During this week of class I have seen the light, of sociology that is. After one week of videos, class discussions and some hard thinking about how media, advertisement, and entertainment effects who you are.
Well first is advertisement effects woman in more ways you could think of. If you take a close look at ads involving women you see that it portrays women to have to be a certain way if they want to be considered a women. It makes women have to be extremely skinny to the point were some have died. If your not then your not considered "attractive". In some advertisement such as the dove, it shows a picture of a very sexy women, but she doesn't actually exist. When you see models on billboards and you say to your self i wish i had a girl like her well you better keep hoping cause she most likely doesn't exist with photo shop now a days people can make other people look like someone there not. With this constant changing of how people look women become more and more self conscious about them self. It makes women want to be some one who doesn't exist and this is leading society down the wrong road.
It not only effects women but men to. Well about 40 years ago being a man had whole different definition then toady's man. Back then to be a man meant to have a job, walk to school instead of having your mom drive you, and if some one messed with you, you beat them up. You didn't take a gun to school and kill 20 people. You didn't act like a wannabee gangster and carry a gun around. If you compare movies from the 80's to present day movies you see that being a man you now have to be huge muscular wise and carry big guns, and just be jacked. Now you see more school shootings because boys are trying to be manly.
As you can see Media, Advertisement, and Entertainment is teaching people to be someone there not and leading society down the wrong road.
After what you said int class, it was really nice reading this because it actually seems like you have an idea of where girls are coming from which is what we want guys to understand. And it's horrible that pop culture in our society is promoting such unhealthy people, which have bad psychological effects on other women.
ReplyDeleteCareful of affect (action) and effect (thing) the way I remember it is thE Effect and Affect=Action Media Affects us...
ReplyDeleteAlso woman = 1 woman, not women.
They're = They are
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