This week we had a guest speaker talk to us about media and the influences the media has on body image. I really enjoyed the assignment that we had this week. Looking at certain advertisements with a critical eye really made me reconsider what I am buying. I believe that women are totally and completely subjugated in a lot of advertisements. Women are totally demeaned and basically shown like a piece of meat. Not only are women portrayed like this, but also men in certain advertisements. I noticed that in many products that men usually buy women were portrayed very badly. This was mostly in cigarette and alcohol advertisements.
These women also are extremely skinny and look very unhealthy. This is also one of the main reasons why little girls that are in middle school have eating disorders. They are looking at these “glamorous” models and they think they should look like them. Celebrities are also giving little girls a false reality. Little girls want to look like Lindsay Lohan and Mary-Kate Olsen, and these celebrities are not healthy.
We also watched “The Merchants of Cool” and it showed us something that I had never heard of before, but I have noticed. It was called the “mid grif.” This is when a girl is a pre mature adult and she cares a lot about what she looks like. She thinks that she has to be sexy in order for boys to like her, and that is not true. This is also making little girls want to be sexy when they are barely in their teens.
I made this video for my Race, Gender, and the Media class!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AKyKd0CupU
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