DECEPTION: Labelling Certain Ads as being Objectifying or Degrading to Women

Many feminists and others claim that many T.V. commercials, bill-boards, and other media are degrading or disrespectful to women because they hyper-sexualize them, or portray them as sex-objects.
Such ads range from women's lingerie, to fast food commercials. A scantily clad woman is shown, or a woman is shown in a sexually suggestive position or context.

TRUTH
Sex sells. Whether or not such commercials are effective or appropriate is not the issue here.
Example: Showing a woman in a sexually suggestive position to advertise a new type of spatula may be a questionable advertising tactic, but it does not warrant censorship simply because it is sexually suggestive.

Showing a well-formed woman scantily clad or even naked is not degrading to women. The only things that are truly degrading to women are the actions of other women.

If anything, such ads are exploiting and degrading to the male sex drive.
By showing half-naked women to sell products, they are in fact exploiting a man's natural desire for women, that is, they are exploiting the man's sex-drive.

BRAINWASHING:
Male heterosexuality is vilified, demonized, and exploited - all under the guise of women being the ones who are exploited.
Men getting sexually aroused by the sight of an attractive or sexually suggestive woman is a NORMAL MALE SEXUAL RESPONSE.

To suggest otherwise is bigoted and childish.

By labeling such things as degrading or disrespectful to women, they are labeling the male sex response as degrading or disrespectful to women.

COMMON SENSE WILL PREVAIL
Using images of healthy, attractive people is a commonplace advertising tactic. If showing a well-formed women is "objectifying" to them, then showing a well-formed man must be just as bad.

Where does the line get drawn?

If we show a picture of a dog eating some dog food, we are being degrading to dogs, shamelessly showing them all as being "eating objects".

This attitude obviously came from some very warped minds. One has to wonder why the male sex response is such a threat to them. Or, why healthy and attractive people are seen by them as something that must be censored.

DOUBLE STANDARD:
Billboards that show half-naked men are of course, not degrading or objectifying to men. Even images that are seriously derogatory to men are not labeled as being such.