LET'S TALK ABOUT SEX BABY!

I agree with a lot of Jean Kilbourne’s argument, Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt.
As everyone knows, sex sells. And I like the point Kilbourne makes about how products being sold in ads are eroticized. They give people false hopes and negative perceptions about both sexes, but mainly women. The one example she uses about the Victoria Secret commercials and how they emphasize that if you wear their product you too can be irresistible like the sexily clad model. This isn’t the message ads want to be sending to women. There is no value, no morale; it’s just teaching women to aspire to be these sexed up objects that men can’t get their hands off of. Another one of the author’s strong points was the idea that ads advocate women into desiring the “bad boy”, because in our society it is accepted to be attracted to the aggressive but sexy man. They also advocate that men should be players and that that type of man is what women like. The ad for DRAKKAR NOIR shows a man staring straight into the camera with two women hanging on to him. I don’t know that statistics, but just from people I’m associated with, the concept of being a player and cheating is in fact socially accepted.
When Kilbourne talked about the ad that said “If your date won’t listen, try a velvet hammer”, I totally agreed with her as far as ads advocating men doing anything to bed women, even if it means taking advantage of them. And it was just interesting to see the statistics of rape of women who were drunk and how ads can still advocate getting involved with women when they’ve had several alcoholic beverages. Don’t they understand that rape is very serious and isn’t something to be taken lightly? I don’t care if a person is drunk or not no one has the right to violate another person in that way.

La television

So, tonight I watched Law and Order Criminal Intent. I think that show can gear towards like three types of audiences: adults, young adults (20ies), and higher up teens (17 & up). A lot of the commercials that came on had to do with cars, name brand food items, restaurants, and dogs. Two commercials that i found interesting were one of the car commercials and a Chile's commercial.
Honda had a commercial about one of their new cars. It appealed to my eyes as an individual viewing the commercial because the car was a cool color (blue), and seemed to be driving smoothly. It wasn't like some old whooptie clunking down the street. The unseen narrator of the commercial also named improvements/new features the car had. Near the end of the commercial, the narrator was saying how the price was such a great deal, but how it was limited time only. As a person viewing something like that on T.V. I feel the pressure that if I want the car, then I not only want to get that product, but have to get it by a certain time unless I'll miss the sale.
The Chile's commercial had like a waitress bringing out some of the restaurants signature dishes. The restaurant isn't only advertising the food by just showing what it looks like, they make it so the camera is zoomed in on the product and slathered or dipped in whatever sauce there is involved. And then there was scene of like a waitress bringing out a platter of food to a whole group of friends. So the restaurant is showing that they don't only have good food, but that you can also have a great time with your friends in the process by just being in the environment of the restaurant.

Student Directed Plays

Alrighttttyyyy,
So I went to the Student run plays and I have to say they were fantabulous. I really enjoyed them all...some I didn't understand completely but that's alright.

The Pronoun Game: Loved it. I thought that it was a very interesting play and had a great plot. My most favorite line in there was the one about the grandma and how she was a bitch...it made me laugh hardcore lol. I never really thought about how a person could feel who had two parents of the same sex. i thought Ian and (can't think of his name right now...um..um..DANIEL!) were really tight for playing those roles. Alot of people could have been weirded out or like afraid of what other classmates/parents could have thought, but I really respected them for that. Any way, the play made me think about things like gay marriage and gay couples having kids.

If Books Could Kill: I loved the suspense this story had, I was like engaged the whole time trying to figure out why the girl wanted the book back so much and why he wouldn't just give it to her, why he insisted on having it. I really didn't understand the end so if anyone would like to shed some light please feel free lol.

Heaven: This play made me laugh, it was pretty ingenious. Everything like flowed together and had a reason behind everything (ie. the flood, God, the random selection of Jesus the prophet) The plot was awesome and makes you wonder about religion and its origins.