Readings

When going through the readings, there was some interesting points that each one of the authors of the articels or stories that they wrote. Now something that stuck out in my mind on image, which was on pages198-205, Craig Frazier, makes a wonderful point. His poster "America, Open for Business" has a really good purpose. The purpose of the poster was to prove a point about America after September 11th 2001. He was trying to create a sense of community, meaning that we have to move on no matter what the circumstances are. I admit, when I first saw the poster, without reading, I would have thought that it meant that America likes to shop, Now I know what the true meaning of it is.

Now on pages 210-223, Michael F. Jacobson, and Laurie Anne Mazur, wrote an article titled The Iron Maiden: How Advertising portrays women. This article basically talks about how images in magazines pursue people mostly women to be something that they can't possibly be. Now, if the truth was known, the average woman might be in size 8 to 12 jeans. Not, the size of, 0, 1, 2, and 3, as is depicted in the media. Typically, women that are that small, are lucky, but the models that are skinny, are misleading these women making them think that they are ugly. When, in fact, most of the women are average size. That is why there is an increased rate of eating disorders in the United States. People need to realize that "beauty is only skin deep", make-up, clothing, and any other accesory out there doesn't make them as pretty as they think.

Also, reading the Gaze-Gender Roles in Advertising, the topic after the Iron Maiden, we are asked to examine the collection of images that are provied on the pages that follow. By looking at these images, of the different people in these pictures. Basically this article, was telling us how to look deep in the images and pay close attention, to what they are wearing, or what action they are performing.