RR #2 Kilbourne

    "Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt" by Jean Kilbourne is an article intended on informing the audience on how advertisement corporations have twisted and skewed sexual appeal in advertisements to glorify rape, violence, and objectification.  She continues to write that these marketers use tactics that may not exactly trigger your "sexy" nerve right away, but it might just be shock value.  This way the individual will retain it the ad more in their subconscious. 

    

    #2. Personally, I don’t think it’s a big deal to depict men or women as sex objects in advertisements.  Maybe it’s cause I, personally, make a very active strive to avoid advertisements as a whole.  In all truth I feel bad for the people that get all their news from the Lamestream media and build all their assumptions from billboards, magazines and televisions.  Now THAT’S repulsive.  You think an advertisement with two people gettin’ it on is offensive?  Imagine the people who take that as truth, people who think that’s what the real world is like,  now that, is repulsive.  I can’t imagine that anyone would ever believe a single word a corporation says and take it as unbiased truth .The real issue here is how much advertisements are flooding our lives.  Everywhere you look there’s another god forsaken advertisement in your face.  “You need this” “You need that” “This product will make you smell good all the time” “This product will get you all the ladies we promise”.  It’s ridiculous.  The American people play victim and expect everyone else to pick up after them when everything hits the fan.  If more of the American population was active in politics and more aware of their surroundings, we could have avoided a lot of the tragedies that we currently face.  Let’s say for example, that, maybe 20 years ago, we foresaw how much advertising was taking over our live, maybe we could have set a limit to it, a constitutional limit on how much garbage these companies can throw at us.  I’ve been without cable for about 4 years now, and it was the best decision I’ve ever made, I am no longer up to date with pop-culture, I have no idea what movies are coming out, I can’t remember a single actors name besides like-… George Clooney and Heath Ledger (I even had to search the internet for that to get the spelling right), and I’ve never felt better.  The real problem we face as Americans is being the victim.   We can no longer blame companies for corrupting the way we think, we need to open our horizons as critical thinkers and break down these disgusting social norms that Big Brother has put into place.