domestic violence

I have decided to write about the domestic violence and how the media portrays women in society these days. I will talk about the different types of advertisement out there such as the media, the radio, books & magazines, television. Also i will discuss some of the history and how things have changed in the past from back in the day till the future. I will also talk about how the media thinks that these advertisements aren’t being violent but that they are only cutting edge, and artistic. I found this subject to be very interesting and very recent. The image I saw on your blog really disturbed me that people would honestly put a picture like that on an AD just to draw customers, even if it was in a negative way. This ad was about hair, except the main focal point was not the model’s hair, but it was the models bruised face with the man standing behind her holding up a piece of jewelry to make up for the “beating” I think that this is wrong in very many ways. The media should not be able to promote violence towards women or men in any sort of way, even though most leads towards women is it not fair to put things like that up. 

I have three sources so far starting with the internet. The first website I got my information on was actually on diagolostic.blogspot. under http://feministing.com they had a lot of good and interesting information on the subject and how women are portrayed in society. It talks a lot about peoples opinions on the subject and how is it really discriminating to females. 

Another website I got some information from was https://sites.google.com/a/sou.edu/sexualized-violence-against-women-in-advertising/  this website talks a lot about the term “rape myth.” Rape Myth is the cultural belief that women enjoy sexual assault and therefore share some of the blame in their attack. This is basically saying that it is ok for the media to make these sort of domestic violence advertisements because the women are asking for it, that’s what they like. Which in most cases is in fact not true. It shows that in some of the most famous companies they are using sexual violence to advertise. Even in simple household items such as toothpaste, gum, clothings, perfumes & colognes. Im most all advertisement women are portrayed as the “victim” in the Ad, whereas the male is the aggressor. 

The last source I found on the subject was a book called DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND THE POLITICS OF PRIVACY by Kristin A. Kelly. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8014-8829-X. volume 13 no. 7 (July 2003). This book just talking about domestic violence in general, but it helped me get a better understanding of the subject so that I would know exactly what to research and exactly what domestic violence was considered. 

I think that this paper will be very interesting to learn and write about, I hope you feel the same.