{"id":84,"date":"2008-12-29T18:37:57","date_gmt":"2008-12-29T22:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/?p=84"},"modified":"2017-10-31T20:06:18","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T00:06:18","slug":"how-not-to-properly-satirize-wife-beating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2008\/12\/29\/how-not-to-properly-satirize-wife-beating\/","title":{"rendered":"How not to properly satirize wife-beating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would be grateful if someone could explain to me the redeeming satirical message underlying Robert Fiorentino\u2019s instructional video, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.collegehumor.com\/video:1895146\" target=\"_blank\">How to Properly Slap a Woman<\/a>.\u201d I have three theories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the makers of this video misunderstand the nature of satire, i.e. that it should embarass those who espouse the beliefs being lampooned<\/li>\n<li>the makers of this video think misogynistic partner abuse is worth the chuckles<\/li>\n<li>the makers of this video are so subtly criticizing a culture which views wife-beating as quaint, that their critique is escaping me completely.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would be grateful if someone could explain to me the redeeming satirical message underlying Robert Fiorentino\u2019s instructional video, \u201cHow to Properly Slap a Woman.\u201d I have three theories: the makers of this video misunderstand the nature of satire, i.e. that it should embarass those who espouse the beliefs being lampooned the makers of this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/2008\/12\/29\/how-not-to-properly-satirize-wife-beating\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How not to properly satirize wife-beating<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7073,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,121],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7073"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/hoochie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}