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Sexism; a justice issue that goes unrecognized due to how accustomed society has become to it. The article, Breast Cancer Awareness Campaigns Sexist, Objectify Women by Elizabeth Carlson, explores the fact that our culture has morphed into a community that sees the female anatomy as an object of pleasure. Therefore sexism is an issue that must be resolved.
Within the article Carlson talks about the issue that campaign ads that are promoting breast cancer awareness have slogans that have a double meaning. “A large majority of the merchandise I come across says something like ‘I Heart Boobies’, ‘Save the Boobies’ or ‘Save Second Base” states Carlson. She goes on to say that they focus of the campaign ads are the cosmetic and sex appeal of a
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woman’s body, rather than the life at risk. She states that breast should not be seen as objects of pleasure when the threat of cancer is the topic of discussion Carlson explains how there are no campaign ads that use slang term for other types of cancer. For example, the public does not see ads saying “Save the Air Sacks” [for lung cancer] nor do they see ads like “Save the Poop Tubes” [for colon cancer]. Overall campaign ads have the wrong concept when trying to bring awareness to breast cancer. At the present time no justice has been used to resolve this issue. These types of campaign ads are still being created. On the 25th of March, Coca-Cola launched a breast cancer awareness ad. It was called the Hold a Coke With Your Boobs Challenge. This challenge angered women everywhere, whether they were survivors, have breast cancer, lost someone dear to breast cancer or just found it the ad distasteful. Seeing that these ads are being frowned upon till this day, a justice need to happen. We cannot keep going through time with ads like this around for the younger generations and the ones yet to come. This will teach those generations that is acceptable to support the persevering of a female’s body part for superficial reasons. If the Catholic Church could resolve this issue, they would probably just prohibit the production of the merchandise with such slogans on them. The reason why this might be a solution for this issue is because it is the most logical. This solution is not violent, and it bring the derogatoriness to a halt. As a result it will bring a positive way to bring awareness to breast cancer. It will also aid women being seen for more than an object of pleasure. In my opinion the most just solution would be to keep the one slogan that says “I Heart Boobies”.
I know it kind of contradicts the article, but I’m basing my opinion off of the society we live in today. It is sad to say but, we live in a nation that the younger the generations are more ignorant compared to the older ones. I’m not say all of the younger generation are ignorant, I’m saying that if someone were to survey one hundred people within each generation, it is most likely that the younger one will say that they have purchased merchandise that contain those racy slogans. This is because majority of the younger generation will not see how a slogan can be as offensive as it's said to be. I believe by keeping just that one slogan out of all of the rest will keep the younger generation satisfied. However, my object is not to keep people satisfied; it is to keep more than one generation interested in supporting breast cancer. That is why I suggest we only keep the one since it is the least offensive of the three. It doesn’t say “Save the Boobies” when it should be saying “Save the Woman not the Boobs”, or, in my opinion the worst of all,”Save Second Base” when it should even be saying something that is based off of
pleasure. In essence, sexism is an issue that must be resolved; not just in breast cancer campaign ads but everywhere where women are degraded into an object of pleasure. In order to raise proper awareness of breast cancer, we need campaigns that value a woman’s life more than her boobs. “Breast cancer is still cancer. Don’t forget it” says Carlson.
Ulrich had a well explanation for her slogan on "well-behaved women." She supports her slogan by bringing up certain women stereotypes that have been going on throughout history. She uses these stereotypes to explain how certain people view on women.
Men and women both drive cars, it’s a simple necessity to be able go to work for most people, however, from the commercials on television, one would assume that men are the primary purchasers of cars. In Steve Craig’s essay, Men’s Men and Women’s Women, he analyzes four commercials to illustrate how advertisers strategically targets the viewers. Craig argues that advertisers will grasp the attention of the viewer by the gender ideals that both men and women have of each other. Not only do advertisers pick a target audience demographic, but they also will target the audience at specific time to air their commercials. By analyzing an Audi and Bud Light commercial, one can see that Craig arguments are true to an extent but it appears that commercials have gone from an idealized world to a more realistic and relatable stance. for are still [true, however it seems that commercials may have altered to appear more realistic.] [relevant to an extent. This is to say, it appears that advertisers may have altered their commercial tactics. ]
It amazes me how a few decades ago can seem like a whole different world. A course of time can impact our lives more than we know it. In the article, A Day Without Feminism by Jennifer Boumgoidnei and Amy Richntds, both of these authors created this piece to inform their audience that although women have gained more rights over time, there was still more progress to be made. These authors gave many examples of how life for women had been, the obstacles they had to overcome, and the laws women had to break for equality.
Women’s rights pioneer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, in her speech, The Destructive Male, expresses her feelings about Women's suffrage in 1868, and brought to light the misconception that women are not equal to man and imply that men bring more destruction than restoration.
“Women Rights” Hillary Rodham Clinton is a well-recognized woman in the United States. Her great contribution as secretary of State impact people’s lives. One of many remarkable speeches Hillary gave was the “The women rights speech”, in the 4th World Conference on Women Plenary Session where she uses strong words and emotions to appeal the audience. Even though the speech talks about women rights, she wants everyone, including men and children to listen and take action. Her use of ethos, logos and pathos throughout the speech made the audience believe in her words.
