She does this by creating hybrid creatures from mutilated dolls; she combines both young and old, and male and female body parts. “Untitled 188” (1992) is unmistakably meant to shock and terrify the audience. The shock and terror come from what the sexual element really stands for – death, power and aggression. In the artwork you can visibly see the mannequin’s sex organs; looking further into the photograph you can see her blank expression filled with helplessness and yearning. ‘Untitled 263’ depicts a hermaphrodite pelvis, mutilated and dislocated.
These are all clear examples supporting Kilbourne’s view on how advertisements in modern society are becoming worse by further dehumanizing women. I completely agree with this documentary and Kilbourne’s view of what advertisements are doing to women in society today. Just as it’s difficult to be healthy in a toxic physical environment, with poisoned air or polluted drinking water, it’s difficult to be healthy in a “toxic cultural environment” that surrounds us with unhealthy
Bodies are stabbed, sliced in half, decapitated or otherwise mutilated. Many people view the violence in this film as disturbing or desensitizing. While I certainly agree that the violence in action and horror movies with weak plots and character development is disturbing, desensitizing and unnecessarily overt, violence serves an important purpose as a storytelling tool in Kill Bill. The violence that the Bride endures at the hands of her colleagues at the wedding allows us to establish a connection with her as the good guy of the story and identify Bill and the rest of the Deadly Vipers as the bad guys. The hacking and slashing that the Bride doles out to her enemies functions as a cathartic experience for both her and the audience.
In the article, “Controlling your reality” Paige Pfleger states “Reality television can also preserve old fashioned notions about sexual stereotyping. Women are encouraged to fulfill roles as “the slut” and are simultaneously devalued by doing so” sadly these are the types of stereotypes young girls and women grow up with (3). Little girls are told to act a certain way only for society to reject and humiliate them for it. In The Hunger Games Collins makes a point by sexually objectifying Glimmer, a career tribute, because she looks like the stereotype of sexy. In the novel Collins writes, “The girl tribute from District 1, looking provocative in a see-through gold gown…With that flowing blonde hair, emerald green eyes, her body tall and lush… she’s sexy all the way”(125).Collins makes it clear that society has a very specific image of what sexy should look like.
Thelma and Louise: A Provocative Movie Sara Lugo For people who are just looking for entertainment, Thelma and Louise could simply be a “chick flick”. For those with a sharp-eye, the film is a women’s yawp, a condemnation of the conventional rules, and a firm resistance to the patriarchal society. The movie released in 1991 divided the audience in two groups: the feminist and the anti-feminist according to the way the public received Hollywood’s change of perspective for this movie, which presents the events from the female’s character’s point of view. Thelma and Louise sabotaged the established social archetypes about gender roles diffusing the women’s image of passiveness, submission, and domesticity, caricaturing the stereotypical male characters, and exalting female’s friendship, instead of the competitiveness and rivalry the media have always shown between women. We born female or male, and depends on our sex, society assigns us a gender role “societal members decide what being male or female mean” (Burke 1).
How Does Carol Ann Duffy Present Women in Mrs Aesop and Litany? In both Mrs Aesop and Litany Duffy presents women at quite different angles. In Mrs Aesop Duffy makes reference to women as blunt and constantly criticising, a trait that is very unusual for a feminist. Because of her jealousy she makes fun of his masculinity and insults him the sex was diabolical. Showing a stronger side to Mrs Aesop, but also a rather childish one.
Along with the use of comedy as a means of critique, Fey also incorporates humor as a tool to downplay the serious aspect of her topic and as a way of keeping the attention of her audience. Fey incorporates humor throughout her entire narrative in order to critique the patriarchal society that she finds herself surrounded by. Fey’s use of humor is made up of sarcasm and does a good job at making her harder to refute. “The only person I can think of who has escaped the ‘crazy’ moniker is Betty White, which, obviously, is because people still want to have sex with her” (Fey p.3). Fey makes choses to talk about the way women are treated in the entertainment industry with a joke on Betty White, which targets both sexism and ageism, which Fey repeatedly addresses, but with a softer approach through the use of humor.
The song, directed to various celebrity women, presents today’s modern woman as scandalous, with an unsung claim of reevaluation of oneself and purity needs to be reintroduced in the media. The band’s lyrics to the song convey a stereotypical Hollywood woman who is nonetheless worthless and disgraceful in her behavior and appearance. In the opening verse of the song, a scene depicting a socialistic woman in revealing clothing with an addiction to cocaine is introduced to the listener. According to lines 5–7 in the lyrics, rehab is where the authorities, or her publicists, have to send her to protect her image (Papa Roach, 2008)1. In the recent decade rehab has been used as a way to fix reputations.
Hollywood has brought light to this terrible issue, in such well known examples as,scenes from the movies GI JANE and TOP GUN and many others. Particularly in these two motion pictures, there areseveral scenes depicting incidents of sexual harassment/ discrimination.
Women over time have been the subject of judgment, critic, and ridicule, having women’s bodies parts portrayed as objects and being objectified through advertisements creates the fight for equality for women that Jean Kilbourne has devoted most of her life trying to achieve. Kilbourne a feminist herself preaches the issue of objectification of women through her writings of Killing Us Softly. Killing us softly reflects the issue at hand by raising the awareness of objectification of women through certain advertisements. Advertisements Kilbourne refers to in her essay are the ones that don’t portray women in the correct way or show the proper equality women have in present day. Women being inferior to males, having their mouths covered, or being mistreated within an add is something that should be stopped or at least being acknowledged that it is a negative message toward women.