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Jean Kilbourne is a goddess when it comes to critically analysing the media and advertising industries and their portrayal of women. Her newest book (co-written with Diane E. Levin Ph. D) So Sexy so Soon: The New Sexualized Childhood and What Parents Can Do to Protect Their Kids will be coming out August this year.
No doubt this book will live up to her previous work - including, Killing Us Softly 3 (updated in 2000), a documentary/lecture featuring advertisements that have been objectifying women from the 20th to the 21st century. Play the clip above to preview Killing Us Softly 3. Kilbourne talks about society's obsession with breasts and says that if men had the same kind of ads we would see"Wonderjock. The strap for the bulge you've always wanted" appearing in magazines.  Keeping Kilbourne's hilariously accurate observations in mind, why are we continually seeing websites showing women as objects? A new site called http://www.missbimbo.com/ lets young girls create their own Miss Bimbo! Check out the site to see phrases like, "even resort to meds or plastic surgery. Stop at nothing to become the reigning bimbo!"  Charming. I can't wait to see the new women of the world rising to become bimbo elites.