{"id":4,"date":"2017-09-21T23:28:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T23:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/?p=4"},"modified":"2017-09-21T23:28:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T23:28:25","slug":"blog-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/2017\/09\/21\/blog-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A reoccurring theme that I found inDouglas Holt and Craig J. Thompson\u2019s article \u201cMan-of-Action Heroes: The Pursuit of Heroic Masculinity in Everyday Consumption\u201d was that the ideology of heroic masculinity is being threatened in today\u2019s modern American society. The article talks about symbols like the cowboy, the adventurer, or the hunter who should be idolized by men for their “rugged individualism, an adventurous spirit, risk-taking, displays of physical prowess, and most of all, a high degree of personal autonomy.\u201d While having these qualities is not necessarily wrong, they can create an identity crisis inside of a man, stuck between a standard society has set for them or the image they have for themselves. This part of the article reminded me of another symbol which set dangerous standards for American men: The Marlboro Man.\"\"<\/p>\n

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The Marlboro Man was a figure used in Marlboro\u2019s advertising campaigns for their cigarettes from 1954 to 1999. Like the previously mentioned figures, The Marlboro Man was meant to symbolize the \u201crough-n-tough\u201d look and encouraged men to be adventurous like him. Unfortunately for millions of Americans, this advertisement was wildly successful and cigarette smoking started to become the new norm across the country. The hazardous standard for men to live up to set by the Marlboro Man led to thousands of deaths in America from lung cancer (including The Marlboro Man pictured). In conclusion, there has been and still are many false gods that American men are supposed to worship in our society and although not all are entirely bad to follow, American men are better off making their own image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Week 1 Response A reoccurring theme that I found inDouglas Holt and Craig J. Thompson\u2019s article \u201cMan-of-Action Heroes: The Pursuit of Heroic Masculinity in Everyday Consumption\u201d was that the ideology of heroic masculinity is being threatened in today\u2019s modern American society. The article talks about symbols like the cowboy, the adventurer, or the hunter who … Continue reading Blog 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":1,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"mrwahl","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/author\/mrwahl\/"},"qubely_comment":1,"qubely_category":"Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"Week 1 Response A reoccurring theme that I found inDouglas Holt and Craig J. Thompson\u2019s article \u201cMan-of-Action Heroes: The Pursuit of Heroic Masculinity in Everyday Consumption\u201d was that the ideology of heroic masculinity is being threatened in today\u2019s modern American society. The article talks about symbols like the cowboy, the adventurer, or the hunter who…","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4\/revisions\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/mrwahl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}