rendered":"Gendered poses in visual mediums"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite sociologists-in-disguise is MovieBob<\/a>. A while back he released a video that I’ve been using in my classes to point out sexism in videogames as it occurs in the way that female characters are physically posed (a notably different critique than the usual “they all have giant boobs and skinny abs routine” that makes the bros think again):<\/p>\n

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The Escapist<\/a> : The Big Picture<\/a> : Gender Games<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I absolutely love this kind of intelligent and insightful commentary, though I also appreciate his willingness to reach out to the more thick-skulled males out there<\/a>.
\nThe other day my dear Dellington<\/a> found a perfect example of what he’s talking about here. Observe, the sexualized mostly-male Avengers:
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\nPicture borrowed from elephantjournal.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my favorite sociologists-in-disguise is MovieBob. A while back he released a video that I’ve been using in my classes to point out sexism in videogames as it occurs in the way that female characters are physically posed (a notably different critique than the usual “they all have giant boobs and skinny abs routine” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[143,383,390],"class_list":["post-1111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reflection","tag-feminism","tag-us-culture","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffginger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}