So, this weks topic is dvertising. I read the articles last night and I must say that while I agree with some points of the articles, especially where they talk about how they hugely stereotype the roles of a female and a male, and how advertisment companies try to highly sexualize women. I agree with all of this, but one thing I don’t agree with is the amount of influence they say the media has on young females. While yes it is a factor I find it doesn’t have quite as huge of an effect as they claim it does. I mean there are a lot of different factors other than just the media that lead a female to be depressed about their bodies like their friends being skinnier then them, parents telling the children they are fat, getting bullied in school! Therefore, it is not just all media. However, I have found lately with rap being a huge musical industry that we as a society have placed an even greater pressure on females to look good. The rap music videos highly sexsualize females, and often have them sprawled on top of something like a nice car, or riding shot gun in a car. These kind of images show that women appear to be just another object, and are like tokens. They are not people they are just another way for men to measure their worth. To me, this is what many rap videos portray. I find it quite sad to see just how complete strangers effect our every day lives. They influence especailly females so much that females are constantly unsatisfied with their perfectly beautiful bodies. However, we have to give credit to advertisements like the dove campaign which promoted a wide array of womens bodies, and showed them off in a bra and panties, proving their is nothing wrong with these bodies either. While a big step it is not enough to sway the whole population, and therefore hopefully other media’s will job on this wagon.
