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Sexism in the media
By Sherry Bates
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Sexuality - Average American views 3000 advertisements
per day
- This amounts to 3 years of a persons life.
- They not only sell products, they sell :Sexuality
Love Romance Success And
Self Image
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Sexuality
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Boys & men rape women every 2 minutes in the U.S.
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Body Cropping
“Woman’s bodies continue to be dismembered in advertising. Over and over again just one part of the body is used to sell products, which is one of the most dehumanizing thing you can do to someone. Not only is she a thing, but just one part of that thing is focused on.”
Jean Kilbourne
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It turns woman’s bodies into objects
by focusing on one part of the body
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Turning women into objects is the first step towards justifying violence against women
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Sex as a tool to get what they want.
Hypersexual messages
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Self Esteem plummets.
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“Women are constantly turned into things, into objects. This has a very serious consequence.
It creates a climate in which there is wide spread violence against a women. Women are seen as things, objects, and turning a human being into a thing is first step toward justifying violence.”
Jean Kilbourne
Objectification
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Women are turned into things, objects
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Part of a cultural climate in which women are seen as things, object
Turning a women into an object is the 1st
step toward justifying violence
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Now normal to use makeup to resemble women who have
been bruised and battered
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Violence
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Thinness and Beauty
“ In the last two decades, we have developed a national cult of thinness. What is considered beautiful has become slimmer and slimmer. Dieting and dissatisfaction with bodies have become normal.”
Jean Kilbourne
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4 out of 5 women are dissatisfied with their
bodies.
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Almost ½ of American women are on a diet
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5% of women look like this!
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5-10 million struggling with serious eating
disorders.
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Happiness
is not
obtained
by having a
perfect
body
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Eating has become a moral issue
• Americans spend $36 billion dollars on diet supplies.
• Words such as “guilt” and “sin” are used to sell food.
• 95% of dieters will regain the weight they lost within 5 years.
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Magazines filled with articles on rich foods and recipes and how to lose weight
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Sexualization of Teenagers
Mainstream media have increasingly traded in the sexualization of young girls and teenagers.
This start at a young age, when parents give their daughters Barbie dolls.
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Barbie are sex symbols
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Promotes a Fantasy World
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Teens are Increasingly sexualized in
advertisements.
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SEXUALIZATION
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Ideal beauty is within the body,
Not on the outside.
Remember you are Beautiful.
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Credits for Photos• http://www.maomag.com/mm07.barbie.editorial.1.htm
• http://www.dietacalorie.com/dimagrire/P.....html#
• http://picasaweb.google.com/RevickyDietr....013490
• http://www.doubleviking.com/hotties/v/16....g.html
• http://www.dieta-calorie.com/dimagrire/P.....html# • http://picasaweb.google.com/RevickyDietr....021218
• : http://ffffound.com/?offset=25&
• http://behance.vo.llnwd.net/profiles/57559/projects/265351/575591247646292.jpg
• http://www.photographyserved.com/Gallery....168187
• http://makethelogobigger.blogspot.com/2007/04/blast-fro....t.html • http://www.flickr.com/photos/smiteme/366418444/
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Photo credits cont.• http://www.flickr.com/photos/smiteme/366418447/
• http://www.flickr.com/photos/robyn-gallagher/240452178/
• http://fashioncopious.typepad.com/fashioncopious/models/page/19/ • http://fashioncopious.typepad.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategoriz
ed/2008/05/16/d.jpg
• http://picasaweb.google.com/RevickyDietrich/TuEpy2008#5....013490 • http://lookbook.nu/look/186889-Those-Purple-Nights
• http://lookbook.nu/look/182968-Sunny-days • http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://shikinka.....01.jpg • http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view?back=http://....a3qdle
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Photo Credits cont.• http://images.search.yahoo.com/images/view?back=http://....4veosq • http://www.dieta-calorie.com/dimagrire/Per-dimagrire-ve.....html# • http://www.dieta-calorie.com/dimagrire/Per-dimagrire-ve.....html#
• http://www.etoday.ru/2008/09/charlize-theron-elle-vanity-fair.php • http://www.doubleviking.com/hotties/v/16603.jpg.html
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Race, Ethnicity, Gender Studies Class And Multimedia Applications
BySherry Bates