Blog #15-Gendered Voices in Children's Ads

"First, ads for kids serve as training for consumer culture.....through ads, kids learn that products for sale offer life style enchancements, fun, peer group status, and up-to-date coolness..." This quote taken from the article is so right on...My little cousin for example thinks that he has to have every new toy that comes out and he sees this from the commericals that are aimed at training to want new and bigger and better things....I feel as though it is shameful to even think that we need to have "toys or fill in the blank" just to fit into a group. Our peer status shouldn't have to revolve around what "new" thing that we got at the store, but we are suckers for spending our money and buying things that we do not need.