Blog 6

The Ted Talk by Jean Kilbourne was on The Dangerous Ways Ads See Women. Throughout the last decade I have become accustomed to noticing how women are portrayed in advertisements. Often women and teenage girls are over sexualized in ads for different products when it is not necessary. Not only that, but men are sexualized as well, though in a different way than women. After watching this video, I have come to understand that manipulation of people plays a major role in product advertisement. For example, she shows a picture of a famous women in her late sixties for an anti-aging product and the picture was photoshopped to make her look almost ten years younger and made it seem like their product fixed the “fine lines and wrinkles” that begin to appear in women during that time. Below are examples of five ads that I picked that I believe support the claims made in this video.