[Wamvan] Samuel Ramos requesting help for YWCA sexualization of women in advertising presentation

[Joanna Chiu]

See message below. Samuel knows I'm forwarding his request to the WAM
listserv, and you can either reply to the list or to him directly at
ramos.source at gmail.com.

Kalamity, I noticed that you talked about the Whitecaps ad on facebook.
Thought you might be especially interested in the YWCA project.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Samuel Ramos Roque <ramos.source at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, May 25, 2011 at 11:54 AM
Subject: Help
To: Joanna Chiu <chiu.joanna5 at gmail.com>


Hi Joanna,

Here's hoping you find yourself well.  We met briefly at the WAM conference
a couple of months ago.

You receive this message because I need a bit of help and I'm hoping you can
offer us a hand.

The YWCA will be holding its annual general meeting soon and one of the
highlights of the meeting will be a presentation about sexualization of
women in advertisement which has a negative affect on young girls.

What spurned this presentation was the latest advertisement by the whitecaps
when they had that woman with body paint on only wearing a scarf.  So now
the CEO of the YWCA would like to expand the awareness of this issue.

So what we are looking for is some images to include in the presentation.
Any and all info you may have would be much appreciated.  In specific we are
looking for the following:

- Cartoons/animation that is targeted to young girls and is (of course)
hypersexualized.  For example Bratz or the comparison of disney characters
from before compared to now.
- Clothing such as thongs and push-up bras for young girls, tshirts with
provocative language etc
and finally
- any literature targeted to young girls that basically talks about how to
dress up for your man, or how to get a perfect body.

As I mentioned before, any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

Peace~!~

-- 
Samuel Ramos Roque
Editor
The Source Newspaper
http://www.thelasource.com/
cell: 778.689.8659
office: 604.682.5545
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