Kiersten M.

Jean Kilbourne, a media critic talks about the toxicity that is in our media today, she says, " “ Just as it’s difficult to be healthy in a toxic physical environment, if we’re breathing poisoned air for example, or drinking polluted water.  So it’s difficult to be healthy in what I call a “toxic cultural environment”--an environment that surrounds us with unhealthy images and constantly sacrifices our health and our sense of well being for the sake of profit" (Kilbourne). Jean Kilbourne, a media critic, talks about how the image of women is falsified, " T he image isn’t real; it’s artificial, it’s constructed" (Kilbourne). Relating to many examples of how it affects others, how the media sees it, how it is portrayed, she relates it to how the image of the women involved are artificial and not natural.

In the video by  Anita Sarkeesian she describes the different components of how women are seen and portrayed in video games. I do not play video games, however I have seen ads in New York City and other metropolitan areas for major video games like Grand Theft Auto which is a racing game but legitimately degrades women and police officers. Although it does have a explicit rating most parents of children have no knowledge of the true meaning behind this racing game.  “ At the same time that we allow our children to be sexualized, we refuse to educate them about sex.  The United States is the only developed nation in the world that doesn’t teach sex education in the schools.  And our children pay a very high price we have the highest rates of teen pregnancy and the highest rates of sexually transmitted illnesses by far, in the developed world.” In this quote it relates to what Sarkeesian was saying, these women are portrayed so negatively that kids think its ok to be around or to im