Personal Response to Advertising

Personal response to Advertising

This day-and-age it seems like we are constantly being bombarded with advertisements everywhere we go. Many people choose to succumb to the pitfalls of advertising, but fortunately I am not one of those people as I have been successful in avoiding the overwhelming flood of ads throughout my life. There are a few reasons why I have been able to avoid being influenced by advertising first off I cannot stand the commercials, the effect it has on our society and the sexist commercials

I dislike commercials, because they've turned it into little movies. I've watched hundreds of commercials and they use to be basically a guy standing there saying, "Buy my product; here's why." More and more people are becoming lazy and no longer wish to think things through. So commercials are now little clips of videos, basically, with a whole plotline and story, with some sensually dressed woman selling a product to a man, who is ignorant to its value. People don't want to think about using the product for some good, average-man use. They want to imagine themselves as hot 18 year olds from 90210, using that awesome lotion or buying that delicious taco. Advertising is no longer informative; it uses tricks and catchy phrases to get us to buy something.

Another thing that bothers me is the sexism in commercials. In a majority of commercials these days a woman comes out half dressed with a perfect body and tries to sell you something like a new lawnmower, something that has nothing to do with the woman at all. In a commercial for pizza, a man says, "I don't believe you can give me a pizza for 5$ whenever I want." and the smiling waitress in a tube top hands him a pizza right then and there, with the attitude of, "you could never get a woman like me." It is quite disgusting how advertising is now a circus-show, rather than something to keep us informed. I am tired of it of seeing endless commercials of some half-dressed