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Artifact 1: One of my favorite music artist starting from the time I was in middle school was Christina Aguilera. After she debuted with her "Stripped" album, I would get in these debates with my friends about whether or not she was selling her body or if she was trying to put it all out there. Granted, most of the girls I would debate with were Christina haters, so I guess there wasn't much debating cause I definitely was not going to change their minds. Either way, depending on which side of the fence you are coming from, she is either a complete object or empowering to other women.
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Artifact 3: Last spring, I spent a term aboard in the beautiful city of Barcelona, Spain. When I was there, I took over 1,000 pictures documenting my travels. When I was looking at the TA's blog, Noah, to get some ideas for my own blog, I though of a particular photo of some graffiti art that I took in BCN. It reads (in both english and spanish), "Once upon a time, when I shit on your face, and then I love you, after I fucked your mom!" This is far from a romantic poem, and there is definitely no question if this is empowering, it is absolutely an example of objectification. It kind of reminded me of that whole PR stunt a while back about the rapper, I think it was R. Kelly, and him doing his business on a girls chest... I don't really remember the whole story, but the picture reminded me of it.
Artifact 4: There is a saying that more is better, and another one that goes something like everything is better in sets of twos... Everyone remembers the billboards plastered around town about five years right before the super bowl, right? Well say hello to the Coors Light Twins, also known as Diane and Elaine Klimaszewski. To me, this is a classic example of objectification. They are selling their bodies for a beer company! Then again, there are also those who would say that it is empowering for the exact same reason. Either way you cut it, Coors Light plastered the idea of selling beer to men by using two beautiful women, that also happen to be twins, and it actually worked.
Artifact 2: The beautiful Jessica Simpson was casted in the re-make of "Dukes of Hazzard" in 2005. Personally, there were two different aspects to her in this film, the sexual object side that many men saw her as-she definitely put them in their place though. And then there is the other tomboy side-she grew up learning about cars, how to use tools and how to fix things around the house, all while wearing her tiny 'daisy-dukes.' Guess you don't have to be a boy to know about those kinds of things now... Regardless, Jessica Simpson can be easily viewed as either an object or empowering in that movie.
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Artifact 3: Last spring, I spent a term aboard in the beautiful city of Barcelona, Spain. When I was there, I took over 1,000 pictures documenting my travels. When I was looking at the TA's blog, Noah, to get some ideas for my own blog, I though of a particular photo of some graffiti art that I took in BCN. It reads (in both english and spanish), "Once upon a time, when I shit on your face, and then I love you, after I fucked your mom!" This is far from a romantic poem, and there is definitely no question if this is empowering, it is absolutely an example of objectification. It kind of reminded me of that whole PR stunt a while back about the rapper, I think it was R. Kelly, and him doing his business on a girls chest... I don't really remember the whole story, but the picture reminded me of it. Artifact 4: There is a saying that more is better, and another one that goes something like everything is better in sets of twos... Everyone remembers the billboards plastered around town about five years right before the super bowl, right? Well say hello to the Coors Light Twins, also known as Diane and Elaine Klimaszewski. To me, this is a classic example of objectification. They are selling their bodies for a beer company! Then again, there are also those who would say that it is empowering for the exact same reason. Either way you cut it, Coors Light plastered the idea of selling beer to men by using two beautiful women, that also happen to be twins, and it actually worked.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2255/2101841175_3a8e641d6d.jpg?v=Q)
Artifact 5: For those of you who haven't seen the show, "Nip/Tuck", it is about two successful plastic surgeons in Miami, Florida. Obviously, these men make a living off of convincing women that they are not perfect and their lives would dramatically improve if they had X, Y, and Z surgeries. Granted, some of these women don't take any arm twisting to convince them that having the surgeries would make their lives better, but still, they make their living off of objectifying their patients. Nonetheless, this particular clip shows Dr. Troy explaining to Kimber, a potential client and one of his conquests, that she is only an 8, but could easily become a 10 with a few minor procedures. This is a cut and dry case of objectification, no questions asked.
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IQJewnDieo)
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