Over I enjoyed Dr. Skelly's talk. I thought he brought up valid points. However when listening to him I had a hard time applying what he was saying to things we had discussed in class already. I was not apply to make the connection about some of his remarks to gender conflict.
I was able to pull a few concept or topics that he discussed and apply them to topics that might be brought up in class. The first was the idea of consumerism. He was talking about who used to smoke cigarettes and there has been a shift in who buys them. Before there were stereotypes for women if the smoke. They were lose women or they we seen in an unflattering light.
Just thinking about it I feel that in the early twentieth century women were this untapped market place. Correct me if I am wrong I feel like once they expanded the marketing of items to different people, it made us more and more of a consumer nations.
Go back to commercials I think that people in the marketing or advertising field need to have an idea of what sells. Especially to what is appealing to women, men, or both. There is such a struggle in the field looking into. When design an ad you have to figure at what gender it is appealing to and what type of person. Media has a lot of influence on gender and divides. Media keep enforcing certain ideas. If you look at commercial aimed at children products. The girls are always playing with dolls or stuffed animals while the boys have the trucks or building blocks.
Media has a huge influence on how men and women are perceived cultural. The shows were women are not stay at home mom, they deal with the struggle of are they being good moms. You never have a show with successful women or are moms not have a internal or outside conflict.
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