I feel that Jean is correct to a certain point on her view of advertising. There are some very bad ads out there about women, but there are also some ads that were in her presentation that I had absolutely no idea what the problem in it was. Sex sells and it is no secret. I don't know why they would not use a tool that is going to help them make money.
I can not think of any ads right now after seeing that presentation. I feel that she picked all the worst advertisements to show in this presentation. A man is generally taller than a woman so I don't see why that is such a big area of focus. More than anything I feel that this presentation was a femenist plea for men to be punished. On a scale of 0-100, 100 being the best presentation I've ever seen I would give this a 40 just because of its information. There was very little common ground that I had with this person. If it were a man giving this presentation I think it would have had a much more affect on me and the total audience. Also, she talked about how all the advertisements were heterosexual. That is the total way it should be. A man's and a woman's body compliment each other not two women or two men. Heterosexuality is what is normal. I mean this whole homosexual thing has just progressed way too far. The Bible talks about Adam and Eve for Christsake not ADAM and STEVE. All I'm saying is that I think homosexuality a made up thing that people to use when they don't necessairly fit in.
I would consider myself a consumer, and who in this world doesn't consider themself a consumer. If you buy things than you are a consumer. You have to buy certain things whether they treat women or men bad in their ads.
Dear Mrs. Jean Kilbourne I have a question for you. Just because a company doesn't advertise how you would like do you refuse to buy their product? If your answer to this is yes then I forsure know that you are psycho. Every company does this now a days. I agree that this form of advertising is shaping our culture, but the corporations are set out to mak a profit and they are going to do anything that they can.
So this is all I have to really say about this topic at this time. I feel that I haven't been effected by this presentation one bit. The reason for this is because I, personally, did nothing for this. People are looking to get ahead in life and this i s one way they found that works.
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I do agree with you that she problebly did find all of the really bad adds and put them in her movie, there were only about 3 adds in the entire movie that i have seen. I think that people need to start being able to filter thing and take thing as they are. the only reason they put that sort of stuff in ads is because it works, if dozens of puppys running around worked they would do that.
ReplyDeletewell put i agree this jean girl is making terrible connections between the ads and their meanings. and her being upset about ads isnt going to change anything because she isnt going to genetically make women taller than men or make homosexuality more acceptable or make people want to put ugly people in their ads.
ReplyDeleteI completely disagree on the whole Adam and Eve thing. Just because the bible says something doesn't mean it is true. Why would anyone honestly ever say I am gay as an excuse for being different. Why would they ever want to put that kind of criticism on themselves. It makes no sense. Plus the Bible contradicts itself all the time so making it a ligit piece of literature is somewhat hard for me personally to do.
ReplyDeleteThis is my advice for you, talk to someone who is gay and see why they came out, find out their interests and where they came from. I think you would be surprised to find out that they have a lot more in common with you than you would think. Plus you can learn a lot from them and maybe it would change your mind.
Derek. Yes Mause is a good book depicting Jews as Mice and Cats as Nazis. It's really good and you should read it.
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