Women and Advertising

Most of the money the media makes is from advertising, so they go all out to get it done in a way appealing to the public. For the most part, women have a lot of roles to play in ads, but they do have a lot of demands and restrictions that drive them crazy if you will.

It is not far-fetched to know that their self-confidence and self-esteem are affected by the initial order to stay thin. Girls are supposed to be sweet and soft and sexy and be attractive.

To get to that point, they eat tiny portions of a meal in order not to put on weight and for those that may have put on a few pounds, employ different tactics to lose as much weight as possible including starving.

Most of the ads I decided to take a look at, show that these women go at length to look good for the cameras. They certainly do their level best to fit in clothes that make their sizes look smaller on the screens.

In some of these ads, the depiction of women was mostly sexual as it is clear that sex sells. It seems as if society is comfortable with it and is on to it in almost every aspect of life. These acts have been going on for ages.

It has become commonplace to have sex images in almost everything in our daily lives.

Things have changed a little bit regarding the way the media represent women in the past.

In the recent advertising of women especially, homemakers were not entirely friendly, and that was not only damaging to their image, but it was also demoralizing. Perhaps the women’s movement had something to do with it.

Society’s understanding of beauty has not changed much over the years. Still today, the ads are full of fair skinned, thin and perhaps long and curly hair women.

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