Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence in an Urban Context

Imagine creating your perfect baby, kind of like children create their perfect teddy bears in Build-A-Bear. Imagine picking its gender, eye color, hair color, height, weight, intelligence level etc. This baby would be created just for you! This might sound impossible, but in fact it isn’t. Up until about ten years ago, it was just […]

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Kilbourne argues that media advertisement influences our society greatly, today more than ever. However, the worst part about this is that it influences our younger generations the most. She brings up many examples of advertisements that show “perfect” women: skinny, pretty, big boobs and she even makes a joke that these women don’t have pores. […]

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Kilbourne argues and shows how the media and advertising influences our society today, especially the young generations. She brings up how it is having a huge effect on the younger girls today and is indirectly bringing their sexuality closer and making their childhood end earlier. Kilbourne is trying to help us open our eyes and […]

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These days we do not pay attention as closely as we should to the messages that media and advertisement put out to their audience. Kilbourne’s argument highlights this clearly for us. We are surrounded daily by sexual advertisement that has nothing to do with the product trying to be sold and we do not even […]

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From a very young age, girls grow to learn that we must spend a great deal of time on how we look. Many women these days try so hard to lose weight and to look good for the world. It is no wonder that so many women these days suffer from eating disorders. But where […]

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Kilbourne’s argument provides a lot of insight to the messages being portrayed in the media and advertisement. In our world today these messages are most often over looked because of their subliminal nature. Other times we just don’t pay attention to them and how they can affect younger generations, especially the ones who are close […]

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In watching Kilbourne’s speech concerning the effects of advertising on modern society, one cannot deny she raises many interesting points. By illustrating how pervasive advertising has become in modern media, she makes it clear how powerful it can be on our culture. It goes beyond selling products, and affects a society’s values, ideals, and concepts […]

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Kilbourne’s argument is very relevant in today’s society where women are constantly being sold in the advertisement world.  Women are faced with constant scrutiny by others, especially the entertainment world, about their bodies and self-image.  From the time of birth girls are always expected to be passive while boys are encouraged to “give ‘em hell.”  […]

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I agree with her argument about how the media and society downgrade women in their advertisements and in turn, affects the way women act and view themselves. It is a popular tactic in marketing called “Sex Sells.” It is extremely controversial and not always ethical, but it does work. So why does sex sell? It […]

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Kilbourne makes many valid points in her argument which I agree on. Women are scrutinized for their physical appearance on a regular basis. We are bombarded daily with thousands of images of what we should look like but none of these images are realistic. It is interesting that she mentioned how adolescent girls’ self-esteem plummets […]

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