Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Jokes or Just Plain Insulting in Advertisement


This Ashley Madison ad negatively affects couples and promotes sexual prowess. It is an aim at married couples to cheat on their loved one. They support that belief by saying life is short. In other words you only live once so why not get to experience the loving thrill of an affair. This ad can have two affects on a partner in the relationship. The ad can convince one to change their ways in belief that this will solve the problems in their relationship. While it can also offend a partner in a relationship by making them more insecure and worried about what their other partner in the relationship is doing behind their back. Though, one can see this ad a joke, more than likely people will be offended because if you are married, you are due to only be with that person for the rest of your life.

This vegetarian ad creates many negative effects on woman by illustrating woman who are over sized as not right in today's society. They reference over sized woman as "whales". This supports the study in which states how these ads may affect a woman's attitude toward their body. This may make the woman feel insecure about their body thus giving them idea the idea that their worth less in society. Some may feel that these are just advertisements and can't be taken seriously, but based off of the popular ads we see on the daily, makes us absorb more than we think we do. Lastly this ad can cause woman to feel that they're not accepted in today's world, unless their skinny.