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What surprised us the most was the way ads started out promoting the female body to love and honour their bodies and not be considered as an object. This topic is relevant to us because every day in our lives wethers it's on our phones, the bus, or even on the news were being exposed to “beautiful” looking people. Despite the fact that we know that some of the pictures that we see are fake we still feel jealous and degrade ourselves for not looking like that. Reading the articles and, watching the video made us realize that not only in North America but many women are around the world are being exposed to ads that objectify women. The research we found most interesting was the Beijing Platform for Action. Knowing that there are laws and regulations out there to help women and young girls to dream big and be comfortable in the body is very comforting especially in today's society. What we will most likely remember from this research is that there is not only us but many other young women and teens that are exposed to this types of media. Despite the fact, the media shows beautiful and perfect women don't mean that you have to be perfect. Just as each country has its own traditions and culture each individual is beautiful in there own way.

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The Objectification of Women in Advertising.

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The Objectification of Women in Advertising.

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In ads, women are shown to have perfect skin without any blemishes, wrinkles or scars. Her waist is tiny, she has long smooth legs and large breasts and buttocks. The women's hair is always shown to be healthy looking and shiny. The women pictured in ads are not real. It is the result of makeup and days of photo retouching. Brands like Dove try to move away from the image of perfection and claim to be photoshop free however they still feature attractive women in campaigns. As learned in the course the term objectification means that women in advertising pave the way for pornography which degrades women due to its focus on hypersexualization. In the article, it mentions that in the 1960s ads served as a feminist manifestation for women to love and honour their bodies. Seeing ads now days puts a totally different meaning in the pictures.

Suggett, P. (2018). The Objectification of Women in

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Since the introduction of advertising many centuries ago, women have been objectified, and in some instances, insulted or degraded. In 2010, a five-minute video featuring Jean Kilbourne went viral, racking up over 2 million views; it covered the extremely negative effects of advertising on women and girls.

Despite the efforts of many women (and men), it's apparent that we're still seeing the same patterns of objectification and the mindless use of seminaked women in advertising campaigns.

In many respects, the problem has escalated. An image of a seminaked woman in the seventies and eighties isn't even close to images of seminaked women today. Today, with the proliferation of Photoshop and the prevalence of retouching, women are not just flawless, they are portrayed as anatomically impossible. This is harmful on many levels, to women and girls alike.

The Ideal Woman as Portrayed in Advertising

Advertising, marketing, and the fashion industry have created a new type of woman who does not exist in the real world. You probably know the "Barbie Doll" look, but let's look at some of her main features:

She has no wrinkles, blemishes, or scars, and her skin is perfect.

She has impossibly long, smooth, and shapely legs.

Her waist so small it's as though you could break her in two.

Her ample breasts and buttocks are gravity-defying miracles.

She has a head of silky, radiant hair that looks like CGI.

Her eyes are dazzlingly bright.

Her teeth are beyond white, perfectly straight, and appear unreal.

What Men and Women Are Taught to Desire

At a very early age, men are programmed to desire the Barbie Doll woman. This is the woman featured in ads for perfumes and lingerie. She is the centerfold in Playboy.

She is the standard to set your life by. Women, from the same early age, are told they must look like this woman. They should aim to have those long legs, that perfect skin, beautiful hair, and incredible body.

Here's the problem; that woman does not exist, anywhere. She is the product of hours in the makeup chair and days of photo retouching, even if she's a supermodel. Her waist is not that skinny because no woman with a 23" waist wears a D-cup bra without the aid of implants. Every woman has imperfections in her skin because every woman is human.

What Advertising Is Really Selling

Advertising's main function is to create a need so that a company can provide a product or service to meet that need. For example, men drink certain brands of beer because they associate them with advertising's impossibly perfect (and highly sexy) women. "If I drink that beer, I'll get that woman." On the other hand, women and girls buy certain clothes, foods, and makeup products in a vain attempt to resemble the beer-drinking girl on TV.

