Sexism In Media: If These Photos Make You Uncomfortable, Then You Know How I, And Many Women Feel
I began this project with the intention to highlight the ridiculousness of gender roles in print advertising. I didn’t realize that I was going to find something even bigger. The problem of sexism in advertising and media in general is widespread and dangerous. This practice of separating a woman’s body from her mind and making her into individual body parts to be used and sexualized is all too common in our society.
I can respect that advertising is an art in and of itself, however; it is one thing to use the human body for art, and another to use nudity to exploit and demean an entire gender and sell products. Don’t get me wrong: there is nothing wrong with nudity. The human body is beautiful, but should be celebrated NOT sexualized. If any of these photos of sexualized men make you uncomfortable, then now you know how I, and many women, feel looking at billboards, magazine ads, TV commercials, and all kinds of media every day.
These images are copyright Callie Compton 2014-2015 and I reserve ALL rights to their use. High resolution images are available upon request. This project was nominated for the Dean’s Creative Achievement Award at the University of Memphis as the Journalism Department’s representative.
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Based on a PETA ad
Based on an ad for BMW
Based on an American Apparel ad
Based on a Calvin Klein jeans ad
Based on a Tom Ford ad
Based on an ad for BMW
Based on D&G ads
Based on an editorial shoot
Based on the Vogue shoot starring Keira Knightley and Natalie Portman
Concept from photographers and models
Based on D&G ads
Based on a YSL ad
Based on a Vogue Italia cover
Based on the Paper Magazine cover with Kim Kardashian
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Yeah. Kind of the same for me. But then, we've never been subjected to institutional gender discrimination, or had our gender used as an excuse to hold us back, deny us jobs, pay us less, minimize us, our thoughts, contributions or ideas.
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To quote a comment on a buzzfeed Facebook post, we took these sexist ads and made them a different kind of sexist
Yeah. Kind of the same for me. But then, we've never been subjected to institutional gender discrimination, or had our gender used as an excuse to hold us back, deny us jobs, pay us less, minimize us, our thoughts, contributions or ideas.
Load More Replies... To quote a comment on a buzzfeed Facebook post, we took these sexist ads and made them a different kind of sexist
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