{"id":955,"date":"2018-04-01T21:11:03","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T01:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/?p=955"},"modified":"2018-04-02T11:49:27","modified_gmt":"2018-04-02T15:49:27","slug":"response-to-phillips-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/2018\/04\/01\/response-to-phillips-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to Phillips Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 800px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-955-1\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/urctlt.com\/productionracestyle\/04\/Masculinity.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/urctlt.com\/productionracestyle\/04\/Masculinity.mp4\">http:\/\/urctlt.com\/productionracestyle\/04\/Masculinity.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>One of the major themes in the Phillips reading was toxic masculinity in society. The quote that stood out to me the most was, &#8220;<span class=\"s1\">The fixation on hardness restricts masculine individuals to a limited range of emotional and physical responses. Anger and violence, with their obvious shows of strength and rejection of weakness, predominate.&#8221; This quote reminded me of politicians and political commentators angrily calling people &#8220;snowflakes&#8221; and &#8220;wimps&#8221; that don&#8217;t approve of their rhetoric. In this clip, commentator Ben Shapiro lashes out at students who feel threatened by the his messages. I repeated the clip where Shapiro says, &#8220;You selfish children,&#8221; multiple times because I wanted his words to have an impact. I kept the last word, &#8220;<em>predominate,&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>by itself on the last shot because I wanted to tie its significance (prevalence of these sorts of attitudes in society) in with his name-calling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the major themes in the Phillips reading was toxic masculinity in society. The quote that stood out to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[72731],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-racialized-disgust"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/productionracestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}