How This Play Out In the Real World

Men are taught (programmed) to view women as objects. It has led in part to the way men view women as objects at work. The extent of this surfaced in 2017/2018 with the birth of the #MeToo and TimesUp movements birthed by sexual harassment claims made against Hollywood's Harvey Weinstein when actress Ashley Judd gave her story to major news outlets.

Years earlier, Weinstein had threatened Judd if she didn't agree to a sexual act. With the spotlight on men's bad behavior in the workplace, other women came forward, and such high-profile figures as Charlie Rose and Matt Lauer were forced to resign after numerous women publicly charged sexual misconduct against them.

What the Early Feminists had to Say

When Our Bodies, Our Selves was published in the late 1960s, it served as a feminist manifesto for women to love and honor their bodies. Betty Friedan, who passed away in 2006, and Gloria Steinem-alive and active at 80-something as of March 2018-were founders of the feminist movement. Both had envisioned an egalitarian and enlightened world by the 21st century. That has not happened. However, if today's feminists (and such TimesUp founders as Oprah Winfrey and Shonda Rhimes) have their way, women will be less objectified moving forward.

What Advertisers Can Do

Several brands, including Dove and Aerie, have tried to move away from typical images of perfection. They claim to be "Photoshop-free," and celebrate real, diverse women. Of course, they still use very attractive women in their campaigns, because many people are superficial to a degree.

Thankfully, beer brands are moving away from seminaked models. The craft beer movement is on the rise, and they don't need Playboy bunnies to help them sell inventory-although, sadly, the majority of men will still be attracted to cliched sexy images.

If you work at an agency, try and steer the client away from the Photoshopped images of stereotyped Barbie Doll women. Veer away from the skinny size 2 models and champion the use of plus-size (or at least size 10) women in all ads-print and electronic.

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Advertising Sets Impossible Standards for Women

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This photo is a magazine cover showing the imperfections of women. In the images seen you can see women's stomach fat, their thighs, cellulite, saggy chest, and behinds. This puts an image in women's head on how bodies shouldn't look. This picture relates to our topic because it shows that the media will judge women based on the imperfections they have.

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This website is an amazing way of what body types are seen as perfect in 18 different countries. those pictures are a good representation of how different countries models are expected to look like and the how much they should weigh. In places like China, a woman who is slim is seen as beautiful, the ideal weight is around 102 pounds. In other places such as Spain, a woman who weighs around 153 pounds is seen as ideal and beautiful. In different areas, girls under the weight or over the weight that is ideal would feel self-conscious about the way they look. This website relates to this topic because it shows the body image that is envied in different areas around the world making women feel a pressure to look like that.

The Perfect Female Body In 18 Countries. (2018, February 14). Retrieved from http://www.rebelcircus.com/blog/perfect-female-body-18-countries/

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The prompt was simple. Fractl was contacted by Superdrug Online Doctors and asked to investigate perceptions of beauty around the world. Fractl then contracted 18 freelance designers and gave them all the same set of instructions. The prompt read as follows: "Photoshop her form. The idea is to Photoshop and retouch this woman to make her more attractive to the citizens of your country. We are looking to explore how perceptions of beauty change across the world. Multiple designers are involved. You can modify clothing, but her form must be visible. No nudity. All other changes, including those to her shape and form, are up to you." Click through the see what the perfect female body in 18 countries looks like.
Which country has the most attractive women, in your opinion? Let us know in the comments below!

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The ideal woman looks vastly different in Italy than she does in China. That's why Fractl and Superdrug conducted an experiment to see what the perfect female body in 18 countries would look like. Click through to see the results.

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This website explores the way the media have women feeling insecure about their looks so they feel the need to get plastic surgery just to fit the beauty standards the media causes. Some women would rather go under a knife to change their bodies than going to the gym and eating healthy. the way the media makes women look and how they point out a women's imperfections as ugly will make any women feel they need surgery to change. this website relates to this topic because it shows what the media does to a woman's head and how that will make women get plastic surgery.

