Killing USftly 3 Summary

1.) In the documentary “Killing Us Softly 3”, the author Jean Kilbourne discussed judgments that are made daily towards women and men in our country. The documentary mainly focused on the body image that is used to sell merchandize reflecting body prints, along with printed ads. Furthermore, the ads portrayed that women had to be thin, young, and tall to fit a certain image of beauty. We as women, are taught that we must spend time, energy, and money in order to be considered as beautiful. As for the men, they are always portrayed with power and masculinity, which could have a link with violence. In addition, the documentary also focused mainly on the discrimination of body language, and how it can lead to eating disorders for young ladies, and how it can mentally and physically restrict them.

2.) In Chapter 9 of “Short Rage”, Dr. Burris-Kitchen discussed racism, heightism, materialism, and affirmative action; which means an action or policy favoring those who tend to suffer from discrimination. Phol’s 5 Components of Critical theorizing, relates to people being in position of power. People that has the position of power, has access to knowledge which means that they can reproduce that knowledge. Power is having the ability to make people do something even in the face of conflict. For instance, The War on Drugs; presented that
There is also a lack of national planning in the media, and it’s constantly telling citizens to buy items when citizens does not have a job, or any financial support to buy what is being advertised. More than likely, this leads to the state trying to control the burdened people who are trying to buy expensive items, or things that they need to survive. This all leads to people trying to takeover