Never After: A Fantasy Gone Wrong
For a company whose motto claimed it as the happiest place on earth, it sure doesn’t resonate that way for most people. Published in 2011 in the Christian Science Monitor, the article, “Little Women or Little Girls” by journalist Stephanie Hanes discusses the effects of media platforms such as the Disney princess’ franchise and argues that their means of sexualization and objectification tremendously impacts the way the population of young female develops. By formulating her argument through the uses of credible data to support her claims, Hanes’ is able to build a platform to educate and aware the audience, mostly parental figures, on the causes and how to combat the growing issue of sexualization on young …show more content…
Throughout her article, Hanes included small but significant pieces of logical information to back her claims. By fusing it together with ethos, she is able to strongly connect to the audience’s side of reasoning and analytic thoughts. For example, Hanes adds a report by the Washington based center on Education and Policy which stated that “high school girls perform as well as boys on math and science tests”, and that ‘unfeminine’ sports provided benefits such as “better body images, lower pregnancy rates and higher scholastic performances” (511). These statistics helps emphasize Hanes’ point about the dangers of increased exposure to sexualization in young girls, such as how “23% of girls between the ages of 11-17 do not play sports because they do not think their body look good doing so” (511). The display of the contrasting reports exhibits the shocking impact of increased exposure adolescent girls face during their lifetime, and how the importance of femininity replaces performance as being the number one priority in the mindset of these young girls. Furthermore, Hanes includes the marketing of sexualization in mass media like the television, magazines and songs often contributes to the side effects such as low self-esteem, a decrease in intellectual performances and physical/mental health issues (512). By including the consequences, Hanes is able to convince the readers through the appeal of logics that the sexualization is more than just a casual shrug and should be taken more seriously as it is a growing problem in the
For a company whose motto claimed it as the happiest place on earth, it sure doesn’t resonate that way for most people. Published in 2011 in the Christian Science Monitor, the article, “Little Women or Little Girls” by journalist Stephanie Hanes discusses the effects of media platforms such as the Disney princess’ franchise and argues that their means of sexualization and objectification tremendously impacts the way the population of young female develops. By formulating her argument through the uses of credible data to support her claims, Hanes’ is able to build a platform to educate and aware the audience, mostly parental figures, on the causes and how to combat the growing issue of sexualization on young …show more content…
Throughout her article, Hanes included small but significant pieces of logical information to back her claims. By fusing it together with ethos, she is able to strongly connect to the audience’s side of reasoning and analytic thoughts. For example, Hanes adds a report by the Washington based center on Education and Policy which stated that “high school girls perform as well as boys on math and science tests”, and that ‘unfeminine’ sports provided benefits such as “better body images, lower pregnancy rates and higher scholastic performances” (511). These statistics helps emphasize Hanes’ point about the dangers of increased exposure to sexualization in young girls, such as how “23% of girls between the ages of 11-17 do not play sports because they do not think their body look good doing so” (511). The display of the contrasting reports exhibits the shocking impact of increased exposure adolescent girls face during their lifetime, and how the importance of femininity replaces performance as being the number one priority in the mindset of these young girls. Furthermore, Hanes includes the marketing of sexualization in mass media like the television, magazines and songs often contributes to the side effects such as low self-esteem, a decrease in intellectual performances and physical/mental health issues (512). By including the consequences, Hanes is able to convince the readers through the appeal of logics that the sexualization is more than just a casual shrug and should be taken more seriously as it is a growing problem in the