Nuñez, A. (2013, September 24). What's Causing the Rise in Plastic Surgery? Retrieved from https://www.shape.com/blogs/shape-your-life/could-social-media-drive-you-have-plastic-surgery

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The constant presence of social media in our lives certainly has its upsides, but more downsides keep emerging, including lower personal growth, Pinterest stress, and, now, an increase of plastic surgery, according to a poll from the American Academy of Facial Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS).

The survey asked 753 AAFPRS board-certified facial plastic surgeons to describe trends they were seeing in reconstructive and cosmetic surgery. One finding stuck out: Surgeons are seeing a 31-percent increase in plastic surgery requests as a result of how people want to present themselves on social media accounts.

"We live in a very visual world, and have come to expect that we will be 'Googled' or 'Facebooked' even before actually meeting someone socially or professionally," Sam Rizk, M.D., an AAFPRS member and director of Manhattan Facial Plastic Surgery in New York, told Time. "I see a lot of men and women who are executives or high-profile so they are in the public eye. Their photos get taken all the time and they never know where they may end up. Between high-definition television, Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram, how you look in photos and video clips has definitely become a driver for all cosmetic procedures from Botox to neck lifts."

RELATED: Hello, gorgeous! Wow the social media world with your profile pic without having to undergo a single nip, tuck, or cut.

The survey noted that while breast augmentation remains the most popular cosmetic surgery option, surgeons are seeing an increase in procedures such as botox, upper-arm lifts, rhinoplasty, and facelifts.

It's not entirely surprising to hear that the advent of social media might affect how people feel about their looks. In October, SHAPE partnered with SheKnows.com to find out how readers felt about their body image and self-esteem. Forty-two percent reported that social media made them feel less confident about their looks.

"Social media sites center around photos," New York-based plastic surgeon Matthew Schulman, M.D., told SHAPE in an earlier post. "Everyone wants to see how their high school girlfriend or boyfriend looks now, and no one wants to be perceived as ugly or old."

Dr. Schulman also told SHAPE that he has seen a significant increase in plastic surgery requests from people who are worried about how they appear online, which is consistent with the AAFPRS survey.

Still, going under the knife for a good profile pic is a drastic step! What do you think? What would you do for a perfect profile pic? Let us know in the comments below or tweet us @Shape_Magazine.

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The constant presence of social media in our lives certainly has its upsides, but more downsides keep emerging, including lower personal growth, Pinterest stress, and, now, an increase of plastic surgery, according to a poll from the American Academy of Facial Plastics and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS).

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This article talks about stereotypes that perpetuate gender discrimination. Women in the media are shown to be thin and sexualizing. Women in the media talk less than men and have fewer options. Women are less likely to play a role as professional or as leaders. In a study, it shows that more than 100 countries around 46% of videos and ads that uphold gender stereotypes and only 6% shows gender equality. Men still occupy 73% of the top media. Over the years the cyberbullying has extended the harassment and stalking of women online. The article mentions about the Beijing Platform for Action which is a document that states that there should be an increase of women included in decision making and present women as leader and rike nides and, to abdomen stereotypes. In the course, we learned how women are treated as objects in certain cultures/areas. There is a higher rate of violence in women then there are men. These ads continue to motivate people to view women as objects rather than the person they are. In the article one of the quotes really stood out to us: “ the media shapes our world – but so do women, as powerful agents of change in all areas of society. It's time for media to reflect this reality (UN Women, ND).” What this quote is saying that the media plays a very big part of our society but also women. Women can help change the society overcome these stereotypes.

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UN Women | The Beijing Platform for Action Turns 20

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You could go to a film, switch on the TV, tune in to the radio, turn the pages of a magazine, or surf online. Regardless of your choice of media, you'd have a good chance of encountering stereotypes that perpetuate gender discrimination.

Women in all types of media tend to be thin and sexualized. They talk less than men. They have fewer opinions. And they are far less likely, in the entertainment industry, to play roles as leaders or professionals, or even as women who work for a living.

Research spanning more than 100 countries found that 46 per cent of news stories, in print and on radio and television, uphold gender stereotypes. Only 6 per cent highlight gender equality. Behind the scenes, men still occupy 73 per cent of top media management positions, according to another global study spanning 522 news media organizations. While women represent half of the world's population, less than one third of all speaking characters in film are female. Cyberviolence has extended the harassment and stalking of women and girls to the online world.

