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Killing Us Softly: Advertising's Image of Women

NetRunner says...

I'm a little late to the party, but my $0.02 on this topic is that I think most feminist groups are focusing on the wrong things. It's not that advertising has such a relentlessly high standard on female beauty, it's that our culture seems to accept and reinforce people making judgments about women based on their appearance.

Right now, it's socially acceptable for women to hold high-paying jobs, or act in a professionally aggressive manner, but only if she's attractive. If you're plain, or god forbid, downright unattractive, you're just a bitch, possibly a "cast-iron" bitch if you attain a position of power, and assert that power in the aggressive way men are always encouraged to.

There's a heavily reinforced cultural undercurrent that a woman's worthiness as a person is tightly connected to her attractiveness. Part of that comes from the pervasiveness of female beauty in American media -- even the "ugly" women are beautiful (take Tina Fey on 30 Rock as a prime example), because actually plain or unattractive women aren't allowed to be cast as anything but totally unsympathetic bitches, or maybe some sort of lovable grandma character if she's grey haired and wrinkled.

But I think this particular screed is missing the point -- the issue isn't advertisements with their objectification (of EVERYTHING), with overt sexual imagery, and impossible standards of beauty, it's the way that gets carried over into all the other aspects of mass media. There are no plain female musicians rocketing up the top 40, no average looking female news reporters, no sitcom with a normal-looking female character, no dramas where the sharpest intellect is a unremarkable-looking woman in her 40's...that's the real issue, not what they're doing in the ad world.

Tina Fey and The Bookaneers - Sesame Street!

30 Rock - Meaningful looks

Tina Fey really, really hates Paris Hilton

30 Rock - Why are you wearing a tux!?

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30 Rock - Why are you wearing a tux!?

30 Rock - Why are you wearing a tux!?

Daily Show on the Bush Tax Cuts when they were first passed

JiggaJonson says...

>> ^Yogi:

Only Conan has been this consistently good. I'm surprised we haven't revolted against SNLs inconsistent performances.


Speak for yourself. SNL fucking blows these days. Tina Fey, Will Ferrel, KEENAN THOMPSON!?!? Urgh genuinely not funny in my humble opinion.

Louis C.K. now HE is funny. Same with Norm McDonald.

What the Queen of England is REALLY like (SNL)

Mutual Savings Bank - "Hi!" - Featuring Tina Fey (1995)

Crazy Sprinkler Lady

csnel3 says...

@Unsung_Hero .
Thats funny. this should start a discussion on this subject. We all have heard the internet versions of misheard lyrics, but I had a friend who, for real, thought billy Idol singing "eyes with out a face" was a plea of "Howza bout a date" ( gotta sing it to hear it).
I bet there are a lot more original misheard lyrics amongst the sifters.

>> ^Unsung_Hero:
>> ^rougy:
You all mock her, and yet, who among you has ever caught a rainbow and submitted it to interrogation?
Arrest my case!

I sure hope you meant "I rest my case" and you don't actually think it's "Arrest my case". It's OK if you did, a lot of people have done this before... no need to fret. I had a friend that thought the lyrics to Tina Turner's song "What's love got to do with it" was actually "What's love Doctor Do, Doctor DoLittle".
But it is rather funny! HAHA.... Sorry.

Crazy Sprinkler Lady

Unsung_Hero says...

>> ^rougy:

You all mock her, and yet, who among you has ever caught a rainbow and submitted it to interrogation?
Arrest my case!


I sure hope you meant "I rest my case" and you don't actually think it's "Arrest my case". It's OK if you did, a lot of people have done this before... no need to fret. I had a friend that thought the lyrics to Tina Turner's song "What's love got to do with it" was actually "What's love Doctor Do, Doctor DoLittle".

But it is rather funny! HAHA.... Sorry.

Tina Fey really, really hates Paris Hilton

How to trick people into thinking you're good looking



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