In Response to Christine's "Advertising"

I agree with Christine's thoughts on "Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt." This article and our class discussion really made me think about some of that tactics that advertisers may be using to get us to notice and purchase their products. Some of the ideas that the author had about the ads seemed a little ridiculous and like she was over analyzing what the ad was saying, but at the same time, we have to realize that these ads are gradually impacting our society and the way we think. If society sees certain things in magazines, although they may not agree with them, those things start to gradually become more and more of a normality and a thing of daily life. The first time we see a "riskay" type of message in an add it may shock us, but we won't believe it. However, as we see more of those ads, we are desensitized to the idea of having those types of ideas exposed to the public in the form of ads. It become okay to us bc it is the norm. We see it all the time. In this way, on individual ad is not destroying society, rather the reappearance of many different types of ads are gradually changing society's opinion of what does and doesn't belong in a magazine, or an a billboard.