Paper #1 Outline
In today’s society men are pressured to live up to certain expectations, such requirements are what moles them and helps them become what the ideal male figure is. Simple thing like from the way they sit to the kind of jobs and pass times they are allowed to have are subliminally passed on to them by the media and the everyday life that surrounds them. In my advertisement the caption itself says a lot “You can wait for luck to find you or you can make your own” it goes on by saying “Find your luck at Caesars, book your stay today.” But the picture itself says 1,000 words.
If we take a step back for a minute and look around at the advertisements we’ll see that the male figure is always posing in a “caught me doing something” pose and if there are any female in the advertisement we’ll see that they are mostly sitting around standing up or just looking pretty for the viewers to glace upon it’s as if female roles are not important enough as male roles that even in simple advertisement sexism is in the propaganda. In my ad the guys are playing a game of poker and the females are sitting around are standing just looking at the guys play. The rest of the ad has a female laying in bed with very few clothes on and a bunch of gifts on top of her.
From first look it may just seem like nothing but if you think about it you never see any ad where the male figure is laying in bed top less with all the gifts on top of him in a very sexual pose, you won’t even find advertisements in which a casino has females playing poker and the men all around them as if they were the good luck charms. What you will find is females being showered in gifts by men the ad will normally have them coming out or walking into a very prestigious store and the male models will be paying for everything with a facial expression of “money is not a problem for me” and the female models will have the expression of “OMG ! He is such a good guy because he has money and can buy me things”. The reality is that in today’s world men and women both can work and buy themselves what they’d like all it takes it a little bit of effort in per suing what one wants for him or herself.
The over look or view that society has on how things are not very accurate. The message they send out about female is that they only like men with money, and all men should be able to buy females gifts and that how the magic between sexes works. But what happens to the men that don’t have money and the females that don’t fall for the money bags are they living a wrong life style. I guess the advertisement company’s don’t think people can live a life out of the common believe of what is and is not the right way to live. Maybe if the advertisement company’s display a more realistic outlook on what really happens on a day to day bases there sales won’t be so high so the illusion of a utopian society fills up the minds of the buyers because it sounds more believe just like fairy tales and unicorns such things don’t exist but the harsh reality is too much for some people to handle that they hide behind an idea an illusion.
We can change the world from such guide lines by changeing the way we do things today. This is a cause that will not only help us but it will allow us to better our self's and our futures by the small baby steps we embrace today. By breaking the chain's that has been passed on to us by our fore fathers will learn how to value people for who and what they really are it's small steps like this that will set the path for equality and a more suitable enviorment rather than a hostile habitat that will only make things worst in the long run, it's not that difficult to preside the wrong that might happen, all we have to do is look back into the lives of people before us and our time to see what extreme conditions people were willing and are willing to go to all because of lack of education.
We can change the world from such guide lines by changeing the way we do things today. This is a cause that will not only help us but it will allow us to better our self's and our futures by the small baby steps we embrace today. By breaking the chain's that has been passed on to us by our fore fathers will learn how to value people for who and what they really are it's small steps like this that will set the path for equality and a more suitable enviorment rather than a hostile habitat that will only make things worst in the long run, it's not that difficult to preside the wrong that might happen, all we have to do is look back into the lives of people before us and our time to see what extreme conditions people were willing and are willing to go to all because of lack of education.
This is actually the first draft of your paper, which is great as you are ahead of the game :)
ReplyDeleteBut your Blog Post #2: The Outline for the Paper is still incomplete. Please return to that post and make the necessary changes.
Jacquline,
ReplyDeleteYou make wonderful observations about how advertisement suspend reality and make the consumers desire the product, even if it is presented in a sexist and unrealistic manner. The contrast you undertake in body paragraph one and two, to show how men and women are portrayed as active participants and passive ornaments, respectively is wonderful. But, and I stated this in my previous comment which I posted yesterday, it would be helpful to you, as a writer, to first construct an outline and then compose an essay based on that outline. The reason I stress this, and the outline for this paper is a required blog assignment, is because your essay lacks a thesis and your analysis is more focused on general aspects of advertisements ‘subliminal sexist propaganda’, as you aptly point out, rather than on the analysis of the ad you selected for this paper. Also it is unclear what you mean by “my ad”? What is the product? Which casino? As an exercise, read your first draft and extract from it the components required for the outline.
This is a very good draft, but its missing some little thing that would make it better. For instance in your intro you could include the message of what type of masculinity your ad is suppose portray. Also in your second paragraph you talk about how men always are performing some kind of action/task in ads while women for the most part just pose. If you could add a quote from the reading "beauty (re)discovers the male body" by Susan Bordo, where she goes into how "men act and women appear" that would make the paragraph stronger, also you kind of go into the same topic in the third paragraph witch would make your second paragraph even better. In another paragraph go into the casino scene and poker, and how those two things make men feel manly, for example how poker is an excuse for guys to get away from their wifes to hang out with their guy friends, drink beer, and smoke cigars, you know manly things.
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