- Question 1: Bordo takes time throughout her essay describing and giving many details about the points she is making. She takes extra time to give a lot of examples to fully explain her ideas. Throughout the essay we see not only many Calvin Klein ads but also other adds that emphasize her points in each section. Bordo also breaks down her essay into sections, which allows her to fully explain and help the reader understand her ideas. Her writing is a little too in depth for my liking but I did like how she explained her writing with so much detail that it made you really think about the points she was trying to make.
- Question 2: Bordo breaks her essay down into sections to introduce her new ideas to the reader. She first introduces the new ideas. Then throughout the rest of the sections she elaborates about her idea and gives examples to support her points. After explaining the examples and her thoughts she then finishes by proposing a question that makes us think and ponder about the ideas she has presented to us.
- Question 3: In her first section Bordo talks about how women have defined their sexuality on whether or not they are approved by an onlooker. Women are by no means any less feminine if they get their approval from someone else’s opinion, but a man is less masculine when he defines himself from someone else’s opinion. She says that our culture has made it okay for a women to be an object of disapproving or approving eyes, but men cannot be a true men when they are subjecting themselves to gazes of others.
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