Comments on: Ads that Objectify Women

By: yes

yes — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 21:54:40 +0000

stories like this train women to believe that really its not a mans fault its advertising’s fault that men are objectifying you. they can’t help it with all those ads. when its more than likely that it is because they were not brought up well. I you want to place that much blame on ads I’d also suggest looking at the ones on your site because the current one for me is a women in a bikini offering to lower my mortgage, but I guess thats ok because you are making money. practice what you preach

By: Stephani

Stephani — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:43:11 +0000

I am not a feminist. I do notice a constant sexualization of women and girls.I’m not so sure that having eyes to see with makes me somehow insecure as the one comment suggested. A year or so ago there was a big deal made of the butt cracks of the male models in the Abercrombe Fitch ad resulting in the poster ads being forced down. At that very time a long running ad for Lubriderm with the same amount of butt crack of the woman showing and not on a poster but on tv and this was not removed.I was shocked by the commercial and double shocked when the poster story made headlines in the news.You don’t have to agree but I concider that a sexist double standard.And as I understood the story, it was men who started the whole deal off saying the poster wasw vulger. Maybe they were insecure and want men to all wear sweaters and suits.

By: Nicky

Nicky — Mon, 11 May 2009 04:06:03 +0000

What a load of bullcrap?

The guys who touch other girls in public places - did get it through advertisements. They got it through being super desperate to touch a female.

There were no advertisements in the 17 hundreds - did all men in the world respect women that time?

You could read this for an equally strong counter argument.

http://bitchsena.blogspot.com/2009/04/objectification-of-women.html

By: Selling (Smarter) Sex « Little Lambs Eat Ivy

Selling (Smarter) Sex « Little Lambs Eat Ivy — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:43:29 +0000

[...] to be in on the deal. There are so many sexist and degrading condom ads floating around (see here, here, and here for examples, but don’t say I didn’t warn you–they’re not [...]

By: DJ Nelson

DJ Nelson — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:40:59 +0000

I’ve already said that train= the subconscious. For further information please read this rather snotty clarification I wrote. It didn’t seem snotty at the time but since it’s already out there.

http://www.alldivamedia.com/blog/2007/09/02/say-what-you-want-its-still-objectification/

By: snyder

snyder — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:19:01 +0000

I agree it’s in bad taste, but the “training” remark is pretty insulting

By: DJ Nelson

DJ Nelson — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 17:40:47 +0000

Does that make it any less objectifying in either case?

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:56:23 +0000

Er, I’m quite sure that the top picture you displayed is infact a burger king advert that was doctored, but otherwise I support your point

Here it is….. http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/4933/burgerking19kq.jpg

By: aguy

aguy — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:52:30 +0000

Zund, “As a guy, myself - I think you need to be around normal people, rather than uneducated idiots like this. (Providing this actually happened)”.

As a guy myself, I think you are mssing the point. These aren’t always men women know doing this; most of the time it is strangers, in a public place.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:22:12 +0000

Check these out too:

http://sociologicalimages.blogspot.com/2008/03/products-shaped-like-female-bodies.html

http://sociologicalimages.blogspot.com/2008/03/this-is-called-bitchcruiser-you-can.html