This post about the pretty amazing contest, is the search for the next seventeen Magazine cover girl. I am glad seventeen magazine wants a regular girl to be the cover and not a celebrity for once but despite all that, they have beauty tips on how to look, how to pose and even how to get a cover magazine hair which i still thinks implies that they want certain types of girls on the cover. This could still encourage what the definition of beauty is in our society today; which could make those who don't win feel like they are not pretty enough.
http://www.adrants.com/2003/08/marketing-food-body-sushi-style.php
This post advertises a human sushi platter; this ad is a form of objectifying women as tables even though men also are used for the body sushi. I don't know how it is valued in japan since is originally an obscure Japanese practice, I still think is a form of objectification.
Your first source gave me a lot more to think about our society. Ok. like the magazine 'Seventeen' needs a girl with skinny and pretty that every teenagers wanted to be (like some celebrities). And to become like that, it has to be skinny and pretty. I believe this type of activity makes people want to spend money on plastic surgery or so.
ReplyDeleteSecond source, I have heard about this, and I know this is pretty nasty, but Japan is one of the most sexually-developed country, so even though Japanese make female as a product, I guess we have to understand as their culture
Both these posts relate great with society today and the effect that pop culture has on our body image and the way we act, however, they don't really relate (at least without some serious analysis) to our class theme of the rhetoric of LOVE in pop culture. I would definitely look for a source that focuses more on love than just on pop culture.
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