Objectify This

  Check out this video essay, “A Web Essay on The Male Gaze, Fashion Advertising, and The Pose” by Thomas Streeter, Nicole Hintlian, Samantha Chipetz, and Susanna Callender. It makes a lot of the points about the representation of women in the contemporary media as differing from representations of men.

In this video, Big Pun’s “100%,” featuring Tony Sunshine, the message is simultaneously one of Puerto Rican nationalism and unity and the objectification of women. The chorus in Spanglish, “Pronto llegara, el dia de mi suerte, te lo juro por mi gente, que el dia llegara, even though you playa’ hating, we always knew we’d [...]

So there’s this billboard on Route 9. It used to look like this: The obvious parallels between the shape of the woman’s hips and the beer bottle and the tagline “Expect Everything” unite the woman’s body with the beer, as something to be consumed. The addition of the belt buckle in the shape of the [...]

  Since the advent of television, the News has been presented by a figure in a suit, sitting behind a desk. As the medium through which the news is conveyed, and as the only visible member of the production team responsible for creating the news, this person embodies the inner monologue of the news. The [...]

Recently, this was at the bottom of an email i recieved from the AAS. I deleted the email, and then went back into my deleted files folder to get this quotation: “Men and women are a lot alike in certain situations. Like when they’re both on fire, they’re exactly alike.” — Dave Attell. I’m looking [...]