Media Overview

The media reinforces many stereotypes. Most of the stereotypes harm women. Not only do the stereotypes effect the way men look at women, but also the way women look at themselves. Women barely take up any of the important jobs that are "meant" for men. This is because people think that women only care about how they look and can't be serious about work. Sadly this gives women such a less advantage in the work place.

What reinforces the stereotypes are the roles women play in movies and TV shows. Women usually play the damsel in distress, the one who needs to be saved, almost always by a strong handsome man. This shows people that men are the dominant people in the relationship or just in life in general. Women also wear very revealing outfits in movies and TV shows. So in movies like Civil War, where there is finally an important woman superhero such as Black Widow, she still wears showy outfits that demoralize her. In most movies with Vanessa Hudgens, she gets drenched with water so her clothes stick to her showing off her figure. Even if the actress gives women a serious important name, they still in someway also bring women down 

The merchants of cool

The merchants of cool is a movie about how advertisers get their product out. In this movie, the advertisers give their secrets about how they attract people to watch their tv shows and sell their products. The truth is, they seem to have to know a lot about a person before they can even start the layout of a commercial to try to sell their products. 

The advertisers actually know everything about a person before selling them their product. They sell what they think the customer would want based on the apps they have, what they buy at the supermarket, what pictures they have on social media, and who they follow on social media. Based on this, not only can they judge what to sell the person, but also they can do door to door polls. This way, they can appeal to your wants based on what you buy.

Another interesting thing in this movie were the "cool hunters." These people go to kids houses and just take notes on what they like. They also make sure to find out what the kids own. By doing this, the advertisers can predict what will be cool next. They can also find out who is cool and have those people, as they are in college, throw parties and hand out fliers for their products.

 

Miss representation

Miss representation is a movie about how women are being misrepresented in media. Women are not as prominent in media, such as a news broadcaster, or a producer, or even in advertising. This is peculiar because women watch television so much more than men. However, the women, though they admit that it is wrong, don't do anything to change it and keep watching these movies.

Even so, there are a few women who are in important media jobs. Even so, the women in these jobs are scrutinized more than men. Many people are more likely to listen to what men are saying. On the other hand, many people are more likely to look at a woman's clothes and judge the way she looks before they listen to what is actually coming out of her mouth.

Overall, in this movie, there are many people who give their input on the problem. People such as the secretary of the state felt witnessed first hand, the sexism she felt as she sat next to the president. People think that women are more bright and more likely to succeed than men. This makes it harder for women to get a job because of the stereotype that men are more productive than women.

 

Pizza My Heart

If you think about it, Pizza My Heart is a brilliant business. I don't know many people who don't know of pizza my heart, let alone had a slice of pizza there. Pizza My Heart is a chain pizza place with amazing pizza. They are very family freindly and not very fancy, but won't judge at all. The slices of pizza are huge so you get a lot for how much you pay.

 

The place my family and I usually get our pizza from is either in Capitola or Santa Cruz. There are so many other places that Pizza My Heart exists. Because it is a chain, there are many Pizza My Hearts and I believe the business is still growing.

Pizza My Heart is so brilliant evacuee they sell shirts really cheap to go along with their pizza. Each place has a it's name under the Pizza My Heart logo so everybody knows where you got it. Not only is it only six dollars for the shirt and the pizza, but they are so comfortable too! And they are just plain material so you can practice in them and basically do anything you want in them. Sometimes there are even special shirts for different occasions. But, not only are we getting a deal with cheap comfortable shirts, but they are too. With so many people walking around with Pizza My Heart shirts, theee are advertisements everywhere.

Sketchers

 

When I was little, my mom would dress me up in such adorable clothes and I was so cute with my little frills and pink everything. Than, I would insist on wear sketchers. I always wanted to wear sketchers when I was little. I wanted to wear them all the time. In fact, the only time I didn't wear sketchers was when my mom made me wear some pair of shoes that were actually cute. And now my sister enjoys tormenting me about it.

But lately, sketchers have been trying to chane how they are looked upon. When I was little they were what every little kid was wearing. Then in elementary school/middle school, I saw a commercial where there were kids who were running away from a tire monster. And the you on their sketchers and they could defeat the monster and than out run him. 

Now, sketchers is trying to make people think they are completely new. Recently they made a few commercials with adults wearing sketchers. The commercial was made up of women who said that they always wear sketchers. They said that sketchers are cute now and they are so comfortable. Now, instead of being a sneaker, they look more like flats, kind of like Toms. Sketchers is trying to renew themselves, but I don't think it will work.

L'oreal

L'oreal is a fairly successful brand that produces beauty products. This brand covers nail polish, make up, skin care, hair color, hair care, and much more. I know that I have bought a few l'oreal products and my mom buys a lot of l'oreal. The only mascara she uses is from l'oreal. Needless to say, l'oreal is doing good with selling it's many products.

Most of l'oreals ads use the sex appeal to show the customers that buying l'oreal will only do you good. With it's hair products, usually they just use somebody with the "ultimately beautiful hair" to show people why they should use the l'oreal products. Which would be so that have the hair that they want. That's why it would make sense that they used Chris Hemsworth as a model for their ad. 

 

Chris Hemsworths hair is practically perfect. His hair is beautifully blonde and shiny when the sun hits it. Also, in this ad, his hair is very long, filling up the entire background of the ad showing how this hair grew long and perfect because he used l'oreal. The ad is also really simple, for the only words on it are l'oreal Paris. This makes it easier for people to admire the hair because there is only a little bit they have to read.

L'oreal also used Chris Hemsworth as the model because it can apply to both men and women. As we have learned recently, the advertisers and marketers have a harder time connecting with the men than the women. So by having Chris Hemsworth be the model, they are showing the men that they can still be manly and use l'oreal giving them good hair, and by showing the women, if they buy their husbands l'oreal they will have beautiful har like Chris Hemsworth. 

Cabin

To me, the meaning of cabin is being able to relax and take in the fresh air and slow down for a second. However, when I went up to my cabin yesterday, that's not what happened. We drove up and there was water gushing out of the front door. We brought the wrong keys so we had tear down the door and when we got inside, the cabin was completely flooded, mild everywhere. 

Needless to say, my weekend of final relaxation since I have been so stressed this year, was just a day of cleaning out my greatgrandmother and greatgrandfather's precious belongings, since it was my greatgrandfather who built the cabin. This made me think about how important the cabin was to me. Unlike almost all other cabins, my cabin had no wifi or tv or anything. But instead of board and annoyed as many would be, it always makes me take a step back and read a book, breathe in the fresh air while I am on the hammock on out patio, swim in the creek which is just a free yard off our patio, or go for a hike around the cabin and find new places. 

When I realized we couldn't stay the night because of the mold, I was very sad. When I got home and went straight to technology, I got even more sad. Technology overruns our life so much, sometimes we can't even enjoy it. I have it in my head that I can only relax when I am at my cabin, but that's not true. I just always go to the technology before anything else. Because the cabin doesn't let me do this, I have that idea in my head.