Lego,

Each time I turned on the TV, read a magazine, or see a billboard I see extremely sexual images of females. It was women's desire to 'express their sexuality' that has led to the saturation of sexual images in our culture. If men try to say that something is indecent they are accussed of 'oppressing women'. We now live in a feminised society. It is women who decide what they wear. They do it for themselves not for men.

Yet you only talk about further restricting men's behaviour? Our society is jusy completely incapable of asking women to take any sort of responsibility for their actions.

The research is completly rubbish. It doesn't try to uncover a truth; it tries to provide evidence to push an ideological agenda. You are an advocate quoting from other advocates in Universities. Pointless.

Hi Dane.

I did not advocate banning men’s magazines, and I repeated that point in my second post.

I would disagree with your assertion that the sexualized advertising that you see every day is the fault of women, most advertising executives are men. Women’s groups have constantly complained of the sexualized images being depicted. Here in Sydney, a furore erupted over one billboard, witch displayed a scantily dressed famous young model with a cockatoo on her shoulder, above the blazing banner headline “She Loves a Cockatoo!”

Women’s groups have also complained about the Hollywood inspired ideal of the perfect female figure (size 6) which some young girls literally starve themselves to attain.

What constitutes correct values, attitudes and behaviours is no longer being created by the community, it is being created by manufacturers and their advertising men. Not surprisingly, the values that they are imparting into our children’s minds is entirely to their own benefit.

The pop music industry is a glaring example of that. Do you think that kids should take drugs? Use weapons to solve personnel problems? Tell young girls it is cool to dress in a sexually provocative way and act the whore? Tell young boys that girls are just “hoes and bitches” who swoon over the attentions of a violent man? Do you think young boys should be told how great it is to rape their mother’s? If you don’t, why do you tolerate an industry which constantly repeats these messages to adolescents, who are at their most rebellious and vulnerable stage in life?

Mixing erotic images with statements suggesting that women are all sluts who deserve to be raped is a very dangerous thing to do. Most young men who are well socialized can laugh at these statements and understand that they are simply outrageous statements meant to entertain. But some young men are not real bright and are poorly socialized, and they may consider such statements confirm their fantasy that women who act or dress in certain ways want to be raped, and the community thinks that they deserve it if they are raped

When GoMags come with Nag-around-Sound and Smell-o-Vision they will be far more interesting and far less likely to create evil demons in the minds of men.

Women actually believe they are about to RULE planet Earth as they are gaining EQUAL RIGHTS and gaining the "free-drinks" double-chick-dip and getting the "enough-kids-that-I-own-YOUR-house" judgement.

In reality Women have just been rebranded & repackaged by the stock market GURUS (comprising women and men entrepreneurs) as a conduit to impoverish the POOR and make the RICH richer. From birth to divorce women spend more money on non-essential goods. NOW and on the way, women entangle and force (by deception) young men to do the same thing. After the divorce, Governments and Lawyers take at least 1/3 of the combined marriage wealth and that figure is set to RISE as the stock market falters in traditional areas such as mining.

An important part of keeping this "Rich V Poor" insanity running is deception about what women really are and what they really want -POWER!

To that end GoMags are the ultimate deception. The current boardroom and stock market sentiment is that "the less young men know about women, the better economies will boom and the more stable "rich-friendly" world governments will become"

Personally I detest LIES, DECEPTION AND RICH people who LACK MERIT.

Bring on GoMags with Nag-around-Sound and Smell-o-Vision!

Lego,
If someone wants to see consumerism and commercialisation, look no further than a woman's magazine.

Nothing of any reliability or educational value will be contained within, and the inane articles and gossip that appeal so much to the modern woman, are simply fill between the advertisements.

The vast majority of the editors and writters at such magazines are female.

However, your logic that media for men should be the only media that should change, highlights feminist bigotry, narrow-mindedness and gender prejudice.

I tend to think that few feminists have objected to the consumerism and commercialisation contained in women's media, because most of the money women spend has been money earnt by someone else, mainly males.

Or it is money grabbed from the taxpayers, who are mainly males anyway.

Lego,

Your comment that most advertising executives are male is just trite. We have a female PM and G-G by extention should we just blame them for everything?

You comments about feminists groups are true. How do you reconcile the views of feminist groups with the evidence we see every day on the street? Be careful - we wouldn't want you draw any obvious conclusions like feminists are just out of touch with mainstream women. The fact is that for women sex is power. They like it and want it. They have all of it.

Do you think women should take any responsibility or are they just helpless victims?

Re-assessing men's magazines?

A storm in a teacup. There are various forms of
communication that can reach a large audience
without any personal contact between the senders and
the receivers of the messages. Newspapers, books,
television, radio, movies, DVDs, CDS, magazines.
So much diversity. We take this barrage so much for
granted. An individual may be influenced by many
other agents of socialization - religious groups,
family, schools, universities, peer groups, they all
affect people to a certain extent. There's also
agents such as corporations, other employers and
voluntary associations like clubs, political movements
and even retirement homes as people get older.

Personality and behaviour are never entirely stable, they
change under the influence of all these socialisation experiences
throughout one's life course. Men's magazines may serve
a certain limited purpose during a certain period of time
in someone's life - but other things come into play in time.
Few people take them seriously for long.