The manner how such kind of partiality was committed against women was vividly portrayed in the movie when it presented and emphasized the destructive psychological implications of the said typecasting of women in Advertising . While the movie was made in such a way that it showed comedy and cleverness , the slideshow production is to be noted for its daring and comprehensive effort to make the public realize the repulsive or disgusting representation of women in Advertising . The film used specific examples such as women being labeled as nothing but sex objects where their abnormally skinny bodies and manipulated camera-perfect appearances were obviously revealed in a humiliating manner . The women being subjected to Advertising stereotyping was also made clear by the film when the slide presentation stressed that the said harmful advertising reflections of women definitely destroyed the overall nature of women particularly when they wrongly determined the mainstream outlooks and actions towards
Mr. Zannata March 30, 2012 Battered Woman’s Syndrome: Homolka's Excuse Karla Homolka was the wife and accomplice of the infamous serial rapist and killer, Paul Bernardo. Homolka used the battered women's syndrome as a legal defense for her actions, but there is an abundance of evidence to prove that she lied and used the disorder as an excuse to lessen her sentence. Learned helplessness is used to describe a phycologic response of a person to the repeated unpredictable exposure to a painful stimuli. This may have been the case with Homolka, yet, as stated on a women's advocacy site, out of the group of women who are diagnosed with 'learned helplessness', only a very small percentage commit acts of murder or sexual assault. Therefore this disorder does not give Homolka an excuse for her crimes.
Grace Marks, in Margaret Atwood’s Alias Grace, is a young woman accused of murdering her master and his mistress, and is based on a true case. Grace Marks is a complex woman, as most of her personal traits are distorted because they are recorded by unreliable sources. These sources are mainly found in the media, such as newspapers, that tend to include inaccurate information rather than facts. Although the novel seems to be about the question of whether or not Grace Marks was guilty or innocent, it is truly about the Victorian notions of femininity. Women were seen as mortal, yet at the same time they were seducers and manipulators.
Response Paper #1 September 23, 2010 Female Sexuality Sexuality is often a word that when heard people often feel uncomfortable talking about, or believe it should just be kept to yourself. However, female sexuality has been a huge theme in history, women have battled discrimination, sexual tourcher, been labeled with derogatory names and have been seen as objects rather then people. In the novel Dracula, female sexuality is a major reoccurring theme. Taking place in Victorian England women were given two options set by societies firm expectations, she was either an innocent virgin or a marred mother, anyone who didn’t follow these guidelines was labeled a whore. In the novel we are presented with very different examples of female sexual expression and are brought with the idea of the “new woman”.
In a perfume ad released by Calvin Klein recently, a young woman was posed nude on a couch, seducing the camera, and the perfume bottle was tucked away nearly out the frame. The photographer posed the women as a tool, using her sexual appeal and her body as a means of selling the product. Essentially, women are being significantly rewarded for their sexual attractiveness as opposed to their intelligence, virtues, and personality. This in turn causes the average women to question her validity in society; her sexual appeal, her image, and her body as opposed to non-observable characteristics like her capability. This also snowballs into the belief that objectifying women is justifiable because it is so publicly shown in magazines, television ads, and billboards.
Advertising media adversely impacts women's body image, which can lead to unhealthy behavior as women and girls strive for the ultra-thin body idealized by the media. Advertising images have also set unrealistic ideals for males, and men and boys are beginning to risk their health to achieve the well-built media standard. “The Empire of Images in Our World of Bodies,” Susan Bordo seeks to disrupt the unrelenting invasion of unhealthy and unrealistic beauty standards that hold sway in a media driven society. By using real life examples like how Susan Sarandon looks younger today than she did twenty years ago and how little girls are “vamping up”, Bordo emphasizes how the media saturates our environment with Hollywood standards of female beauty that dictate personal identity. Bordo demonstrates that women of all ages are strongly affected by the media; as such, women may feel pressure to attain and maintain a thin youthful figure and may endure surgical and cosmetic procedures or starvation to obtain it.
They had the perception of nurses that they were bimbos and objects of extracurricular activity. Developing through the years the media have also shaped the stereotype of nurses as the battle-axe or matron figure an overweight, asexual, fearsome female who was of a tyrannical nature (Hall and Ritchie, 2009). They have also presumed that nurses were very bossy, stern and firm in their position, like a matron figure that Hattie Jacques acted in the Carry on Film (Carry on nurse, 1959). It seemed that nurses were more worried about working in a clan and tidy ward than caring for patients and making them feel comfortable or showing empathy towards their
There are many factors that contribute to the rise of sex trafficking and prostitution in Iraq: the United States-led war and the chaos it has generated by it; the lack of the law being enforced instills the growing insecurity; corruption of the government and those in power; the upsurge in religious extremism; poor economy; pressure of women to marry; discrimination against women and gender-based violence; kidnappings of girls and women; the protection perpetrators receive for of their crimes, especially crimes against women; and the globalization of new technologies associated with the sex industry (Murray,
It is believed that the development of girls and boys only emerges when the child enters the phallic stage; this is where the focus of its libido moves to the genitals. This is where the boys enter the Oedipus complex and start to have sexual desires for their mother. They see their father as standing in the way of these desires and thus creates a hate/ death wish for the father, however at the same time realises that the father is more powerful than he is and starts to fear that if his desires for his mother are found out by his father that he will castrate him, causing castration anxiety. The way the boy handles with this conflict is by identifying and associating with his father to try and become more like him. The boy then starts copying his father, picking up his traits; these newly acquired traits form the boy’s superego and in taking on his father as himself the boy automatically takes on the male gender identity.
The many celebrities like Miley Cyrus and magazines who all try to portray their idea of a woman, alter and distort their perception of womanhood. These girls wear overtly sexual and suggestive clothing and opening act promiscuously in their interactions, forced to go through extreme diets, wear large amounts of make-up and even modify their bodies through surgeries all due to the cumulative pressures of friends, family and their developed self-confidence issues to become this counterfeit ideal. These girls wear uncomfortable heels, constricting clothing and skimpy outfits to hyper sexualize themselves. This is what they believe it takes to become fun, sexy and a desirable woman in today’ society. They go out, drink, “grind” and “twerk” (different forms of highly sexual dancing), and hook up with random guys.