The Role Of The Dehumanization Of Women In Advertising

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After watching television and a couple YouTube videos advertisements or ads added about 2 minutes into a 10 minute Buzzfeed video and after watching The Loud House on Nickelodeon a 30-minute show was reduced close to 20 minutes of actual runtime and the remaining minutes Nickelodeon non-sense and ads. Despite that, in this age of time ads have revolutionized in both positive and negative ways ranging from time-consuming, pure marketing or purely disrespecting females. For example, while watching “Miss Representation” the dehumanizing ways ads have objectified woman is and has been disappointing and although such ways aren’t new they have changed somewhat in my opinion for the better but could strongly be disagreed.

With that in mind, after asking my fiancé about how she felt about ads she as most would say said are annoying but abundant in online or mainstream media. Not only that but she also mentioned how ads are somewhat sexualized in ways that expose women in order to bring about profit like Old Spice’s hot tube “Mandroid” ad; where women in bikinis fawn over a man
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Models along with various ads have had a physical, emotional, and mental effect on adolescents resulting in eating disorders, bullying, suicide, and ultimately alienation. With such negative effects on adolescents, ads have had a significant role in all cultures especially here in the U.S which has shaped the ideal image and has had everyone on their toes just to fit in with the rest of the crowd or ideal group. Not only that, but the media has changed the perception of women in the eyes of men where physical features are the only important things and not what they say or their role in society which is seen strongly with news anchors and political

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