Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt

"If your date won't listen to reason, try a Velvet Hammer."
"Apply generously to your neck so he can smell the scent as you shake your head 'no.'"

Are there really so many advertisements like this out there?
I don't read any magazines.
I don't know what kinds of messages are being sent and how often they are being sent.

But this is just ridiculous. I -hope- the author of this article was overexaggerating the prevalence of these kinds of ads just to prove her point.

All of the ads displayed alongside this article made me angry.
At the same time, I felt like the article lost a lot of impact because the writing was very redundant, and the organization was all over the place.
For a huge portion of the article, she is speaking about advertisements. Suddenly, she transfers over to statistics about brutality, sexual assault, and rape. Then, she talks about gender expectation some more, follows it up with anecdotes about sexual assault, and then ends with addiction.
I feel this article would be a lot stronger if she would stop repeating herself and get to the point.
I liked the overall message I took from the article, which is that the media and gender roles are having negative effects on our society, however the way in which these ideas were presented didn't sound quite credible. It was almost like an angry rant, where she randomly spliced in facts to try to sound more intelligent.

I think this piece would have been stronger if it focused solely on advertising and its relationship to violence. The anecdotes were there to try to support her theory and show it's actually reality, but the part about addiction came out of nowhere.