Advertising or Sadvertising:
By depicting beautiful and successful women as white, thin, and flirtatious,
the advertisement industries promote unrealistic expectations for women to live up to. An ad for Tab Energy featured in the recent June/July issue of Jane magazine is a perfect example. A womens interests magazine (Ulrich), Jane's target audience is young, heterosexual women between the ages of twenty two and thirty five.
In this ad, a young, attractive, thin white woman with blonde hair is dancing at a club while a man stares at her intently. Her expression gives off an air of happiness, while maintaining her aloof quality. Regardless of the attention she is getting, her blank stare gazes down at the consumer and generates a sense of oblivion to her surroundings. The movement portrayed, as well as the many shades of pink color in the ad, create a mood that is both lively and light-hearted.
When we think of clubs we think of dancing, drinking, and loud music. Clubs......
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