Objectified – DivX Version (Normal Quality), iPod/iPhone Version
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IMDB rating: 7.40 Plot: A feature-length documentary about our complex relationship with manufactured objects and, by extension, the people who design them. |
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Does advertising featuring female models lead to women being objectified?
If so, what do you suggest to correct the issue?
The advertising industry is blamed for objectifying women; yet, prevention of women from employment in that industry would be refusing women’s employment rights.
Can one have the cake and eat it too?
Any points missing in this debate?
I don’t understand. I thought women are already objects.
Real Awesome Jowls | Sep 19, 2008
If advertisers commit to keeping sexism out of their creations, we won’t need to have this discussion anymore.
Rio Madeira | Sep 19, 2008
Kudos to Real Awesome Jowels for being real. The only way to correct this is for women to refuse to cater to the notion that you have to be anorexic, gorgeous and wear the latest/greatest in fashion to be successful in your lives. If we don’t buy the stuff being advertised, it takes the wind out of their sales (pun intended).
noitall | Sep 19, 2008
The problem at the very core is that advertising of this type sells products. If all of a sudden one company agreed to stop advertising in this way it would lose business to the other companies. The only way this will ever stop is if the advertising companies agree to break the cycle by banning such advertisements. It is very very unlikely this will ever happen in the near future.
kkkay55 | Sep 19, 2008
A model is a high paying job for women but their careers last usually from age 16 to 23. Ad execs tend to work for a good salary for 20 to 30 years.
The rest of the women who don’t look like models will spend a large chunk of their income trying to live up to the expectations of their gender.
So overall no, objectifying women doesn’t not benefit them even if it does provide a few (very few!) young women with an exciting job for a few years.
CC | Sep 19, 2008