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Discuss “Discussion on GLBT portay in advertising”

You click on the TV and watch as an attractive young woman gets ready: racy shots of her garter belt and thigh high stockings, even a corset.

When she enters a restaurant, the men gawk at her. The television screen flashes to shots of her in just her undergarments ? extrapolations made by the men. When she reaches her table at the restaurant, the text on the television screen wonders: ?Do men deserve it?? When the woman sits down and kisses the woman sitting beside her, full on the lips, the screen answers: ?No.?

You?ve just witnessed what Mike Wilke calls a positive portrayal of gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender (GLBT) people in commercials. Why positive? Well, as Wilke explained last Wednesday, in commercials similar to the one described...

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