{"id":136100,"date":"2020-03-15T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-15T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=136100"},"modified":"2020-03-15T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-15T06:00:00","slug":"sex-rebranded-how-underwear-jumped-on-the-metoo-bandwagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=136100","title":{"rendered":"Sex rebranded: how underwear jumped on the #MeToo bandwagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A titillating new ad campaign proves that there is no movement \u2013 in this case female empowerment \u2013 that can\u2019t be commodifiedWhat a time for female empowerment. The day after International Women\u2019s Day, shortly before Harvey Weinstein was handed his 23-year jail sentence, and days before Kate Beckinsale outlined a run-in with the rapist movie mogul in which he called her a \u201ccunt\u201d for wearing a suit to a premiere, the British lingerie company Agent Provocateur released an underwear campaign celebrating \u201cthe unparalleled potential of the female physique\u201d.It opens with a woman\u2019s bottom and closes with another\u2019s cleavage. But here\u2019s the twist. The bottom and breasts belong to four high-profile athletes \u2013 British gymnast Georgia-Mae Fenton, Canadian pole vaulter Alysha Newman, American climber Sasha DiGiulian and American hurdler Queen Harrison Claye. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/fashion\/2020\/mar\/14\/the-rebranding-of-sex-underwear-hitches-ride-on-metoo-bandwagon\" target=\"_blank\">Sex rebranded: how underwear jumped on the #MeToo bandwagon<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A titillating new ad campaign proves that there is no movement \u2013 in this case female empowerment \u2013 that can\u2019t be commodifiedWhat a time for female empowerment. The day after International Women\u2019s Day, shortly before Harvey Weinstein was handed his 23-year jail sentence, and days before Kate Beckinsale outlined a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}