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In "Media, Men Should Stop Objectifying Women" by Joanna Rothenberg, Rothenberg caught my attention by comparing women to beer bottles. Rothenberg argues that people accept women's seductive portrayal as something accepted in culture. She pulls in the reader by providing examples of advertisements that included women posing seductively advertising a product that is not relevant to the product. She made me realize that with women being portrayed a certain way in the media can cause women to think of themselves as objects that need to be a certain set of beauty. Her argument is pretty persuasive but I disagree when she suggests "But until the media starts to take women seriously, not as objects but as real people with real thoughts and feelings, I fear realistic representation is too far off," and when she mentions that women go exercising for a chance to escape the world and men take advantage of the opportunity to honk or whistle. I have to disagree because most women run to stay fit and to please the media's perception of beauty. By them exercising for the media's ideals it allows the media to choose the idea of beauty and continue to define it. If women want the media to take them serious I suggest women first start with themselves. Women should not let the images they see on TV or the media get to women's "thoughts and feelings." If women are "supposedly" these strong individuals then they will not let the thoughts of others perceptions on what you have to look like in this society get to them. I do agree with Rothenberg on the part of advertisement and I could see how these arguments can be persuasive to women, specifically teenagers.