Two Ways A Woman Can Get Hurt Analysis

Reflection We talked about advertisement this week. It is an attractive topic to me and I really enjoyed the discussion in class, which is about the influence of advertisement on women. Both of the article---Two ways a woman can get hurt: advertisement and violence and the video we watched in class are take the position of advertising may hurt woman. Personally I agree with their opinions. Advertisement has influenced people for many years. It also affects our aesthetic of beauty and values. Many characters in advertisements are women. Their feminine physical attractiveness and beauty are the main reasons make them so popular in advertising. But their roles may influence some values of society and stereotypes. For instance, the article “Two ways a woman can get hurt” showed us an advertisement is about two women around a man. The man looks confident and he is not interested in any of these two women. But these two women seem competing for this man. Actually it passes information to us that men are polygamous by nature. And women are often in low position of the relationship. Also we can see many sexy and half-naked women are posing themselves in the advertisements. But those advertisement are not related to women. Sexy women become the point of interest to attract people’s eyes. Young people are …show more content…
Many women are not satisfied with them and try to do something like lose weight to make them confident. The truth is many people still judge a woman with her appearance. Value of women depends on what they look. We get condition to think about what should women look like from media. That is why we always want us become perfect like them. Because of the illness of value, women need to care more about their face, body and clothing. It limits a lot for women to do something else like men can do. Many women feel anxious and some of them are self-objectify. They feel low confident with