Thursday, February 12, 2009

Two Movies

In these two movies I learned about how the media uses women as objects instead of people. The media also shows advertisements that give off the vibe that abusing women is ok. For example they show a naked women's body as an alcoholic beverage. In another ad they show is with a woman up against the wall with a man pulling her hair, this symbolizes that the man is in control and it gives off the impression that women like to be controlled and not handled with care. Because of the appealing nature of women’s body's the media feels the need to use our bodies as objects to sell their products. In the end the only thing that is going to matter is that sex sells. The media will stop at nothing if it involves their company and or the product they are trying to sell. The first movie was about how the media will use women’s bodies as objects. In the second movie it tells you how the advertisements are very sexual and can sometimes promote sexual and physical abuse toward women. In the second movie it shows you an ad with a man smoking a cigar and a women in the background, next to the man is writing that states something like "it has no opinion and no say in anything that’s why it makes the perfect companion". That’s the kind of advertisements that little boys can see and read and start to think that this is how women should be treaded. It shows that men should not give women the respect they want and should get. The first movie shows you how sex sells and how women are used as objects instead of people. When you watch a chimerical on TV say it’s with bud light and you’re at a NASCAR race. It shows a woman with the beer walking in between the rows of cars. What you tend to not notice is the camera always focuses on one part of her body and it’s never the face. When I finished watching the movies I realized that women should be seen as people not as a toy or an object.

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