What's wrong with our society- Sexual Violence Unit in Health

I will never understand the way that society is. We just watched a video on how media influences behavior including sexual violence. Many of the ads the lady put up were very offensive to me, and yet, society accepts them and even deems them as normal. They're ads. Because the topic was on how media sexualizes women, most of the pictures were of scantily clad women, most of them in underwear or naked (w/ their parts covered up "of course!"). Many of them were also showing off their busts or their "hiney". It was very disgusting and disturbing to me. What upset me more, is that everyone seems to be ok with it because it's EVERYWHERE!!!

Not only that, but the ads were very sexist, and even racist. The only time a woman was pictured taller or higher tan a man was if race was involved. The ads with the women covering their mouths, or worse, their mouths sewed shut, portray the sickness in our society for women to "shut up". The Latina and African American women were portrayed worse. The speaker pointed out that in ads, the non-white women were portrayed wearing animal skins, or with animal features photoshoped in, saying that the ads are saying they're only animals. The speaker also said something about one company, (I think it was Calvin Kline) and because of how young the models they used were, and how they sexually made them pose, their ads were almost like child porn!

And yet this is widely accepted as the norm. When did our society become so involved in, and revolved around, degrading humans? Our brothers and sisters? Our family, our friends? Our neighbors? Why do we think it's okay to dehumanize??? (The ironic thing is, the more you try to dehumanize someone else, the more you are really degrading and dehumanizing yourself.) This behavior, and attitude, I've noticed, is common throughout America, and perhaps throughout the world in it's entirety. Americans think they're the best, they're number 1, they're above everyone else (and when I say 'Americans', I mean mainly white-born-in-America Americans). Many, not all Americans have adopted this sick attitude, just because they were born with privelage.

(I guess according to this picture, we are #1. Just not what we wanted.)