This brings me to another reading question which I believe coincides with the previous subject. When Kilbourne claims that pop culture idealizes dangerous, exploitative, or dysfunctional relationships between men and women, I still think of the Kardashian family. Lets back track a little and think about how this family got famous. The mother Kris Jenner was the former wife of O.J Simpsons attorney Robert Kardashian. That was their first claim to fame, and then to blow things up even more is when Kim Kardashian had a celebrity sex tape released with rapper Ray J. After that tape came out there was so much publicity involved and advertisers jumped up and endorsed Kim Kardashian to many beauty products and now many young women look up to her. To relate to the sex tape to normal culture is that pornography is being more acceptable and it causes more women to be involved and linked to taboo sex acts. Speaking from experience growing up and talking and courting women I would be involved with girls that were typically what you would call "goody two shoes" and safe women. But after getting to know them sexually the women were very turned on by the taboo sex acts of being treated like crap or what you would say not traditional sex. I would think is that after these celebrity videos get exposed many other girls get interested in those type of things.
Before this gets out of hand and I rant on further I would like to share another example of how pop culture can Idealized dangerous relationships. Very recently a man, Jeremy Meeks(pictured below) was arrested in Stockton, CA with FELONY weapons charges and when his mugshot was posted online, it went viral. And what I mean by that is women were literally flocking to him and commenting on the picture talking about how he was too sexy to go jail. And some women were even offering to pay his bail so they could get a chance with him completely disregarding that this man could be very bad because he is a felon. Since the photo got so much publicity the man even got offered a modeling contract! Also on other social media networks like twitter and instagram people created a hashtag #feloncrushfriday! This is a great example how Americans value as a culture and how popular culture idealizes dangerous, exploitative, or dysfunctional relationships between women and man.