{"id":8171,"date":"2016-11-14T11:51:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T16:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=8171"},"modified":"2016-11-14T11:51:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T16:51:29","slug":"digital-vacuity-and-other-promo-pet-peeves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2016\/11\/14\/digital-vacuity-and-other-promo-pet-peeves\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital vacuity and other promo pet peeves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>hameleon&#8217;s promo shots for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.renderosity.com\/mod\/bcs\/soft-expressions-for-g3-and-v7\/117559\/ad\">Soft Expressions for G3F<\/a> exemplify that fallacious belief that a limp face, half-lidded eyes, and jaw floating slightly southward denote allure. The ad claims that the expressions are <em>made from real women<\/em> [in the same way that Soylent Green is people, I assume =P ], but that&#8217;s clearly not the case, as every real person I&#8217;ve ever encountered, even those with limited control over their facial muscles, has much more expressive features. Hell, I&#8217;ve seen <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2012\/10\/02\/life-size-dolls-zomg-plus-the-tale-of-mick-the-mannequin\/\">mannequins <\/a>with more character. The aesthetic of vacuity deeply disturbs me, as it is predicated on the belief that a woman is attractive only as a dehumanized, objectified thing, evacuated of personhood and individuality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>hameleon&#8217;s promo shots for Soft Expressions for G3F exemplify that fallacious belief that a limp face, half-lidded eyes, and jaw floating slightly southward denote allure. The ad claims that the expressions are made from real women [in the same way that Soylent Green is people, I assume =P ], but that&#8217;s clearly not the case,&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2016\/11\/14\/digital-vacuity-and-other-promo-pet-peeves\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Digital vacuity and other promo pet peeves<\/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":[757],"class_list":["post-8171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-objectification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8171","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=8171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8172,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8171\/revisions\/8172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}