{"id":53094,"date":"2015-04-30T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T17:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53094"},"modified":"2015-04-30T08:07:38","modified_gmt":"2015-04-30T13:07:38","slug":"our-silly-cultural-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=53094","title":{"rendered":"Our Silly Cultural Conscience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Rape culture&#8221; warriors have been reading the labels on our beer bottles.   And by &#8220;our beer bottles&#8221;, I actually mean &#8220;beer I would never drink in a million years&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But I digress.<\/p>\n<p>Bud Light &#8216;s new marketing slogan, anyway, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2015\/04\/28\/no-means-up-for-whatever-according-to-the-latest-bud-light-slogan\/?tid=sm_fb\">raising eyebrows <\/a>on the  brows of the easily brow-raisable::<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The perfect beer for removing &#8216;no&#8217; from your vocabulary for the night #UpForWhatever&#8221; That&#8217;s the tagline printed on a Bud Light bottle and photographed by a sharp-eyed Reddit user late last night. Since then it&#8217;s ignited a flurry of criticism on social media, where people are saying that a slogan like that promotes rape culture<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> &#8220;Rape culture &#8221; may or may not be a problem. But &#8221; &#8216;rape culture&#8217; culture&#8221; certainly is.<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Rape culture&#8221; warriors have been reading the labels on our beer bottles. And by &#8220;our beer bottles&#8221;, I actually mean &#8220;beer I would never drink in a million years&#8221;. But I digress. Bud Light &#8216;s new marketing slogan, anyway, is raising eyebrows on the brows of the easily brow-raisable:: &#8220;The perfect beer for removing &#8216;no&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53095,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53094\/revisions\/53095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}