Question(s): I'm still not sure if we should have a focus of objectification of women in media for the male satisfaction. I feel this may be very hard to research.
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Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Introduction
Objectification is the degrading process of turning people into mere objects. This "media appeal" is often used in beer commercials like Budweiser and BudLight when women are made to look like the actual beer bottle. The woman in the ad is often sexually appealing so that advertisers can exploit her body and market it as an object. The banner of this blog is an example of how women aren't advertised as actual human beings, but as objects. The picture in the banner is of a woman's naked back side and a portion of her butt is cut out like a slice of cake. This suggests that this woman is just "a piece of ass" since that is the main focus of the ad.
Question(s): I'm still not sure if we should have a focus of objectification of women in media for the male satisfaction. I feel this may be very hard to research.
Link: Wikipedia definition
Question(s): I'm still not sure if we should have a focus of objectification of women in media for the male satisfaction. I feel this may be very hard to research.
Link: Wikipedia definition
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Nice work. I know you spent a lot of time on the banner and it looks good, but its difficult to read the "f" in "for" because its on a yellow background. The lesson is: make sure your message is clear and don't get carried away with design. To answer your question: I think that you can talk about the phenomenon of female objectification (what it is, who has written about it) and then get an article or two about men seeing these images and what it does to them. There's a great article by a UMich Communication Studies alum called "College men, their magazines, and sex". Check that out and may an article or two it cites or that cites it. Here's another one: "Women as sex objects and victims in print advertisements"
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