Lerner, Barron H. The Breast Cancer Wars: Hope, Fear, and the Pursuit of a Cure in Twentieth-century America. New York: Oxford UP, 2001.
Sexism is the ideology that maintains that one sex is inherently inferior to the other. Sexism or discrimination based on gender has been a social issue for many years; it is the ideology that one sex is superior or inferior to the other. Sexism does not only affect females, but also males. Men are very often victimized by social stereotypes and norms based on gender expectations. Sexism has appears in almost all social institutions including family, the media, religion, sports, the military, politics, and the government. However, although both genders are affected, men have benefited from sexism the most (Thompson 300-301.)
When creating a comparative rhetorical analysis of two different feminist essays, we must first define the term “feminism”. According to Merriam-Webster.com, feminism is “the belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities”. Feminism is a also a long term social movement, one that’s been in the works since the early 1900’s. However, as any challenger to the norm might receive, the words ‘feminism’ and ‘feminist’ have gotten a bad reputation. Throughout the years, popular opinion has agreed that if you’re a feminist, you hate men, and don’t shave. It’s a very close-minded belief, and both Lindy West and Roxane Gay agree. Both authors of the essays I am comparing today, West and Gay try and convey their beliefs that feminism isn’t what you think it is. However, they do it in very different ways. Who conveyed their beliefs of feminism better and the superior argument? That is what I am going to display today.
The women in the 2006 advertisement are wearing what seems to be a one piece bathing suit that exposes a lot of the their breast area which this appeals more to men because of the sexual display of their assets. The females are all different races which widens the pool of men they can target. On the females one piece Budweiser is printed across either their hip, waist, low back or rear end. The significance of the placing of the letters is that is draws you in can you can evaluate how curvy the Latina woman is compared to white girl is and the black woman is showing her rear end which infers to the men targeted that she has the biggest rear end of them all. The 2006 advertisement appeals to all men because of the different races of the females and different body types. The women eyes in the 2006 advetisement are very sexualized because they seem to be looking at the consumer as if they want or are attracted to him and it comes down to whether the men targets purchases Budweiser or not. If the consumer purchases Budweiser than he could have all this going for him and what man today wouldn’t take apart in
The two authors of anti-woman rhetoric who were most often targeted were Fernando de Rojas and Luis de Lucena. However, is important to note that the defenses did not directly respond as often to Alfonso Martínez de Toledo who also wrote a defamation of women titled Arcipreste de Talavera o Corbacho (1438). Martinez de Toledo stresses spiritual salvation in his denigration of women and uses Christian doctrine to justify his stance. This contrast in reactions to the various defamations reinforces the idea that the writers who used Christian doctrine to defame or defend women were favored. Therefore, it is no surprise that defenders of women established their moral and noble character through their advocating in favor of women through Christian
In discussions of women’s rights, one controversial issue has been women in positions of leadership. On the one hand, Goldberg argues that women should be in more positions of power. On the other hand, Pynchon opposes women in power. Others even believe that women can’t lead. My own view is that more women should be placed into positions of power.
...ut so are their male counterparts. Husbands are affected, sons are affected, and friends are affected. The idea of Sexism is not enforced by the opposite sex, men, but is cultured by those who accept and abide by society’s expectations of a woman’s reality. As Kathleen Hanna once said, “While sexism hurts women most intimately, it also damages men severely.” Every human has their own mind, their own decisions; if we let other people command us and make choices for us, we lose our sense of individuality and uniqueness. Sexism is a choice, a way of thinking that we can choose to accept, or deny. It affects the self and the community as a whole, and should not exist. As we can accept that the world is filled with tribulations such as sexism, it is not a concept that cannot go extinct, rather, should be used as a counter example of how we should behave in society.
As long as humans have been inhabiting Earth, they have divided themselves into a variety of groups. Groups such as race, religious beliefs, culture, sexuality, and even gender. For centuries, men and women have been treated differently and unequally due to the sex they were born into. Sexism is a prejudice or discrimination on the basis of gender and it is evident in almost all cultures around the world. Currently, the 2016 presidential candidates are both male and female and in the past, since our first president, George Washington, a male, this country has never had a female president.
Introduction: According to Watson the issue is gender inequality. She uses ethos when she mentions many of her stories along the years. For example, at the age eight she was confused for being called bossy all because she wanted to direct the plays they were going to perform for their parents. At the age of fourteen she started to be sexualized by certain elements of social media. By the age of fifteen her girlfriends started to drop out of sports because they did not want to appear muscly. Finally, at the age of eighteen her male friends were unable to express their feelings. In this speech she is proposing putting an end to gender inequality as the solution.
I decided to take the Ambivalent Sexism quiz over the Native IQ quiz. I decided to take this quiz because the title of the quiz was eye catching and because I thought that I lacked knowledge to take the Native IQ quiz. Before the Ambivalent Sexism quiz I read the introduction and the first quote mentioned had me questioning what was being said. I was questioning it because I personally believe that a man is capable of living without a woman, but at the same time there are in fact woman that it can be hard to be with. I believe that men can live without women because men are perfectly capable of doing what a woman can do, like ironing clothes or cooking. I also believe that it can be hard to live with a woman because I have read stories online