How do you women feel when you see all those ads?

Question

think about it; all the advertising in magazines, televison etc, about women...do they really depict us as we are? are we all size 0 blondes with a C cup? and for you blonde women, how do you feel about constantly being shown as a bimbo?

think about this: in Fiji,decades ago there was no TV. in women, strength was valued and thought attractive. rapid weight loss and skinniness was thought abnormal. then, 3 years after TV entered Fiji, 25% og the teenage grils presented the symptoms of anorexia and most of the female population had a significant weight loss. i know those pretty skinny women are on those ads to sell stuff, but in the long run it's damaging.

oh and i have other food for thought: ever seen a reggaeton video? if you haven't get into youtube and search for some videos, just type daddy yankee or wisin and yandel. there's objectification of women. sexual one. =P answer away

do not get me wrong here. some ppl have said things that i am not insinuating. we are women. i don't have anything against models, it's their job. they get paid for it. so, fine. the issue here is the representation we get on the media. and just to set the record straight, i have an average body, i like my looks, truthfully i consider myself pretty. so don't get the idea that i am resentful of models.

Answer 1

You are absolutely right. I think about this quite often. Everyone is always telling you how you're supposed to look, dress, feel, act, etc. No one really takes us as individuals with our own minds and our own ideals and perspectives.
We are our own people, and we live our lives the way we believe to be right. Not everyone is a gorgeous, 6' 100lb. model with a perfect tan, just right curves, perfectly plucked eyebrows (by the way, if any guys are reading this...that really HURTS), and beautiful blonde hair and blue eyes. However, that is the way the world views as acceptable. Everyone else is simply tossed aside, or they're told all the ways they think they should change. It makes me sick, with all the reality shows that tell you you have to change everything about yourself, every other commercial telling you you need to lose 75-100 lbs., etc. etc. etc. It never seems to end.
Then for the gorgeous, and brilliant, women out there...they're pretty much screwed. Everyone treats them like they're dumb. No one believes that a woman who is beautiful can be smart...or that a woman who is smart is beautiful. It doesn't make sense.

Answer 2

What gets me is that sizes have really changed since I was a young girl, I'm now in my 50's. There were no 0's, if somebody was that small they bought their clothes from the childrens department. I am blonde and guess I have always been the dumb blonde for so long it doesn't bother me. I grew up very self conscious because I was considered very skinny, everywhere I went, it was a negative thing, skinny was definitely not a compliment then. Now people would kill to be the size I was.
Of course I'm not that size anymore. LOL And to think I used to hate it, I wanted to gain weight because that was what was in.

Answer 3

I totally agree with you... However, I do wonder if it is that we speak so much about the skinny models because it makes most of us feel bad. I won't lie about it, I am obese, and the thing is that more people die from obesity and its complications than from anorexia. Truth remains that more Americans or people in the industrialized world are obese than anorexic.

DO NOT get me wrong, I am not saying that it's not unfortunate when a young girl eats paper in order to fill herself up so as to not eat food food, but I just wonder if it is that we are keeping the wrong thing in focus. I mean after all, to h ell with what Versace and Yves St Laurent or whoever has to say about what the perfect body image is.... Go to a doctor, find out your BMI and how this relates to what is safe, and work with that.

Answer 4

It is nice to see all these people but it's even better to see natural-looking women who are not overly air-brushed. It's ridiculous when I see those women in hip hop videos, I just feel embarrassed for those hip hop artists.

I believe even before tv and ads, looks were always important and now with those people just want to follow a certain type of beauty but there is no such thing as one definition of beauty. I would rather watch a healthy looking woman like Scarlett Johansson on tv than nicole ritchie because it's too painful.

Answer 5

Your Fiji data is not accurate. Fijian men, like most other males in the world, prefer the usual hip to waist ratio. The actual weight is always continuously distributed everywhere. I suggest you look at studies of Fijian and Samoan women in the USA.

Answer 6

it all depends on how u look at it...some ppl look at it as a form of art! seems like u look at it in a negetive way! i have red hair and heavy set a little and i feel u have to look inside the book to know what it is all about!just because u r size 0 and have a c cup doesnt make u a bimbo,there r women out there that r very respectable in the community that r built that way...dont sweep someone elses porch till u swept ur own!

Answer 7

I don't complain about seeing advertisements for fitness centres when they show a more physically attractive man than myself (I am neither obese, nor a twig. I'm average, and glad to be so.), so I continue to fail to see how people posing to sell someones product is objectification.

They would not be doing it if the women reading/watching did not lose self control and run off to buy what they are selling. Look at yourselves before you blame society for making your life hard.

Answer 8

Ads seldome decipt reality ^.^. I dont know about fiji, but anorexia is not the problem I see here. More like obesity (europe too fat is fat your heart cares little if you are 20lbs or 50 lbs overweight).
Those ads showing thin people or girls seeing fat people and their fear to grow up obese themselfs can bothe drive a girl to anorexia.
Companies will do anything that is legal and works to sell, there is little you can do about it boycotts are of little impact to an intercontinental corp and of short durance usually.

Answer 9

Surely we can be credited with a bit more common sense. Most of us just "switch off" when those ads are on, or else we don't watch commercial T.V.

Those ads are produced by men with the usual lack of understanding that their own sexual gratification is not so highly prized by women.

Answer 10

It doesn't bother me so much for myself. I just roll my eyes and tune it out. I have self-confidence tho, alot of women don't. I don't like how it makes my 18 yr old daughter feel tho. She is a tall thin, hazel eyed blonde, and still feels inadequate. I do think advertisers should find models and actresses who actually NEED their products for the ads tho.