
The Re up new edit on an old post
March 13, 2007The article entitled Sexism and sexuality in Advertising discusses how women and men are sheep in the eyes of the media, with the media’s definition of beauty. For women the advertisements share a common theme you have to be beautiful. Naomi wolf author of the beauty myth compares the ideal beauty to the Iron Maiden. Which was a medieval torture device that was a spiked box. According to Wolf “ like the iron maiden, the beauty ideal enforces conformity to a single rigid shape.”
To quote the article “for a man, the message is manifold, he must be powerful rich confident, and athletic. Guys have an image they have to capitalize on. I see advertisements all over having men and women with physiques that look to good “body parts of several different models-a mouth from this one, arms from that one, and legs from a third.” this a Frankenstein in my eyes that’s not a women it’s a creation to sell a product and it works. “ The flawlessness of the iron maiden is, in fact an illusion created by makeup artists, photographers, and photo retouches.” According to the article “ads instruct us to assume a self- conscious perspective, to view our physical selves through the censorious eyes of others.”
The article says that teenage girls are the most vulnerable to “beauty-industry propaganda.” advertising targets these girls who want to bring out the inner adult. “the image of the iron maiden are everywhere but women’s magazines are the big target know as “cash cow’s” in the advertisement world. The self image of women has been jaded with advertisement. Ad’s turn who were are into who we want to be. Ad’s provide a statement of what is normal but the ads show people who aren’t real everyone has flaws but in the ad world there are none.
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Before edit 551 word after edit 306. I write like Ernest Hemingway (pure sarcasm never read Hemingway got the reference from family guy)