Killing us softly

[Cistron]

Hi all,

I stumbled across an interesting presentation on YouTube. It is generally about the perception of normalcy we get from advertisements, but specifically how women are portraited.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svpMan9cWyo (4 parts)

The most surprising part to me was how women and girls are "classically" posed and how those themes are actually everywhere.

Mike

 

[MadMacro]

Hmm. Big subject, and one that's always bothered me, I won't even refer to my wife as 'the wife' for fear of objectivisation.

Interesting link, thanks for passing it on.

 

[DiddyDave]

Hmm. Big subject, and one that's always bothered me, I won't even refer to my wife as 'the wife' for fear of objectivisation.

Oh please :shake:

Yep the link woman makes a good point while wearing make-up with her hair nicely done

But where's the male version? Are we not all meant to be chiselled with 6-packs (not of beer!) Super lovers, very well endowed, powerful, wealthy and yet great fathers with our softer side shining through :shrug:

Good job that describes me, but you lesser mortals may get hung-up about it

DD

 

[MartynK]

Hmm. Big subject, and one that's always bothered me, I won't even refer to my wife as 'the wife' for fear of objectivisation.

Interesting link, thanks for passing it on.

I don't refer to my wife as "the wife" or "the missus" either, but I doubt if she's ever heard of "objectivisation". She just doesn't like it, and prefers "my wife" or "Valerie".