If I flipped a magazine open and the page showed a girl covered in duck tape and a brand name under it I wouldn’t be surprised at all. In fact I wouldn’t even think oh that’s strange. These pictures are all around us and we’ve all just gotten use to them. When we were little and saw images like this they probably didn’t make sense, we just learned to accept them and not think about them. Seeing these pictures in class was such a wake up call. Women all more America is advertising clothing and shoes by being tortured and many people don’t find it out of the ordinary.
This will really help me in the long run to talk to my future children and let them know it’s not ok. Children can be extremely affected by what they see, and if I didn’t talk to them about it they would think these pictures are perfectly normal. Just in the last few decades the pictures have changed from spanking women to keeping in a birdcage or beating them, what is to come in the next decades?
Knowing this will also help me professionally since I am a textile major. I would never want my clothes advertised in a way that is demeaning to women. I can’t believe other companies do and still get lots of sales. One would think that women by clothes to feel good about them selves and if the stores advertise abusive I don’t think that going to make them feel any better.
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