Tuesday, September 27, 2016

AGITPROP: Serve the People!

Century of self is a movement that was both business and politics throughout their whole movement. Over the years, self worth was not part of the way we lived. We were ruled by others for many years till we finally stood up as the people. The power finally transferred to "the people". This story is about the untold story of how Britain and the United states has different ways of being social. As from the untold story, it was also about how the different ways they have advertised their products. In a way that they kept putting new ads out the open for rich people.
http://www.thepeoplehistory.com/50sclothes.html
http://www.mtlblog.com/2013/09/sophia-bush-declares-war-on-urban-outfitters/#
A very different way of a campaign was when Sophia Bush declared that 0 was not a size. When you look at new ads of Victoria Secret, H&M, or the company that Bush went against, Urban Outfitters. One of their shirts that one girl was wearing was Eat Less. Which downgrades women in all aspects. Woman are the top sex to have eating disorders. When young girls go to the mall, or a store, they think they are fat because they don't fit in any clothes that the store has.
Sometimes girls don't see it as it being promoted, they see it as, I'm to fat. I need to stop eating. Or they eat, but end up throwing up their food so they can look like the girls on VS.“You should issue a public apology, and make a hefty donation to a women’s organization that supports those stricken with eating disorders. I am sickened that anyone, on any board, in your gigantic company would have voted ‘yes’ on such a thing, let alone enough of you to manufacture an item with such a hurtful message." Bush said in an interview with MTL blog.

The two have in common by misleading their customers. They want their customers to want something, or need something. When they can't afford to buy it, or even fit in the products. In the past, they made lower class believe that they were to broke to buy any of the nice things that higher class has. In the future/nowadays, you have to starve yourself or make yourself throw up to be like society, or as you think you are.

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