Twenty years ago, 189 UN Member States recognized the central role of media in shifting the gender stereotypes that influence how we think and act. They made women and media one of 12 critical areas of the Beijing Platform for Action, and called on media everywhere to make a far greater contribution to women's advancement.

They agreed that the number of women in the media must increase, including in decision-making. More should be done to present women as leaders and role models, and to abandon stereotypes. Encouraging women's training, adopting professional guidelines to reduce discrimination, and establishing media watch groups for monitoring were among measures to move forward. Women's involvement in information and communications technologies and media networks, including electronic networks, were also highlighted as a means of strengthening women's role in democratic processes.

There has been some progress since the Beijing Conference. The percentage of stories reported by women has edged up in most issue areas, and women are among the most active social media users. But even a cursory look at media content shows how far there is to go.

Women have an equal right to participate in public debate, including in the media, and offer insights and ideas that must be heard. Everyone deserves to live free from the burden of harmful gender stereotypes.

The media shapes our world-but so do women, as powerful agents of change in all areas of society. It is time for media to reflect this reality.

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This website talks about how the media can affect teens image of their bodies. What young girls see on the tv, online, in magazines and in ads will affect them, young girls can be affected by having eating disorders just to feel good about themselves. This website relates to this topic because social media has a huge impact on young girls what they see can damage what they think about themselves it is important to make body image a positive topic and have all young girls feel accepted no matter what size they are.

THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON TEENAGE GIRL´S AND YOUNG ADOLESCENT WOMEN´S BODY IMAGE. (2015, July 27). Retrieved from http://www.brandba.se/blog/2015/6/11/the-impact-of-social-media-on-teenage-girls-and-young-adolescent-womens-body-image

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WHAT IS BODY IMAGE?

In order to understand how social media affects someone's body image we have to explain what the later actually is. Plato once said that ˝we are bound to our bodies like an oyster is to its shell˝, insightfully explaining how strong affect the physical appearance has on our mental state. Cash (2004) defines ˝body image as body images. It encompasses one's body-related self-perceptions and self-attitudes, including thoughts, beliefs, feelings and behaviours.˝

At Brown University (2015) they describe it more generally as:

˝How we perceive our bodies visually?

How we feel about our physical appearance (how we think and talk to ourselves about our bodies?

Our sensitivity of how other people view our bodies.

Our sensitivity of our bodies in physical space.

Our level of connectedness to our bodies.˝

Body image is not innate to us, on contrary, we develop it through the influence from society. As children we start learning and absorbing the information about how other perceive us, about ourselves. At that point our parents and caregivers play a significant role as they act as a mirror, manifesting back to us an image of who we are. According to reflection we develop our own body image, which can be clear or blurry (The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, 2013). Continuing to teenage years and later on to early adulthood, we are bombarded with opinions on our external image by not just close family but also from distant personas and social tools, such as media personalities and social media. At the same time hormonal changes and greater awareness of surroundings make us more acceptable for comments that may hurt or lift us up. The mixture of all the factors sums up in either positive or negative body image (Weinshenker, 2002).

POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE BODY IMAGE

Our body image affects our psychological vulnerability and strength, vibrancy and despair, competence and incompetence (Youngs, 1992). People with positive body image accept their bodies. They are optimistic and acknowledge who they really are as a person. Furthermore, they accept their imperfections and weaknesses, and recognize and own assets and potentials. Their achievements are satisfying and leading them onwards on their happy life path.

On the other hand, people with negative body image don't accept themselves. Their own body is their worst enemy. Every time they look into the mirror, they see a different person. Dissatisfaction, sadness, shame and awkwardness are constantly present in their everyday life. Negative body image can in long-term lead to distorted perception of size and shape, which in many cases results in eating disorders, depression or anxiety.

