In Kilbourne's article, “Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt” she uses explicit advertisements to show the affects it has on our culture . These advertisements cause our youth to believe they have to look a certain way and they will obtain certain qualities by buying these brands. Kilbourne points out how these advertisements have a negative effect on our society and why. The advertisement that exhibit the strongest explication in my opinion is a poster by F. Scott’s trying to advertise their nightclub
shown are an appearance of pornography. In the article “Two Ways a Women Can Get hurt,” Kilbourne advertisements convince society by showing people that most commercials are pornographic advertisement. Kilbourne wrote the article towards women notifying them of the dangerous behavior of advertisement. Most advertising show women being controlled by men. In ads, women are usually wearing something provocative encouraging sexual behaviors. Kilbourne informs people that commercials or ads make women look
expectations: to act and look a particular way. These expectations can be seen throughout media; television, magazines, advertisements, etc. Two articles in particular debate this subject and make very good points. Susan Bordo’s article, “The Empire of Images in Our World of Bodies”, focuses on the advertisements that have almost impossible standards set that women and teenage girls feel obligated to reach. Jean Kilbourne’s “Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt” discusses men and women as being sexualized
exploits: women are inferior to men. The article “Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt” by Jean Kilbourn addresses objectification and submission of women in
product as quickly and easily as possible. But who exactly is buying from inappropriate commercials? In award-winning documentary producer Jean Kilbourne’s essay “Two Ways a Women Can Get Hurt”: Advertising and Violence she states that sex in advertising “fetishizes products, imbues them with an erotic charge—which dooms us to disappointment since products can never fulfill our sexual desires or meet out emotional needs.” This means that being exposed to pornographic forms of advertising makes viewers