To summarize the APA report, it argues that the article did a poor job in six ways of explaining how girls and women are sexualized and how sexualization negatively affects them. Two critisms the APA had for the article would be over-determined impact of sexualization on girls and women and conflation of objectification, sexual objectification, and sexualization. In the over-determined section, it tells us how sexual images and sexualization can have negative impact. The author tries to prove their point by using certain tactics like, only focusing on the negative impact, being bias towards evidence that could prove that there are upsides to sexual images, they’re not specific about what counts as sexual imagery, and using terms that have strong
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I picked stores that are huge and known to carry both girls and boys clothing in the store. I decided to do this for two reasons. One, I’ve noticed that girl’s clothing is a hot topic now because it’s deemed very inappropriate in this day and age. Two, I use to wear and shop for boy clothes when I was younger. Before the searching, I decided I was going to look for certain things. I was going to look for suggestive wording or phrases, aggressive/passive words or phrases, how much fabric and if a lot of skin would show, desgin, style, and I looked at size. To avoid biasness, I would try to focus on the same category of clothing. So I wouldn’t focus on dresses because the boy section didn’t have a dress category. Instead I focused on graphic tees, tops, and activewear. In activewear, I was noticing how many article of clothing there was. So, I decided to compare the clothing within their brand because not only would it help cut down on how many clothes I had to look at; but it also help me compare quality in the same brand. This technique was used for tops and graphic tees too.In the end, I found that boy clothing no matter what store or brand, they’ll have a wider variety and much better looking clothes. It reminded me why I started wear boys shirts, and why I still
I picked stores that are huge and known to carry both girls and boys clothing in the store. I decided to do this for two reasons. One, I’ve noticed that girl’s clothing is a hot topic now because it’s deemed very inappropriate in this day and age. Two, I use to wear and shop for boy clothes when I was younger. Before the searching, I decided I was going to look for certain things. I was going to look for suggestive wording or phrases, aggressive/passive words or phrases, how much fabric and if a lot of skin would show, desgin, style, and I looked at size. To avoid biasness, I would try to focus on the same category of clothing. So I wouldn’t focus on dresses because the boy section didn’t have a dress category. Instead I focused on graphic tees, tops, and activewear. In activewear, I was noticing how many article of clothing there was. So, I decided to compare the clothing within their brand because not only would it help cut down on how many clothes I had to look at; but it also help me compare quality in the same brand. This technique was used for tops and graphic tees too.In the end, I found that boy clothing no matter what store or brand, they’ll have a wider variety and much better looking clothes. It reminded me why I started wear boys shirts, and why I still