"Two ways a woman can get hurt"

I agree with most of what Kilbourne is saying in this section taken from her book. I definitely believe that the way women are portrayed in ads contributes to violence towards women. I think one of the most important things that she mentioned was that men are encourage to not take no for an answer. I think that is a huge problem, and can lead to sexual harassment. Some guys probably do not even realize that it is harassment because they think that they should not take no for an answer and the girl is not being serious. I've actually seen this happen. I really like when the author talked about how it is ok for little boys to say sexual things about older women and to look up their skirts, but if little girls acted that way, we would think there was something wrong with them. I had never thought about that before but it is so true!

There were a couple of things that I did not agree with that Kilbourne said. One was when she was talking about how a man was acquitted of rape charges against a woman, and Kilbourne thought that it could have partially been because the jury was made up of mostly women. She said that women can be especially cruel judges of other women's sexual behavior which she said was because we are so desperate to believe that we are in control of what happens to us. I do not think that a mostly female jury would want to acquit a man with a history of violence because they were cruel judges. I think women would be sympathetic, some of them probably had been sexually abused and they knew what it was like. They have to be cautious in their every day lives , so that it does not happen to them. I would have been more sympathetic because I am a girl.

Overall, I really enjoyed reading this section of Kilbourne's book. I thought she made some really good points and made me think about things that I had not thought about before.