Problem
Analyzes the objectification images from "All-Natural Burger" commercial.
The secondary female audience who live in a world with objectifying commercials like the "All-Natural" Burger suffer body images issues that lead to health problems for women.
Advertising expert Jean Kilbourne, who specializes in analyzing the way women are depicted in television and print commercials describes how ads impact their viewers. She states: "But many people do not fully realize that there are terrible consequences when people becoming things. Self-image is deeply affected. The self-esteem of girls plummets as they reach adolescence partly because they cannot possibly escape the message that their bodies are objects, and imperfect objects at that (Kilbourne 45). The plummeting of self-esteem does not come from McKinney's direct actions in the advert. It comes from the collection of all the supermodel's collective impact on what girls think of as a normal body image. By the time kids become teenagers, they have received the subconscious message that girls must look like all the Six-Dollar Burger girls. The vulgar examples of melons and tomatoes attempt to make light of a very serious problem because when girls compare themselves to McKinney they found out they are "imperfect" in comparison. This imperfection has consequences to girl's physical health. For example, young women are 20 times more like to suffer from body image disorders like anorexia or bulimia (American Psychology Association)
Review paragraph and Answer five questions
a) Is the topic sentence effective?
b) Is the framing effective? Do you know the credibility of the expert?
c) Is the evidence effective?
d) Does the argument make reference to McKinney (the example paragraph)?
e) Is the harm process detailed?