Pick a magazine advertisement you'd love to tear apart. (Note: do not critique the cover of a magazine. Instead, critique an advertisement found inside a magazine.)
Write a 3pages words critique in which you explain how the advertisement's glorification of traditional gender roles keeps us in a dream state.
Must use some of the following questions as a guide: What ways of life does this advertisement make us want to envy and to possess? Is the advertisement glorifying a particular gender role or class position? According to the ad, what aspects of ourselves need improvement? How does the advertisement make a social problem (i.e. a problem caused by social inequality) out to be personal problem (i.e. a problem caused by our own inadequacies)? Does the ad include a celebrity, and if so, what qualities does the celebrity bring to the ad? What kind of fantasies does the ad sell and why does it sell them? How has the ad's aesthetics (its presentation as a work of art) lure us into wanting to buy the product? What kind of emotions does the ad sti?