Comparison Of Male And Female Bodies In Advertising

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How are male and females bodies are viewed today on magazine or ads? Do people look just at what they want to look at or do people look at the whole picture? Sometimes who’s ever on the magazines people just want to look at what ever pops out to them. It can be either male body 's, females body 's, males clothing or females clothing. Another view on things can be movies. Every romantic movie has a least one handsome male with a six pack and a beautiful girl with a nice skin tone and nice legs. For females to see a male with six pack abs they would want to be in there shoes because they find that attractive. For the males it 's a different side of it. They would want to be his shoes because the male has a six pack abs, and be with a beautiful …show more content…
But he is not the only one that feels uncomfortable because there plenty of other males that sees this advertisement. And the first thing that comes to their mind is why is he posing like this or why does he just have on his underwear with a sweater? That’s the male 's point of view of how they see other males on an advertisement. And I am one of them males that don’t want to see another male in his underwear.
However, Susan Bordo and other female 's reaction of looking at males advertisement are not the same as males point of views of themself. Susan Bordo point of view on males advertisement was there legs in Beauty (Re) discovers the Male Body article (4). “Men legs make me weak to the knees. Mens legs? I knew woman legs were supposed to be sexy. I learn that from all those hose-straightening scenes in movies. But men legs? “ Whatever the case is about the male 's advertisement is very attractive to females, and to females that like legs such as Susan Bordo.
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This male is not a in a pose that he feels uncomfortable doing but he is leaning back and being himself. His reaction is just sitting back and relaxing enjoying the nice weather with his new clothes own. Other females will find this attractive but to me he just doing nothing but have a straight face. Susan Bordo will find this attractive a lot more than me because she like to see other male legs and she find that attractive. Which she is supposed to because males like me that are straight should only keep their point of views on certain at a certain level. While the females have their point of views and comments of how they see this

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