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Sexual Images in Media

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This advertisement shows that male dominance is natural and sexy. The man is obviously being more dominant than the woman, who is acting merely as a submissive object for him to use. It presents itself as if this is the way things should be when really this is an ad for jeans and the way its presented is unnecessary. This advertisement shows of the innocence that apparently a lot of men are into. The woman is laughing with her hand up by her face. It presents her as an innocent creature that could do no wrong, and I suppose that's some guys fantasy or something but that's weird. This ad shows off that aspect in advertising that the woman is merely and object that only wants sex. She's on top of the male in the ad dressed in a 'naughty' manner. She is definitely presented as if the only this a woman should care about is sex, or pleasing a man. These advertisements definitely reinforce a gender role for women. They're basically saying that the way that

Billy Talent: Canadian Lads

Canadian Content: Billy Talent

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Pennyface - The Newest Horror Flick

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Making and Marking the Media

Video #1 "What is Media Literacy" The first video we watched, "What is Media Literacy" made a good point on the fact that we, as consumers have to be critical of the media. It goes on further to say that we can't be critical only as media consumers, we have to be critical of the media we produce too. I think that this is an important point because if we are not critical of both the media that we consume AND the media that we produce, then all the media will be below good quality. If we are not more critical of all media, the media will not improve enough to the point where an average person can have a better understanding of media literacy and therefore be able to tell when the media is worth listening to. Another good point that was made during this video is that they outright said the truth. That is, the goal of most corporations is to make money above all else. This point is very true, because most of these corporations aren't producing media out