{"id":4210,"date":"2013-11-21T01:19:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T06:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=4210"},"modified":"2013-12-13T08:10:09","modified_gmt":"2013-12-13T13:10:09","slug":"kmarts-joe-boxer-ad-may-be-in-poor-taste-is-it-also-racist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/kmarts-joe-boxer-ad-may-be-in-poor-taste-is-it-also-racist\/","title":{"rendered":"Kmart&#8217;s Joe Boxer ad may be in poor taste. Is it also racist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/kmarts-joe-boxer-ad-may-be-in-poor-taste-is-it-also-racist\/screen-shot-2013-11-21-at-1-21-19-am\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4215\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2013-11-21-at-1.21.19-AM.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Boxer xmas commercial\" width=\"352\" height=\"221\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4215\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2013-11-21-at-1.21.19-AM.jpg 352w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2013-11-21-at-1.21.19-AM-225x141.jpg 225w, http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-shot-2013-11-21-at-1.21.19-AM-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nKatie McDonough of Salon <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2013\/11\/19\/kmart_holiday_commercial_features_thrusting_dudes_musical_testicles\/\">dislikes Kmart&#8217;s Joe Boxer male underwear ad<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23showyourjoe\">#showyourjoe<\/a> because it&#8217;s too overtly sexual for her taste, and she wonders about metal testicles. The booty shaking didn&#8217;t bother me &#8211; most popular musicals have way more spice in their dance routines.<\/p>\n<p>When I watched the 1 minute commercial, what I noticed was that the only dude with speaking lines and the guy with the most shakes, was the single Black man out of a field of 6. Naturally, I asked myself &#8211; is this commercial racist? I&#8217;d love to know what you think.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9PVhIMr4ScI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katie McDonough of Salon dislikes Kmart&#8217;s Joe Boxer male underwear ad #showyourjoe because it&#8217;s too overtly sexual for her taste, and she wonders about metal testicles. The booty shaking didn&#8217;t bother me &#8211; most popular musicals have way more spice in their dance routines. When I watched the 1 minute commercial, what I noticed was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/kmarts-joe-boxer-ad-may-be-in-poor-taste-is-it-also-racist\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Kmart&#8217;s Joe Boxer ad may be in poor taste. Is it also racist?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,1082,4],"tags":[1326,1098,1328,1042,1327,1040,1325],"class_list":["post-4210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all","category-dei","category-digital-life","tag-ad","tag-booty","tag-boxer","tag-commercial","tag-joe","tag-racist","tag-sexual"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4210"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4216,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4210\/revisions\/4216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}