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Killing Us Softly Response

As I watched ‘Killing us Softly 3’, I began to feel the clutch of Jean Kilbourne’s hand around my dignity as I already found myself preparing my mind’s susceptibility to her reprimanding me for being a part of the mass media culture who through its advertising objectifies women. Unfortunately for Mrs. Kilbourne however, these feelings of self-loathing were short lived. I realized that as a sympathizer for the hardships and discrimination that women are faced with, I was almost drawn into this amalgamation of carefully chosen advertising and continual castigation. I only approach this so critically because I strongly feel as though her prancing through what she would have us believe is ‘modern media’ is actually completely detrimental to her cause.
Kilbourne wastes no time in asserting that females are stricken with much more insecurity than males are growing up. She attributes this imbalance of self-esteem to the models that force women to look up to the unachievable......


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