Thursday, January 23, 2014
Sexualized images
To me I do not believe that these images directly affect me. I believe that these images are used for specific purposes that can affect other people. For instance you see sexualized images of men and women in advertisements. A company could use a fit half naked celebrity to advertise a weight loss supplement claiming that if you take this product you will have the same results. These images can be misleading in they don’t mention the other possible factors like diet and exercise. For others I believe these images can affect how they are perceived. For instance the perception of what woman should look like can be affected in a young girl who grows up playing with Barbie dolls. The doll might make the girl think to be pretty you should be skinny and blond like Barbie and that can affect the child. Then the child can move from playing with dolls to watching Miley Cyrus on Disney channel. By watching her on TV and having her be a popular star with younger girls it can affect how a makes her own image. To now where Miley Cyrus is shown in sexualized images it does have an effect on how young girls dress and act which I do believe to be a negative effect of sexualized imagery.
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You make a good point about how advertisements are misleading in terms of diet & exercise. I think a lot of women have these unrealistic expectations about how their bodies should look, and have this idea that supermodels don't have to try to look good, they just naturally do. If you read interviews with say, for example, Victoria's Secret Angels, while they are super photoshopped in catalogues, on top of that, they exercise nearly all day every day, assigned to trainers that are specifically hired to work with them. Particularly with constant bombardment by diet pills that stake claims like "You don't have to change your daily lifestyle! Just take this pill, no need for exercise!" I think it changes the perceptions of the average person and makes them think that they just weren't lucky enough to be born that way. Certainly genetics play a large factor, but you're right in that it's misleading the amount of work that goes into looking that way, because it's their job to work that hard to look good.
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