{"id":6388,"date":"2009-01-21T18:45:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T02:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/21\/dodge-rams-are-for-girly-men\/"},"modified":"2009-01-21T18:45:49","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T02:05:37","slug":"dodge-rams-are-for-girly-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6388","title":{"rendered":"Dodge Rams Are For Girly Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real men, it appears, drive Chevys:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cagPZOAtZp4&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/cagPZOAtZp4&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>A lot of commercials make sexist appeals to insecurity about masculinity, but this one is impressive because it&#8217;s just so <em>pure.<\/em> The Dodge Ram has a heated steering wheel! Manicures! Pro football players! Unstated but heavily implied: <em>Drive Chevy or die a wimp, wimp!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I like to imagine the ad agency people sitting around, spitballing. &#8220;You know the problem? Men think they can be real men just by driving <em>any <\/em>old ludicrously oversized truck. We want to make them know that if you&#8217;re in the <em>wrong <\/em>ludicrously oversized truck, then you&#8217;re a girl.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Curtsy: <a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/socimages\/2009\/01\/20\/if-you-do-not-drive-a-chevy-truck-you-are-feminine\/\">Sociological Images<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministe.us\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/21\/gendering-comfort\/\">Feministe.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real men, it appears, drive Chevys: A lot of commercials make sexist appeals to insecurity about masculinity, but this one is impressive because it&#8217;s just so pure. The Dodge Ram has a heated steering wheel! Manicures! Pro football players! Unstated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=6388\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-criticism","category-sexism-hurts-men"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}