The Hills 3

On this weeks show, it was the same old drama. Hiedi of course was the main source of this drama. It was her brithday and so she thought it was okay to be a total bitch to Audrina. Spencer which is a player wanna be is the reason for her being so mean. Hiedi is a jealous insecure girl who doesn't have the self confidence to talk things over with Aundrina. She uses her inability to communicate with people to make what she does right. I think that she needs to focus more on herself rather than her boyfriend and his infedelity. Lauren of course is stuck in the middle because she is friends with both Hiedi and Audrina, and Hiedi doesn't like that too much. I think that since the girls are in the real world they need to be a little more mature and leave the high school drama, in high school, and grow up a bit.

Wed. Reading

As I read through the essay on stereotypes and advertisement, I was surprised to see how insecure white americans are. We love to hurt people and make them feel inferior to us. We use the stereotypes of Asain americans, african americans, and hispanic americans, to sell products. It pathetic that even after the Civil Rights Movement we are still having to deal with stereotypes, and racial slurs. Although it was stated that laws have been helping the minorities and that stereotyping in advertisement is nearly gone, it is still there in some form or another. White americans are too insecure to sell the real product that rely on the racist and insecure people to buy a product only because it has a racial slur or a durogatory saying in the catch phrase. It was also interesting to see which company used this for their benefit. Cream of Wheat and Aunt Jemima were the 2 most shocking, to me. I love aunt Jemima and her pancakes, not because she is african american but because her darn pancakes are good. Cream of Wheat, although I think it is nasty, it has been around for like ever, and to see that they haven't learned anything over the years is ridiculuos.

The Hills 2

Last night on The Hills, I learned that even rich people have problems. On the show Lauren's best friend Heidi is like her evil twin. She isn't really evil just a really bad role model for girls in the real world to follow. On the show she decided to trick her ex boyfriend who by the way is a cheater into thinking she was pregnant, just to see what he would do. First of all lets not get knocked up, and second of all he cheated once he will cheat again, even if you're pregnant. A good example would be Lauren of course, who broke up with her boyfriend and instead of dwelling and tricking him she got over him. She doesn't have to make herself look bad for guys to like her and she doesn't beg for their attention. Also, I was recently informed on how Lauren got her internship, of course she got it through MTV, which upset a ton of people. All in all it just goes to show you that even the rich people who you think have everything, dont always have EVERYTHING, like self-respect.

Hanes Her Way

For this weeks readin there was an essay written by a student about an advertisement. The title was hanes her way. Although the essay was well written there were some outragous statements made in her essay. For example, the author stated that the gentlemen in her advertisement looked into the laundry hamper and saw a worn pair of underwear and it reminded him of his mother and his childhood. I dont have any idea as to what would make a man think of his mother while looking at not only a dirty, worn pair of underwear, but his girlfriends underwear at that. I believe that he needs to reevaluate his relationship with his girlfriend and his mother because there is something extremely wrong with that picture. Another wierd statement was the fact that the women in the commercial was apparently wearing granny panties, I dont know why the advertisers would make granny panties a main product to sell because sex sells in America. I figure that if you want to be successful in the advertising business you would utilize sex and make women feel sexier in the clothes you were trying to sell. I dont want to go out and by Hanes underwear because when Im 40 they will look nice in a laundry basket, or because they will look nice even when they are worn and dirty. Some commercials confuse me and make me a like sick to my stomach.

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