Respond to the film Killing Us Softly. What impact does advertising have on how people view themselves? Can you describe or include in your blog an ad that perpetuates some of the messages Killborn describes?
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I feel like a lot of women look at the advertisements and think they need to look or act like what they see. A lot of girls aren’t satisfied with their own body, and who they are as a person that they think they need to look like the people they see in magazines. Because people think this way they do use that to make money on advertising the thing they know people are going to look at. I think that the way they make women look in advertisements is demeaning and puts women down. They make us women look like an object, and a product. While we looked through magazines in class I noticed a lot of pictures of men and women in pictures together. The pictures that had both women and men in them always had the women in positions in where they looked to be overpowered by the man. Why is this? Why do advertisement companies use this as a way to sell magazines?
The woman in this ad looks desperately unhappy. I wonder what the ad stylists were thinking when they decided to choose this particular shot of her face for the ad.
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