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T oday I was watching one of the most addictive channels i have ever seen… E! Channel. I am a foreigner in the U.S and for the past two years I got to know who Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie are and what they do to be famous; Britney Spears issues; Britney’s little sister issues; Lindsey Lohan…, her family, her neighbors, her dog… OMG! How i’ve been 22 years of my life without knowing who this people were, and still I had a happy life. Now, two years after, i get home and i turn on the T.V and there it is! E! Channel. I have the T.V on even if I am not watching it, but once in a while i get hooked to whatever is on. The best part of it is that i do not even care about what happens to Brit or if Lindsey’s sister is recording a music album! But still I watch it and i even make comments on what I see..
Have you people ever seen the commercials on E!? Now that is summer time, and it is a channel mostly target to women, all the ads are about loosing weight naturally, by eating the most disgusting meals and taking two thousand pills a day, or by spending all your savings getting a liposuction. But who does not want to look super fantastic this summer? Have you girls seen what is out there? Top ten bodies! If we are not a 10, don’t even bother to get in your bikini. My question is; are they ever going to promote healthy habits to get a ten body? Because what they never tell the audience is that those super sexy bodies from T.V are not the product of the latest diet pill. They usually come after hours of working out and eating a healthy diet. I found this video that shows what we people are exposed to everyday.
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Good video of the representation of women in the media in the US.. I was curious, in your country are women portrayed as sex objects? and if so.. how do men in your country view women as oppose to men in the US.
In the US, men are very unique group as consumers. Men are difficult creatures to persuade to buy a product or even look at one. Hence forth, lets use sex, I don’t know when advertisers started to adopt this theory, but if it did’t work… no sex in advertising, ..and if so, women would be less of a consumer because the images we see at this stage, no need to buy to impress yourself and others….. “The media is an my psyche… get out” …lol
Comment by ky00 July 3, 2008 @ 2:58 pmThe video that you added is really powerful; the cuts are intensenly fast, meaning that constantly negative information goes into our encoded memories, which is a scary thought. Negative reinforcement is constantly bombarding children. It is frightening. As a woman I can relate to that, I can associate. In my teenage years: I consumed pills, devoted laxatives, and faced bulimia. After some psychological therapy, I now see myself as an authorative woman who dominantes her own destiny without worring as much as before about weight. Still I do have my moments, but I’ve not been vomiting ever since I closed that chapter of my life. I stopped and that’s it.
Comment by Latiza July 7, 2008 @ 5:38 amI hate watching those “news” shows all about celebrities and THEIR lives when I have my own… but it sucks you in!! After about an hour, I think to myself… “am I seriously still watching?? I don’t even care about these people!!” …but it’s so hard to change the channel!!
Comment by silisali July 7, 2008 @ 6:58 amhaha