Video Games

Sex and steroetypes have now seemed into videio games and are polluting the minds of children. Even though the a 29 year old male is the peson that studies hahve found play the most video games, its children that are impressionable by what they see on the games. A 29 year old male should know what is right and what is real about a video game, while a child might not be sure.
Video games contain obsord amounts of violence, and people with unrealistic body types.
These unrealistic body types lead yonug peole to believe that woman are suppose to have overly large breast and tiny waist and men should be well chisled bodies. These images can lean young people to have harsh opinions of what they themselves should look like and could lead to unhealth habits. The way that woman can be portrayed in theses games can lead yound men to belive that this is way that real woman should be treated and it's not. Games show naked woman gagged and begging to be killed and prostitues being killed after sex. Those things aren't acceptable in real life, so why should they be in a game.
Second to the 29 year old that play the games are adelescent boys.
These boys should be seeing more holesmethngs than these things that are contained in these games. The top 10 selling games all contain violence and unrealistic body images and that isn't healthy for today's youth.
There should be ways to entertain these young men without filling their minds with garbage.

Sex and the Movies

Sex is once again used to sell something......movies. Some form of sexual cotent is found in alot of movie trailer and previews and this is fact because of the study done by oliver and kalyanaraman. In fact "on average the previews contained 1.51 sex scenes per minute" and that's alot of sex for a 30 second to three minute clip. Obviously the whole movie doesn't have that much sex in it and the producers can choose to put anything they want in the previews and trailers, but why do they always choose to show the sex. The movie industry is a multi billion dollar industry and whatever producers are doing is working becuase lots of movies are still being made. And they ae being viewed because of sex. In addition to movies promoting sex to sell themselves, it seems like the sexual portrayals tend to be about woman. Some it extremly short skirts such as in Empire records and other in other ways csuh as bathing suits or in a bed, as eluding to the fact that sex has just happened or is about to occur. Why can't the previews just tell what the movie is about without all the sex.

sex symbols

So throughout this class we have learned how everything degrades woman and makes everything about sex. As much as i want to believe that this isn't true, i came to the understanding this week that men see woman as sex symbols even if that is not what the woman is trying to protrey.
So i was working on Monday Tuesady night, at a fine dining restaurant in Addison, and i was solisited for sex by one of my customers. I did nothing to bring this own, and i wasn't dressed in a provacative manner, infact i had on black pants and a black high collared shirt. This man dined alone and said he was a business man from L.A. and was leaving Wednesday. He sat at my table fro serval hours and i always made simple conversation with him when i walked by to fill his water glass, which is part of my job. So as the night when on his conversation got my inapropiate and he went as far as to bluntly ask me if i was "getting any lovin" to which i replied i had a serious boyfriend and my private life was none of his business. Apparently that answer didn't suite him because he then patted my butt, but apolgized and said he was reaching for my arm. The man made me uncomfortable and i didn't go over there again till it was time to give him his bill, and that time he invited me back to his hotel to "cuddle or watch a movie, or something else, but whatever i wanted" and he said he would make it worth my while. I have hime his change and when he left he left a map to his hotle, the room number, and a phone number.
Since did the average waitress become a sex symbol? It really makes me think that society leads men to belive that this kind of behavior is ok, and it's not. Not everyone wants to be seen like that.

music videos and sex

so we have learned that girls in little clothing are used to see beer,fashion, and now music. Music videos are becoming more and more scandalous. There seems to be a near naked girl in everyone. Sometimes it is actually the singer herself and sometime it is just some hoe, as in the case with Snoop Dog's "Gin and Juice" video or Sor Mixalot
's "Baby Got Back". It seems like nothing sells anymore without being related to sex. For example Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera had first albums that portrayed this as wholesome American Girls, by there follow up albums there weren't looking the same. They made this decision, would their albums have sold the same if they hadn't gone in such a sexier direction. It is hard to tell and it seems that other people have continued to follow in their footsteps as sex symbols instead of the other way. Sex sells and people don't want to take a chance of their album not selling or their music video not being watched. Not only does sex sells but the way that scociety thinks now is what makes sex sell. Maybe people should start thinking for themselves and not so much following protocal and the world wouldn't reley so much on sex appeal.

beer = sex

So apparently sex is used to sell everything, not just designer shoes and clothing, but beer too. The thing that bothers me is that there seems to be more controversy surrounding beer ads than fashion adds. They all sell sex, not the products they were intended to sell. It seems like beer ads are yanked from the tv for being contrevesal or degrading while fashion ads aren't banned from magazines for the same thing. I want to know why these products can't sell themselves. Why do they have to have to use skantily clad woman to sell their products. I didn't realize how much sex sold beer until i got into this class. I seem to critque comercials in a whole new way now. I don't even remember some of these commercials but they are made for a male audience. I didn't realize how much they were made for the male audience until i was describing the commercial with the 3 girls pillow fighting to my boyfriend and he distinctively remember the commercials and all the details about it, but he couldn't tell me about the superbowl that was being played at the same time.

Let's Look at Porn

Porn is an everyday part of the american advertising world. it has slowly over timed come to be sush a part of adds that we don't even know what the adds are about anymore. Naked woman pleasuring themselve in pictiures is not advertising, it's soft core porn. Take for example the Marc Jacobs shoe add, there is a woman laying ont the bed with her rear end exposed and her legs over her head and she is looking striaght at the camera in a way that doesn't make me think of shows. She screams sex and shoes and if there wasn't a title on the bottom of the page that read Marc Jacob shoes, then i wouldn't even know what is ad was about and this could be the front of a porn movie or magazine. wOMAN are portrayed as sex abjects on the fornt of so many main stream magazines, such as 17, vogue, and elle; everyone sees these magazines and sees theese skinny half naked woman looking at them. What kind of modle those this set for children growing up? and when is the last time you saw the from of a magazine with a woman completely clothed on it? Adds need to go back to being more about what thet are sellung and less about the sex.

"all american Girls"

so we read the case profile last week and it showed clearly how people stereotyped the girls before they really did all the research. It shows that news can stereotype in spot news cases. Once the story broke away from spot news and it had been a few days, a new stereotype was setup. This shows that the media is wrong in their stereotyping and need to work on reporting in a more objective way to help save their own image. The paper changed what the girls were portrayed as after a few days and this seemed like they didn't do their research in the first place.