Embedded Files
Media & Gender
Theme: Resilience
Guiding Question
How can media influence our sense of self?
commonsensemedia.org
Attached below is a collection of gender ads from Mr. Slater's class.
You are invited send more in to add to it. The same goes for helpful websites and videos.
Jean Killbourne's Killing Us Softly 4 trailer
(You can find/rent the full video on youtube)
The Dangerous Ways Ads See Women (TED)
Jean Killbourne's Slim Hopes trailer
Jean Killbourne's (Killing Us Softly) official site (website)
#IStandUp Against the Harm Caused By Objectification of
Women in Adverstising womennotobjects.com
Evolution of a Model
This was made by a beauty product company, but still...
What happens to 3 of 4 girls after leaving through fashion magazines
Ugly Truth in Fashion Magazines
The Fashion Industry's Problem with "Plus-Size" Women
Why Women's Clothing Rarely Has Pockets
Celebrity Photoshop Transformations
Pop Princesses Photoshopped To Have Disney Princess Proportions - WEBSITE
4 "real" women after seeing themselves turned into "cover models"
The problem with women's clothing sizes - ARTICLE
A Cartoonist's take on "Fatness, Femininity and the Media We Deserve"
8 Ugly Facts About How the Fashion Industry Creates Beauty - WEBSITE
The UK just banned sexist ads. It could change the way an entire generation of girls learns to see themselves.
The UK just banned sexist ads. It could change the way an entire generation of girls learns to see themselves.
Teen pressures 17 Magazine to stop using Photoshop
And succeeds... CNN
Kate Winslet includes "No Photoshop" clause in new cosmetics contract
Julia Roberts airbrushed ad ban (article)
London bans 'unrealistic body images' from transport system (article)
When They Imagine Clothes For Models, Here's What Actual Women
Would Have To Look Like (website)
Gender Ads Project (website)
The Truth in Ads Act
Collection of Offensive Recent Ads (website)
25 Shockingly Sexist Vintage Ads (website)
How to Change What You Find Attractive in 60 Seconds
If Women's Roles in Ads Were Played by Men
Reducing Gender Stereotypes in Media Made for Kids (Gena Davis)
Early 1900s Poster Warning About the Dangers of Women's Rights - MORE
Gender & Halloween costumes
Disney's Controversial Decision on Kids' Halloween Costumes (9/15) - WEBSITE
Real-Life Barbie Doll: Model Transforms into Doll-like Image (News story)
https://www.facebook.com/Upworthy/posts/771512242889636?notif_t=notify_me
Barbie & Body-Image
2016 - Barbie Finally Gets a New Body! - ARTICLE
Barbie Debuts Judge Dolls to Close 'Dream Gap' - ARTICLE
Where do we learn this stuff?
https://medium.com/design-ux/31bbf396cf4f
Comic book characters redrawn with realistic bodies - more HERE
A photographic look at how the color of toys might influences us as children
More - HERE
Mattel Launches Gender Inclusive Dolls - ARTICLE
Market Segmentation (Gendered Marketing)
A car for women? (This is real - 2016 ARTICLE)
18 Lady Products that Cost More than their Male Counterparts" - Website
The Secret Psychology of Selling Beauty Products to Men - WEBSITE
Teenager Convinces McDonald's to Stop Gender Stereotyping Toys (article)
English newspaper refuses to review books marketed to specific genders (article)
What Message Does This Send?
Artist Katherine Young's "re-do" of the Girl's Life cover, suggesting how it should be
Study of girls before and after TV introduced in Fiji (article)
Change the Way You Look at Women
Israel first country to ban "too skinny" models
Super Thin French Models Must Have Doctor's Note of Health - 2015 (article)
France Cracks Down on Photoshopped Bodies in Ads (website)
Toddlers & Tiaras (news article) Child beauty pageant (documentary)
Women's Ideal Body Type Throughout History
Sex Doesn't Sell (!)
On Beauty & Race
The Bechdel Test
Romantic Comedies Teach Women That Stalking is a Compliment - ARTICLE/VIDEOS
The Honest Beauty Project (Website)
Satirical beauty product ad
A Teen Just Trying to Figure it Out
Fifteen-year-old Tavi Gevinson had a hard time finding strong female, teenage role models
-- so she built a space where they could find each other.
Why are Old Women Often the Face of Evil in Fairy Tales & Folklore? - ARTICLE + AUDIO
Article -- HERE
The Mask You Live in (an exploration of American masculinity)
How Movies Teach Manhood
Tough Guise (male violence)
Breaking the Boy's Code of Masculinity (Ted Talk)
Bigger, Faster, Stronger (documentary)
American Male (MTV short film)
And this...
Sexism, Strength & Domination in Disney
Ask yourself why this is funny. Is it?
http://iwastesomuchtime.com/on/?i=35639
Gender Stereotypes in The Little Mermaid
And what do you make of this old ad? More vintage weight gain ads HERE
Gender bias in the media
The Social Impact of Body Love
Sample student projects (not Mr. Slater's)
Why Gender Matters in Social Media
Body in the Media: Gender Stereotypes & Body Posture
Are Video Games Sexist?
The "Damsel in Distress" in Video Games (Part 1)
The "Damsel in Distress" in Video Games (Part 2)
The "Damsel in Distress" in Video Games (Part 3)
Women as Rewards in Video Games
The Evolution of Female Superheroes
Stats/Article about how women over 40 disappear in Hollywood
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