"Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to." - Pablo Picasso
Friday, December 2, 2011
Are ads going too far?
This group that produced this video couldn't have found a better way to show you how the advertisements are taking it too far and in some ways much too graphic. When does it stop being ads and start getting pornographic? Advertisements like these are able to be seen anywhere which is one down fall to the advertisement community because they're teaching younger girls and/or boys that looking in such ways are acceptable and giving them false hope because the women in these advertisements are mostly computerized. Due to technology today they can take up to 7 different women and make it into one "perfect" woman.
For example, there could be a 15 year old girl that may be heavier and she starts to see these advertisements all around. She then starts to recognize what is "expected" of her and she starts to resource to other ways in order to become skinner or more like the "perfect" girl in the ad. This would be happening because she's naive and is going to think there's something wrong with her if she doesn't begin to look like what is being thrown at her in every direction. As well as the fact that she doesn't even know how to fit in with her peers because they expect real humans to look like the advertisements, so they end up judging her because she doesn't look like her. What if this 15 year old girl was someone you knew? You would want to help her realize that she's beautiful and there's nothing that can tell her she's not. It's sad when people start to begin to get brain washed by the media so soon they end up having tunnel vision and they don't think of other ways to fix this problem.
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