Perfect opportunity to share one of my favorite blog memes:
http://thehairpin.com/2011/11/women-struggling-to-drink-water
Seriously though, it doesn't seem that controversial to say that
mainstream advertising heavily skews to female nudity. Next time you
pass a magazine stand, count the number of covers with female nudity and
male nudity. I'll bet you a wiki-beer it's greater than 2 to 1. Judging
by the last time I was in Paris, I would guess 10 to 1.
Ryan Kaldari
On 5/2/12 2:28 PM, Thomas Morton wrote:
On 2 May 2012 22:22, Pete Forsyth
<peteforsyth(a)gmail.com
<mailto:peteforsyth@gmail.com>> wrote:
On May 2, 2012, at 2:20 PM, Thomas Morton wrote:
I've always found advertising to be highly
sexualised, but
refreshingly free of sexism.
I tend to agree with Heather...this strains credibility. It's hard
to know whether to take this statement seriously.
Seriously? I mean, I don't want to derail this discussion further, but
as someone who responds fairly equally to nudey boys and girls both
are very visibly in use in advertising.
Although; Alison raises a point about stereotypes that I didn't really
think about :) as the discussion was about the relative numbers of
nudey genders... in terms of playing on /stereotypes/, sure, it can be
sexist to men and women.
Tom
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