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The Oppression of Females in Advertising: Desirable behavior is sought by people throughout the world based on how one is brought up and the expectations one is bombarded with on a daily basis. When people begin to form certain expectations in life there begin to be formed stereotypes. It is from here that advertising finds its most potent weapons. By focusing on these culturally formed stereotypes they can explicitly affect people, and by feeding on …

…it becomes frightening to think that these blatant stereotypical depiction's can be picked up in any library or drugstore for anyone to read. Of course I believe that people should be allowed to formulate their own opinions and have freedom to read and look at whatever they choose, but I feel that the people developing these advertisements should act with a little more responsibility towards society and pay more attention to what they are printing.