Rational Argument

 

My rationale was about women being sexualized in advertisements. It has been a worldwide issue and has still been going on for decades. I talked about the reasons why they are sexualized and how it is affecting them. I first thought of this topic when I was in my gender studies class. We read a chapter from Feminism Is for Everybody by Bell Hooks. Hooks explained how women were developing eating disorders because they needed to look a certain way for the advertisements. They never met the expectation of being skinny.

We then watched a film called Killing Us Softly 4, which goes into more depth about the advertisements. The film explains how models wished they looked like they did in ads. Women were being sold products that claimed to get them skinnier, but it only took a toll on women and led them to be anorexic. 

I furthered my research by exploring academic journals and doing excessive research. I found it interesting to learn why people thought it was okay because it was an attention grabber. I found it sad that that is our kind of world. I'd like to focus on the picture. In the film we watched in my gender studies class, we talked about the different ways people used to get the viewer's attention, and one used them like a child. This was interesting because you had to look innocent to be sexy, and looking like a child was perverted. The ways of thinking were wrong, but I could see both sides of the story and wished we could do more to help.