{"id":793,"date":"2007-12-21T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=793"},"modified":"2015-07-22T14:17:15","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T18:17:15","slug":"hello-im-a-wii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2007\/12\/21\/hello-im-a-wii\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Hello, I&#8217;m a Wii.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This parody <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=x7PhJp3ciRQ\">commercial,<\/a> in which the PS2 is personified as a Rubenesque girl with glasses and short brown hair and the Wii is a tall, scrawny girl with no glasses and blond curly hair, is annoying. First, it sets up a false dichotomy between intelligent, down-to-earth, regular-looking traits and gregarious, impulsive, stereotypically attractive traits. It suggests that the first are undesirable and the latter are desirable, but whether a certain mix of traits is desirable depends on one&#8217;s tastes. I personally have the hots for the Rubenesque girl in terms of character and physical appearance, but I really like the scrawny girl&#8217;s flirtiness. However, in the framework of the commercial, the Rubenesque girl is ultimately an arrogant, castrating, mannish lesbian and fat slob, and the scrawny girl is a stupid, push-over, super-femmy, breakable slut, and neither one of them is ultimately desirable, so I think the parody just shot itself in the foot. The only way I&#8217;d like them both was if they were in 1:6 or 1:3.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This parody commercial, in which the PS2 is personified as a Rubenesque girl with glasses and short brown hair and the Wii is a tall, scrawny girl with no glasses and blond curly hair, is annoying. First, it sets up a false dichotomy between intelligent, down-to-earth, regular-looking traits and gregarious, impulsive, stereotypically attractive traits. It&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2007\/12\/21\/hello-im-a-wii\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Hello, I&#8217;m a Wii.&#8221;<\/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":[1],"tags":[662],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sexist-stereotypes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5834,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/5834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}