Jenna Jameson

My pornography paper was about Jenna Jameson.  Who is a famous porn star that made millions off of branching herself into a more marketable media.  She accomplished this by publishing a book titled, "How to Make Love like a Porn Star", she also has several products, other films non-porn related, and magazines. I found a video clip from when Jenna was on the Oprah Winifred show.  It was in 2009 and by this time she had her twins boy and quit the business.  Though she still profits from the pornography and has the means to take care of her boys, she still finds it hard to someday tell them she was a porn star.  In other interviews I have watched with her in them, she was never ashamed of her line in work.  She just is not sure how to tell her children about how she made her millions.

http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Inside-Jenna-Jamesons-Home-Video

An Object of Beauty

Over the last couple of class periods we have been looking at images of women in the advertising world.  We have talked about how women look weak, thin, and unnatural.  Some ads have turned women into objects that are used by men or just use women as a source of power for men (we get it men are dominant, thank you advertisements for now giving men a superior complex...like they did not have that before). After looking through these advertisements, watching documentaries, and having discussion about this on going discrimination towards women in the printed media; I felt as though there was no way to change anything.  The ads are featuring products that are owned by powerful business men that want to sell this product as much as they can.  Women do not even seem to factor in world that our patriarchal system has created.

During one of our documentaries titled, "Killing Us Softly 4" the creator and speaker was a media scholar named Jean Kilbourne.  In this film she discussed the advances of media literacy in foreign countries, and how that shaped the image of women in the advertising world. I wanted to know what America was doing to change these images that girls and women are consumed by.  Then I found this commercial for Girls Inc. and all I could do is smile in hope that this is a step in the right direction...

This video made me happy to see that young women are getting the proper education they need so they do not feel like they have to compete with the ad world vision of what real beauty is.  I also looked at the Campaign For Real Beauty by Dove, and found another interesting video that fulling shows what we women face when it comes to the reality of printed ads...

I love this video because it encompasses everything we talked about in class, and how it relates to women.  I hope that one day when I have a daughter she won't have to look at images like these, but if she does I am happy to see that there are groups out there, that go against it.  These organizations are supporting young women of America by teaching them how to be self reliant and be happy in there own skin.