Recent researches show that teenage girls and young women are more and more dissatisfacted with how they look. In 2004 BBC News posted an article ˝Teenage girls 'hate their bodies' ˝ about body dissatisfaction among teenage girls, stating that six out of 10 girls would be happier if they lost weight, among 2000 girls conducted in survey. One out of five is so unhappy with her body that she suffers from anorexia or bulimia. Most concerning is the fact that only 19% of questioned girls were actually overweight, but 67% of them wanted to lose weight. In 2013 The Guardian released similar article, relaying on the results of survey showing that year after year dissatisfaction with their own bodies among teenage girls and young adolescent women is steadily rising. Furthermore, seven out of 10 of surveyed persons aged 11 to 21 said that they feel anxious and insecure about the way they look because of perfect celebrity pictures on the social media, according to Meikle (2013).

The above stated numbers are very concerning, as they are showing that young girls and women are more and more concerned about their bodies and therefore have lower self-esteem. Lower self-esteem consequently leads to isolation from peers and in the depression. Sad facts, when they are in years that are meant to be dedicated to having fun, exploring the world and enjoying every given minute as time can never be turned backwards.

SOCIAL MEDIA AND FASHION INDUSTRY - DEADLY COMBINATION
"You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful."
(Amy Bloom)
Social media is surrounding us everywhere today. On computers, tablets, phones, we are continuously checking new information as soon as time allows us to do so. But how social media actually affects us psychologically?

Festinger, with the theory of social comparison explains that we evaluate important characteristics of ourselves against others (Festinger, 1954, McNeill & Firman, 2014). Blond (2008) agrees that this theory implements a link between images of models and famous personalities in the media and body dissatisfaction in teenage girls and young adult women. We all consciously or unconsciously compare ourselves to people, for whom we believe are very successful and want to be better than they are. Marketers are very well aware of the psychological effect of photos and videos on customers, especially ones in fashion industry. One of them is also a company called Victoria's Secret.

VICTORIA'S SECRET - FASHION SHOW

American largest retailer of lingerie Victoria's Secret is worldwide known by its special Fashion show on which models, so called Victoria's Angels. This special event, which takes place every December and it also includes music concert from one of the year's biggest music stars, has become an obsession among teenage girls and young women. The show is very popular among them, as on the evening when the show takes place, they organize parties and watch it together. They use social media to Tweet, post photos on Instagram and Facebook. They say it ˝makes them feel girly and love to get in the spirit of the show˝ (Wilson, 2013). Some of the worrying posts on Twitter were:
"Time to starve because VS Fashion Show is the 10th!" "Victoria secret fashion show is coming... Time to regret everything we ate during thanks giving!" "Like I don't even feel upset that I don't look like a VS Model, I feel suicidal." (Wilson, 2013)

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This image is of a girl holding a Vogue magazine and saying how she can't compete with the models, we feel this image has such a powerful message of how men will see women in a magazine and envy women who look like that but in reality, no girl can compete with photoshop. young girls see how the media portrays body image and this influences eating disorders or low self-esteem in young women. This relates to our topic because it is a picture of what young girls see in the media and how it affects them mentally.

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The video starts with what is seen when you search objectification of women online. It looks at all the different ads that objectify women as a selling tool. This video is an amazing powerful representation of what these ads mean to women when looking at them. Watching this video, you see video games, ads, YouTube, Instagram posts, magazines and more that all use this tool and how women are not objects. This video is a great representation of what women think of these ads and shows awareness about how the media makes women look like. This video is raising awareness on how women need to stand up and not object to the media.

WomenNotObjects. (2016, January 11). We Are #WomenNotObjects.

