I strongly believe that it is just as important to discuss how men appear in advertising as it is to discuss how women appear in advertising. Men suffer from body image issues just as women do, often as a direct result of the bombardment of images from the media. You’ve got your total binary here: [...]
Small Strokes
cutting down oppression one small stroke at a time
Tag Archives: commercials
Teaching Feminism and Body Image: What is Dove Really Selling?
Yesterday, during a lesson on persuasive rhetorical techniques, I showed my students a number of commercials, asking them whether the technique used was Logos, Ethos, or Pathos. Along with this, I asked them what the ad was trying to sell, what it claimed about the product, if there was any bias present, etc. A friend [...]
