In Douglas Quenqua’s article for The New York Times, “Muscular Body Image Lures Boys Into Gym, and Obsession”, Quenqua focuses on young boys and the risks they are willing to face in order to achieve a chiseled body. This isn’t the first time that Quenqua has written about body image. Douglas Quenqua also wrote the article “Tell Me, Even if it Hurts Me” for The New York Times. Quenqua writes about culture, science, media, lifestyle, and dogs.
To begin with, Douglas Quenqua’s audience in “Muscular Body Image Lures Boys Into Gym, and Obsession” is a neutral and well educated. This article was written toward a general audience. The intended audience was not specifically weightlifters. This can be shown in the passage through its explanations of what supplements are. The average weightlifter would already have general knowledge of this subject. The audience of The …show more content…
This study shows that of the boys in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area that lift weights “Thirty-eight percent said they used protein supplements, and nearly 6 percent said they had experimented with steroids”(Quenqua). This study is accurate for that specific area but not necessarily accurate nationwide. Quenqua tried to ease any doubt that the readers may have that this study is not an accurate representation of the entire nation by using another appeal to authority. In paragraph seven he uses a quote from Dr. Harrison Pope, who was specifically mentioned to not be part of that study, to assure the readers that this study only supports the fact that “There has been a striking change in attitudes toward male body image in the last 30 years”(qtd. in Quenqua). Quenqua has very little, weak support that the survey is an accurate representation of the nation as a whole, and no support other that the authority of the speaker that male body image has changed in the last thirty
To begin with, Douglas Quenqua’s audience in “Muscular Body Image Lures Boys Into Gym, and Obsession” is a neutral and well educated. This article was written toward a general audience. The intended audience was not specifically weightlifters. This can be shown in the passage through its explanations of what supplements are. The average weightlifter would already have general knowledge of this subject. The audience of The …show more content…
This study shows that of the boys in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area that lift weights “Thirty-eight percent said they used protein supplements, and nearly 6 percent said they had experimented with steroids”(Quenqua). This study is accurate for that specific area but not necessarily accurate nationwide. Quenqua tried to ease any doubt that the readers may have that this study is not an accurate representation of the entire nation by using another appeal to authority. In paragraph seven he uses a quote from Dr. Harrison Pope, who was specifically mentioned to not be part of that study, to assure the readers that this study only supports the fact that “There has been a striking change in attitudes toward male body image in the last 30 years”(qtd. in Quenqua). Quenqua has very little, weak support that the survey is an accurate representation of the nation as a whole, and no support other that the authority of the speaker that male body image has changed in the last thirty