Perhaps one alternative is to require that schools have a career long "media" course that starts at an early age. Understanding how media outlets work and that they are, in fact, an industry with a focus on profits would be helpful for every citizen to understand. Moreover, that may start to change the way that media sources advertise and present themselves to consumers.

Failing that, I will certainly try and teach my children why they see certain images on TV and in magazines and what those images are attempting to get them to do (buy things). At least this way we are able to have a society in which free speech is valued (totally agree here) but are able to change the behavior of the consumers of speech. Hopefully that will change the type of expression we see through media sources.

Perhaps. I think there may be a difference between what reasonable agree upon for ethical behavior and what society has done to sexualize women, especially. I would agree that it is politically challenging, though.

That's a good point, the article did seem a little vague about the content of the class. I think I just reacted to the phrase "rape prevention" and was concerned that it was about avoiding rape and how to not rape people as opposed to the real issue of people becoming nothing more than sex objects.

I would rather schools teach a class about how to not treat other people as objects. Though that may not be a realistic step that society can make.