So, my grandparents had their fiftieth wedding anniversary over Labor Day weekend and my whole family got together. Well, my mother was in charge of the whole gathering and was going around collecting money from her two brothers. They only had to fork over fifteen dollars for their share. Well, when my mother went over to collect from one of her brothers he said that he didn’t have it. So, what does my mother do? She pushes and pushes trying to get the money from him. You would have to understand my mother’s relationship with her brother because what she was doing was not a good thing. Then after my mother asked him like four times, he pushed her against the garage wall and supposedly choked her. When I received the call I was furious. No man has any right to touch a woman in that manner what-so-ever. Even though my mother didn’t have any bruising it still doesn’t make what my Uncle did right. Men are taught by society that it is ok to beat a woman for no reason. Women have been beat for hundreds of years. So it is not why should we be shocked when it occurs time after time? The reason is because women are constantly exploited by the media. An ad for Abercrombie and Fitch states, “Who needs brains when you have these?” Do you really think that the ad was about clothing? What about the ad for a major long-distance telephone carrier that shows three apparently naked women holding a billing statement from a competing phone carrier? The text asks, “When was the last time you got screwed?” The sad part is that the women in both of the ads sign up to make these commercials. They want to be exploited. Women need to understand that this is a wrong way for others to view women. No wonder we will never be equal to men. There aren’t too many ads out there that exploit men, but there wouldn’t be since the people who produce the ads are probably all men.
