Kilbourne says that it is dangerous to depict men and women as sex objects because it is degrading to everyone and makes the outcome of the products unrealistic. Depicting women as sex objects is more degrading because the society displays women as property of men, therefore pushing that man should continue to rape and beat women. I do agree with Kilbourne that the advertisements promote harassment of women more than men. Beer commercials are especially big on promoting that idea. It seems ridiculous in my mind that people would create images that completely lower the confidence of women and promote hatred mentally or physically towards them. In my opinion, this encouragement of ideas is not worth putting people in danger for in order to sell products. Although most commercials put forward the idea of sex and women being property, the country should not be supportive of these products because it would force the companies to change their way of advertising.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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I agree with you, and how it isn't worth it to show these potentially hurtful commercials in order to sell a product. Degrading women to be on a level below men and show them as sex objects can't outweigh the benefits of selling items, and so we should not support companies that advertise that in order to say something to them and hopefully stop them from showing that type of material.
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