This presentation by NOW Foundation's Love Your Body Campaign illustrates and describes how advertisers and the media enforce unrealistic beauty standards, sexual ideals and gender stereotypes that girls and women are expected to follow. What is the impact of these images on the health and well-being of women and girls, and what can YOU do?
I find the Tom Ford ad above particularly disturbing. It's an obvious attempt to make the model appear to be an inflatable sex doll. What woman aspires to be one of those?
Monday, October 22, 2007
The ABCs and Ds of Commercial Images of Women
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