Jean Kilbourne
Jean Kilbourne is the producer of the film “Killing Us Softly” made in 2010. Through this documentary, Kilbourne argues some important facts of the parlous impact social media has become towards society. One of her mainly points in her speech is how media is mostly unconscious to an individual, though it can have a grand impact in his daily life. Kilbourne also compares the different images media has put over man and woman; men are always met to be successful, have power, and normalcy, however women’s images are only about achieving beauty, become flawless and feel shame or guilty if you don’t accomplish it. Jean Kilbourne also addresses inequality, discrimination, racism, women’s objectification as well as sexualization, and all the consequences
…show more content…
Media has been the one to make these stigmas become real in our society’s minds. Media has given women the role as weak, emotional and codependent of men. Nowadays, females are being used to sell products by using their bodies or by performing sexual acts. Companies are persistent on selling their products by utilizing women’s “perfect” bodies and by sexualizing them. Media is the one to distribute to the world the image they have created among women and how powerful has men become over the other sex. With these ideas, women have had to live in a society that judges all the time, making them pursuit the image of a perfect body, which implies physical pain and damage, as well as psychological problems, healthy problems, economic issues, and even death. Kilbourne also states that these problems also lead to violence towards …show more content…
Many women choose their physical appearances over their intelligences, because of how our society has created that importance towards the side-out; this social issue should be taken more seriously and we should make big chances by now, in order to save our girls and boys lives. . Because I am a feminist, I look for equality and I’ve seen how media has been the main key to portray this inequality between sexes. Therefore I look upon the many problems this objectification of women’s bodies has harmfully brought in our society. As Jean Kilbourne states, “In this problem nobody wins, neither men nor women, unfortunately women lose more, because this image makes them seem as weak, therefore it leads to
Media has been the one to make these stigmas become real in our society’s minds. Media has given women the role as weak, emotional and codependent of men. Nowadays, females are being used to sell products by using their bodies or by performing sexual acts. Companies are persistent on selling their products by utilizing women’s “perfect” bodies and by sexualizing them. Media is the one to distribute to the world the image they have created among women and how powerful has men become over the other sex. With these ideas, women have had to live in a society that judges all the time, making them pursuit the image of a perfect body, which implies physical pain and damage, as well as psychological problems, healthy problems, economic issues, and even death. Kilbourne also states that these problems also lead to violence towards …show more content…
Many women choose their physical appearances over their intelligences, because of how our society has created that importance towards the side-out; this social issue should be taken more seriously and we should make big chances by now, in order to save our girls and boys lives. . Because I am a feminist, I look for equality and I’ve seen how media has been the main key to portray this inequality between sexes. Therefore I look upon the many problems this objectification of women’s bodies has harmfully brought in our society. As Jean Kilbourne states, “In this problem nobody wins, neither men nor women, unfortunately women lose more, because this image makes them seem as weak, therefore it leads to