Category Archive for: ‘Print Ads’

I think this is a good example of the reversal of objectification.  Now this hunky man is the desired object, rather than a woman. Oddly enough though, it’s a fragrance for men, and the name is about as subtle as a gun.

So it really bothers me that women were and continue to be stereotyped and hormonal and psychologically not put together . That women are considered unstable and depressed when really we get angry at all the stupid things that men do. This prozac ad box looks like tide detergent that we use on our clothes.  I dont know if that …

Dove has created ads that do not just show the skinny, gorgeous model but the ‘normal’ male and female. In this ad it shows men who are tall, short, on the larger side, and even on the hairier side. However it does not show the ‘abnormal’ model we are used to seeing in Abrecrombie and Fitch ads or on Hollister …

The Ralph Lauren Ad brought great controversy because of how skinny the woman portrayed in this ad is. The Ad seems to tell women that they should be lengthy, skinny, and dainty looking. This ad is very different from the Dove ads that portray women and men in all different lights: skinny, fat, middle class, high class, brown hair, blond …