The document discusses issues with sexualized and inappropriate images of women and children in media. It provides examples of ads featuring scantily clad or nude women as well as lingerie marketed towards young girls. The document also notes alarming statistics about child abuse and discusses a Tennessee law making it a crime to publicly display images intended to cause emotional distress.
10. Vanity Far Magazine
“Your breast may be
too big, too saggy, too
pert, too flat, too full,
too far apart, too
close together, too A
cup, too lopsided, too
jiggle, too pale, too
padded, too pointy,
too pendulous or just
two mosquito bites.
But with DEP styling
products at least you
can have your hair
the way you want it”.
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11. The media would be
doing the same thing to
the male gender if
advertisements like this…
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13. Were displayed
with a caption like
this …
“Your penis may be
too small, too
droopy, too limp,
too lop-sided, too
narrow, too fat, too
pale, too pointy, too
blunt, or just two
inches. But at least
you can have a
great pair of jeans”.
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15. Little Girl Lingerie Is All Sorts of
Wrong
• The photos are ads for a new line of “lingerie” for girls as
young as 3 months.
Hi I’m
only 7
years old
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17. Shocking statistics:
•A report of child abuse is made every ten seconds.
•Almost five children die everyday as a result of child abuse.
More than three out of four are under the age of 4.
•Child abuse occurs at every socioeconomic level, across ethnic
and cultural lines, within all religions and at all levels of
education
•The estimated annual cost of child abuse and neglect in the
United States for 2007 is $104 billion.
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18. What is it?
What is our government
doing to prevent this? Watch out what you post online because it can land
you a hefty fine of up to $2,500 and up to a year in
jail.
“If you‟re posting a picture of someone in an
embarrassing situation — not at all limited to, say,
Tennessee House Bill 300 sexually themed pictures or illegally taken pictures —
you‟re likely a criminal unless the prosecutor, judge,
Tennessee law or jury concludes that you had a „legitimate purpose.‟
makes displaying
“Likewise, if you post an image intended to distress
distressing images some religious, political, ethnic, racial, etc. group, you
a crime too can be sent to jail if governments decision maker
thinks your purpose wasn‟t „legitimate.‟ Nothing in the
law requires that the picture be of the „victim,‟ only
that it be distressing to the „victim.‟
“The same is true even if you didn‟t intend to distress
those people, but reasonably should have known that
the material — say, pictures of Mohammed, or
blasphemous jokes about Jesus Christ, or harsh
cartoon insults of some political group — would
‟cause emotional distress to a similarly situated person
of reasonable sensibilities. 18