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This video shows the beauty trends that women have faced in North America. The thigh gaps. What is a thigh gap? When a woman stands up straight there should be a gap between the legs. Girls don’t want their thighs to touch. Another, most popular and well know tend in the media regarding was the Kylie Jenner lip challenge where girls would use plastic bottles or shot glass to suck the air out of the glass to create plump and fuller looking lip. Despite the fact that Doctors warn the cause of the number of issues involved girls still continue to do this act. In the video, the lady mentions, “we raise little girls to view their bodies as projects to constantly be improved.” In the video, they mention a girl who didn’t know that she was rapped only when she found out naked pictures of her online. One girl states, “social standard that’s put up in the media, and then women try to meet it and they get criticized. There is no winning.” As learned in the course ads feature women to look ridiculous and ‘unreal’ by showing perfect bodies, faces, etc. It impacts on how women feel about themselves and their self-worth and self-image. Since we are both girls we are used to seeing women being objectified in ads but one thing that surprised us about this video is the number of teens spending money on cosmetic surgery. We thought this would be more common in young adults. Girls shouldn’t be growing up thinking that looks are more important rather than how they feel or who they are and what they can do.

WomenNotObjects. (2016, March 7). #IStandUp Against the Harm Caused by Objectification of

Women in Advertising. [Video file]. Retrieved from

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Show your support by posting your own #IStandUp video. Film yourself standing up with the caption: #IStandUp against the objectification of women and the harm it causes. #WomenNotObjects Then tag your friends to stand up too. http://womennotobjects.com/ Twitter: @Not_Objects Instagram: @WomenNotObjects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/womennotobjects

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In this video, a woman sent an unaltered photo of herself to photoshop experts around the world. She asked them to make her look beautiful. Most of the countries showed her having whiter skin, fuller lips, and blue or green coloured eyes. Places like Australia prefer to have tanned skin because their lives revolve around the beach. In a survey 90% of women in Germany would spend would cancel their first date then go without makeup. In the UK women spend at least $15000 on makeup in their lifetime. The last picture on the video was the girl faced photoshopped from the USA. Her face was smaller, her neck was slimmer and she has a “contoured” look. As discussed in the course ideology is based on the society’s expectations and how women should look and behave. This ideology is impossible to achieve without photoshop and, in reality only a very small percentage of women actually look like this. What surprised us the most is that despite the fact only 60% of people say inner beauty counts the most places like Germany and British women spend a lot of time putting on their makeup.

As/Is. (2014, June 28). Beauty Standards Around the World. [Video

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This is a Tom Ford for men’s clothing, my question is why do they have a naked woman being touched by a man as their selling objective. In our option, it is disgusting and hurtful that for a men’s clothing ad they need to have a naked woman included in the picture. This is not the first-time Tom Ford used women as objects in his ads, we found over ten ads that use a women body as an object and objectifies women. This picture is a great example of how the media makes women look and what young girls see.

Sexual Objectification of Women in the Media. (2013, February 27).

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This video shows Islamic women and its community is being affected by the Western media. Elizabeth was an aspiring model who promoted beachwear. She talks about her experience in one of the shots that she was doing. Elizabeth mentions that the people who were in charge of the photoshoot told her that she gained a little bit of weight so they didn’t want to use her in the next shot. Elizabeth mentions that she felt not only ashamed but she told felt like an object rather than a human. Pricilla another woman who is Muslim mentions in the video is that when she was working men would look at her in strange ways. She felt uncomfortable and started to cover herself up. Prof. Rasha Al-Disuqi says that Islam has suffered from media all over the world especially the women. Media and books give an image if Islam. When a “hot issue” media intensify against the Muslim people. After the 9/11 endless shots of women in burkas showed that Islam women are suffering and how the other countries should rescue them. Any signs of head covering were seen as Islamic oppression.  Elizabeth mentions in the video ‘sex sells.’ As discussed in the course the advertising industry uses women’s bodies and other various parts of it to sell certain products (such as beer, clothing, etc.). When we were watching the video some of the facts that fascinated us is that there are both good Muslim and bad Muslim but, in the media, you never see any good Muslim shown on the media. Some of the facts that were mentioned in the video that also surprised us were that on an average we are exposed to 2000 ads per day. When you pass by stores the mannequins that a person usually sees is thin, tall, young, long-legged. Ads like these reduce women to objects and their sexual content resulting in pornography.

IRCR Media. (2016, November 13). Media and the Objectification of

Women.[Video file]. Retrieved from

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsGqwLiR3_U