Advertising

Killbourne talked about issues within advertising and how women are portrayed. In this ad that i have posted, you cant really tell what the are trying to sell. If the Victoria Secret logo was not shown, you would have never known that this as was trying to sell underwear. Women that are shown in ads are supposed to look like they are a flawless. In this ad the girl has absolutely nothing wrong with her. She is a Victoria Secret Angel. Angels are beautiful, stunning and flawless. This is what young girls look at and try to be. I've heard many people that i know say that they want to be skinnier, prettier etc. Even the body language of this girl shows her being silent or meant to be quiet.

assignment #2

This past week, we learned about pamela anderson and marilyn monroe and how they are major sex symbols. I think these two sex symbols do effect our society because people strive to be like them, they think thats how people today should look and act. It impacts how kids feel about themselves growing up and effects how they think they should act in society. We also learned about porn and how its different today then it was in the past. Kids have very easy access to porn now when before kids had to wait to figure things out. I think having easy access to porn makes kids think that they should start having sex earlier then they should be. magazines, tv and advertising use sexual imagery a lot because they think it attracts more people to the item or the tv show. Sexual imagery is used in pretty much everything these days and i think it is an effective way to sell a product because it does bring more people to look at the product and potentially buy it.

happiness.

There are two types of happiness, synthetic and natural. Some people believe that synthetic happiness isnt as good as natural happiness, but it is. Dan Gilbert said, "Natural happiness is what we get when we get what we wanted, and synthetic happiness is what we make when we don't get what we wanted. And in our society, we have a strong belief that synthetic happiness is of an inferior kind." Synthetic happiness is every bit as real as the kind of happiness that you stumble upon when you get exactly what you were aiming for. I think popular culture plays a huge role in synthetic happiness because even if you dont get what you were want, you find a way to be happy with what you already have. Example being losing your job but getting hired at a new place which you think is even better then your last job.