annotated bib.

Kilbourne, Jean. Media Selection. “Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt: Advertising and Violence”.Rereading America: Eighth Edition. Text. 18 Nov. 2012.

In this essay, taken from her 1999 book "Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel", the author Jean Kilbourne explains how sexual and violent advertising in the media are affecting women and men’s attitudes, which leads to sexual aggression. Kilbourne argues the way ads portray bodies of women as objects conditions us to see each other in dehumanizing ways, thus normalizing and glorifying rape and violence. Also, when compared to women, men are less likely to be sexually abused, but cultural attitudes make it difficult to take this seriously. As an example, “Many boys grow up feeling that they are unmanly if they are not always ‘ready for action,’ capable of and interested in sex with any women who is available” (595). Some men do not like the highest authority position in the relationship, but feel obligated to play that part. She does a good job of comparing and explaining how the male and female gender roles are influenced through advertising.

Blakie. "Gender Roles and Degrading Women in America." Yahoo! Contributor Network. N.p., 15 Nov. 2012. Web. 18 Nov. 2012. http://voices.yahoo.com/gender-roles-degrading-women-america-10930.html.

The author, Blakie explains how gender roles are taught to us since the second we are born. She says children should not be enforced so much of gender roles. She suggests giving a child an equal balance of gender roles will make it so they do not have to conform to the modern gender roles. She also explains the history of the inequalities women had to overcome in-order to receive equal rights as men. Women’s rights have come a long way in our nation, but she says there still are gender inequalities. As an example, "Though now women are able to earn college degrees, have careers, own property, vote, or even run for political positions themselves, there are still countless gender inequalities".