Visual Stereotypes

 Part A:  Analysis

The magazine that I chose was Newsweek magazine’s issue for the week of August 21-28th this year. The title of this issue was The Other Pandemic. Through this magazine, I was actually surprised at how little advertisements were included in this issue. Throughout the whole magazine there was quite a few advertisements for the magazine itself asking you to sign up for a membership. I thought that was interesting because you are already reading the magazine so it seems that that demographic doesn’t need to be targeted as much. The only other ad that is included is an ad for Harry’s of London which is an exclusively men’s shoes company. I think that this could be seen as stereotypical because there are no ads in the magazine that exclusively target women. This magazine is very intellectual and it feels like by only featuring ads that target men they have clearly left out women. 

Part B

 

I think that it is extremely difficult to get away from any stereotypes at all. However, I think that we have made a lot of progress in being able to recognize stereotypes as they come. Unfortunately though, as time and culture evolves, I think there will always be people who are prone to violence and harassment.