Objectification Of Women In Advertising Essay
Advertising and Sexual Objectification
Close your eyes and imagine you are an object in front of your couch at home, that you always put your feet on when your mom's not home? You are a coffee table and people keep putting their dirty, smelly feet on you and spill sticky food and drinks on you. You are the center of the living room and you have pretty decorations on you to make the room look better but over time you stop looking nice and the years of abuse have taken their toll, you are now useless and in turn thrown out. But wait! you are not a coffee table! You are a person with thoughts and feelings! Your first thought would probably be: I'm glad I'm not treated like that, but if you are a female you can relate to this. This is a very …show more content…
We are exposed to about 2000 ads a day, turning ads into a kind of “national peer pressure” (Kilbourne 5). Kilbourne also says that youth are very impressionable and they look to advertising and media to learn ("Beauty...and the Beast of Advertising." 5). Their was a study of both genders and the effects of hyper sexualized ads featuring women, both men and women had lower body satisfaction after seeing these ads (Townsend). (. This tells us that sexualizing women also does harm to men. Another study showed participants pictures of sexualized body parts of both men and women, the participants only recognised women's sexualized body parts but not men's, this proves that ads can only sexualize women ("Study: Proof That We Sexually Objectify Women."1). Adults and teens aren't the only ones who suffer from sexualized ads, children may suffer the most. Pornographic ads are everywhere, they are seen on the streets, on tv, and even next to the can't at the store. Children suffer from depression, anxiety, eating disorders and they perform poorly in school because of this early adultification ("Sex sells, but we're selling out our children" 7). This is now seen as a public health
Close your eyes and imagine you are an object in front of your couch at home, that you always put your feet on when your mom's not home? You are a coffee table and people keep putting their dirty, smelly feet on you and spill sticky food and drinks on you. You are the center of the living room and you have pretty decorations on you to make the room look better but over time you stop looking nice and the years of abuse have taken their toll, you are now useless and in turn thrown out. But wait! you are not a coffee table! You are a person with thoughts and feelings! Your first thought would probably be: I'm glad I'm not treated like that, but if you are a female you can relate to this. This is a very …show more content…
We are exposed to about 2000 ads a day, turning ads into a kind of “national peer pressure” (Kilbourne 5). Kilbourne also says that youth are very impressionable and they look to advertising and media to learn ("Beauty...and the Beast of Advertising." 5). Their was a study of both genders and the effects of hyper sexualized ads featuring women, both men and women had lower body satisfaction after seeing these ads (Townsend). (. This tells us that sexualizing women also does harm to men. Another study showed participants pictures of sexualized body parts of both men and women, the participants only recognised women's sexualized body parts but not men's, this proves that ads can only sexualize women ("Study: Proof That We Sexually Objectify Women."1). Adults and teens aren't the only ones who suffer from sexualized ads, children may suffer the most. Pornographic ads are everywhere, they are seen on the streets, on tv, and even next to the can't at the store. Children suffer from depression, anxiety, eating disorders and they perform poorly in school because of this early adultification ("Sex sells, but we're selling out our children" 7). This is now seen as a public health