Tuesday, February 3, 2009

According to Killboune, it is dangerous to depict women and men as sex objects because it promotes the objectification of both sexes. It is much easier and practically guilt-free to do something violent to an object, like they’re portraying people as in these ads, than a human being equal to yourself. They’re saying that the other sex is an object, therefore you can abuse them and it will be fine. This is awful because people take this seriously, and it promotes rape and violence toward people, especially women.
The objectification of women is more troubling because it is more apparent and used much more than the objectification of men. Also, it is much more dangerous for a women to have sex because of the consequences such as pregnancy. I believe if there was more objectification of men, then it would be equally troubling.

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