Morgan
Bilodeau
January
30, 2015
Entry
1
Media portrays women in different
ways. Media usually portrays women in a sexual way. It portrays that a perfect
body and a perfect face is all you need to have to feel beautiful and to get a
man to like you. The writing piece I am
going to talk about is “The evolution of
Cultural Studies”. In the piece it says “For it is women who are more often
than not are the “imaged” in our culture”. Women everyday are looked at and
picked apart. They are held to extremely high standards. You need to be a size
zero, big boobs, big butt, and have a flat stomach. The media makes women try
to reach unobtainable goals because women look up to the celebrities and the
models in magazines. “So that more often than not those images of ourselves
that stare at us from the glossy pages of the women’s magazines or from the
glowing eye of the television screen are not of our own creation”. For my whole
life I have felt that I have been held to the standard to look like a super
model posing on the cover of a magazine. Now a day I know that the images are
not real. No one can actually look like them.
“Women’s bodies sell cars, beer, and
laundry detergent”. Every commercial you
see now a day has a pretty girl in it trying to sell that product or advertise
for a company. They use women to sell these products to gain the attention of
men. But I also think that men are advertised in the media the same way. Men
are topless in underwear commercials. Men feel like they have to live to the
standard of perfectly photo-shopped men. So why do people say only women are
held to a high standard and are the “imaged” in our society?
I agree with you, I think men are also being portrayed like women are in advertisements. They both are seen in a sexual way to sell products in commercials or magazines.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you when you state that women's bodies sell cars, beer and laundry detergent. Women are the ones helping companies get money. Also i agree when you say that women are not the only people who are being portrayed men also are too.
ReplyDeletei agree with you when you say that women are held to high standards. Us women want to look like the stereotypical women in the media, we pick ourselves apart when comparing ourselves apart to them.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you, advertisement companies use women's bodies to gain money, they don't care about how much they are degraded people they just look for the money.
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