Feminist Attempts
Objectification of Women in Advertising
From 1978,
to 2011,
the objectification of women in advertising continues. The 1978 ad is a prime example of how [naked] women are adding haphazardly in ads to sell products that have little to do with women or nudity. Patriarchy endorses the use of women’s bodies as objects to sell just about anything. In the 2011 ad, the woman’s face is cut off (she is not a subject after all but an object) and her breasts have been replaced with huge lotto balls. Would we ever see an ad where men’s balls are replaced with objects in order to sell?
Check out this shocking compilation of (mostly international) ads that endorse sexual harassment and violence against women.
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about 2 months ago - 1 comment
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about 9 months ago - 8 comments
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about 9 months ago - No comments
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about 11 months ago - 4 comments
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about 11 months ago - 2 comments
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about 11 months ago - No comments
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about 11 months ago - 3 comments
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about 1 year ago - No comments
Odd Advertising for Bic in Toronto
about 1 year ago - 6 comments
Isn’t it weird that the illustration of the woman is used in a serious manner to advertise for the Bic shavers? “For legs that beckon?” I thought we were over these stereotypical depictions of women, Canada? Photo taken on the subway in Toronto and posted via my new iPhone app!
about 10 months ago
It’s amazing how many advertising companies / marketing ppl naturally resort to using women in ads like that. I’d like to say it’s ‘unfortunate’ that it has become their natural reaction, but the word is too forgiving. I’m sure you are familiar with Jean Kilbroune, right?
about 10 months ago
That’s so sad, and what is even sadder is that some women actually look up to these ads and feel the need to be seen in that way to fit in.
Great work by the way. All the best
Randa
about 10 months ago
Why don’t you start a campaign against women who use their bodies to get what they want ? haifa for instance ? This way you would eradicate any rhetoric depicting women as born “whores”
about 7 months ago