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Advertising: Damaging Stereotypes of Women Many women in today's society are plagued by the stereotypes portrayed in advertisements. Everyday women are striving to become thin, model-type women. Someone women's actions are affected heavily by what they see in the advertisements. These damaging advertisements sexualize teenagers, trivialize power and silence women. The models used to portray, "everyday women," are incredibly thin, tall, and beautiful. The images of women used in advertising are damaging and unrealistic. Advertising affects many of our actions. Jessica Moore states in her article, Women and Advertising, "Each person in America sees an average of 1500 advertisements per day, which is about one ad per minute"(1). Moore also says that most Americans believe that the ads do not affect them in any way, nor does it affect their actions, but in fact, ads influence our thoughts, attitudes and actions(1). If the advertisements did not influence our actions, then the companies would not spend two billion dollars a year on advertising. It works! Many women buy weight loss pills or participate in programs, because the women in the ads for these companies are thin and beautiful. Moore suggests that American wo
These ad's do not accidentally suggest these messages. Common Culture suggests, "Even their simplest and most seemingly direst advertisements still carry subtly powerful messages"(49). 9)Clothing ads normally display teenage girls posing with tight shirts and low pants. Many women in America today want to be thinner, taller, and prettier, why not target them? These images in the ads only add to women's low self-esteem. One, to try and feel stronger and the other, because they are strong. There are many stay at home dad's in today's society as well as many women driving trucks, but the ads continue to display them as one being a "woman's job" and the other being a "man's vehicle". Kilbourne explains that a woman's body language in ads is normally passive and vulnerable and a man's is usually powerful and aggressive(par. The woman portrayed in the ads is, according to Kilbourne, "that of a very tall, thin woman- a woman who would meet the criteria for anorexia as 15% below normal weight. In most ads involving children, women are portrayed as being the one doing the child care, and in truck commercials it's usually men driving the truck. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2004. All of this damaging advertising is, in fact, intentional.
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