1. Sexism in Advertising
... Companies of all sorts often use women in advertisements to sell their product(s). They display women on billboards and magazines as sex symbols. As Trisha Grover of Duluth YSA says, "Advertising frequently uses the image of sex or sexual pleasure to sell a product ... all have done an advertisement that degrades women. BMX, a bike company, has many advertisements for their video game that displays sexy women in skimpy outfits. One of the advertisements has a woman sitting in a limo wearing a blue wig, blue bra, and stilettos with a dog sitting between her legs. This is supposed to be a...
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