For my poster, I really wanted to talk about how women are treated. But more specifically about how women's bodies are looked at sexually along with their age and choice of clothing. Since we were young, we were told to cover up our shoulders and to not have our skirts pass our fingertips in school. This rule is a dumb one due to people being distracted anyway without the need of telling females to cover up. When women are even covered up with an oversized sweats and hoodie for example, they were still victims of sexual assault. What we wear isn’t consent or means that “we are asking for it” since we wear want for ourselves and not for others so it doesn't give others the right to do stuff without communicating it through us first. Also, if the men were ever taught to watch what they say and not think so provocatively towards women and actually respect them, then this wouldn’t be an issue. They sexualize everything when it comes to women like boob sizes, butt size, thick thighs for example. Even if our nipple is showing through our t-shirt that everyone has, is even sexualized.
In John Berger’s book, “Ways of Seeing” it states, “Publicity increasingly uses sexuality to send any product or service” (144). This quote relates to how in most commercials that involve selling a product usually includes women half-dressed due to it catching more people’s attention to want to buy it. Even if the product didn’t include those women, then the products would still sell the same way. Another quote but from Bell Hooks in “Understanding Patriarchy” states, “Patriarchy is a political-social system that insist that males are inherently dominating, superior to everything and everyone deemed week, especially females, and endowed with the right to dominate and rule over the weak and to maintain that dominance through various forms of psychological terrorism and violence” (18). Men have been designed from birth into thinking that they can do whatever they want and treat women however without any consequences. Along with that, they see women as something that they can control and someone to take advantage of when they don’t get their way.
The quotes on the poster are some that were either said to me or heard from others that I thought were important to include since others may have also heard it. One of the pictures on the poster, I feel so strongly about due to hearing it from my parents before. Back then I didn’t see it as them trying to protect me but them trying to control me but in reality, they just didn't want me to be sexualized from men at such a young age.
Hi Jada, your project turned out really good! I thought it was interesting how you included specific statements that you've heard before, as it's things nearly every woman hears growing up, and the relatability makes your message easier to spread. The only feedback I have is to maybe make the things you included on your poster bigger on the paper? I had to enlarge the image to be able to read it, so it might be hard to see in public. Overall though, your project is really nice!
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