SEX SELLS

So... for my writing class the assignment is about media manipulation. All of the senses that advertisers appeal to to make us feel ungood and unready. Under dressed, and out of style. Too old or too young... i mean, you pick. In the end however... we cave and buy whatever product it is that's going to make us feel good about ourselves again.

Well... i couldn't just pick some hot guy standing half naked with an orgasmic look on his face, and describe how that all was selling a shoe. No... not me.

I've decided to twist this around a bit. I've scanned an add i found in Spin magazine. Yes you can even see my bad rip job and where i've tried to piece it all back together.

Regardless... the ad is for the World Food Program. I am manipulated by the media this time around, not by sex. And not by things that i'm going to buy that are supposed to make me feel good about me but never ever do.... This time i am manipulated by a little boy. he looks a bit angry at me. He looks like he needs help. He's looking a bit like he may be casting blame on me for buying the damn pair of jeans that my ass doesn't really look all that great in anyway. I could have been doing something better with my time and money, couldn't i have?

And so i am spinning this project around in my teachers face. Perhaps not all media manipulation is such a horrible and grotesque thing. Go me!