False Analogy

In “The Fashion Industry: Free to be an Individual” by Hannah Berry, Hannah emphasizes how social media especially advertisements pressure females to use certain product to in order to be considered beautiful. She also acknowledges the current effort of advertisement today to more realistically depicts of women. In addition, these advertisements use the modern women look to advertise products to increase women self-esteem and to encourage women to be comfortable with one’s image.

The logical fallacy identified in question five is False Analogy. False Analogy is a false comparison between two objects or two different points of view. In the cartoon two men are sitting next to each other in their cars. One of them is a member of the National Regulatory Authority that says “Guns don’t kill people do” and the other one is a drug dealer that says, “Drugs don’t kill people do”. This cartoon actually comes across comical because both of them are obviously going to have two different points of view. These two analogies are not something you can really compare because we have constitutional rights to bear arms, but drugs do not have constitutional rights. It is like comparing oranges to apples. They are two completely unrelated topics. However they can both be dangerous, but drugs and guns do not serve the same purpose. They are two completely different subjects.

In our society today a business is not a business without an advertisement. These advertisements advertise what American’s want and desire in their lives. According to Jack Solomon in his essay, “Master’s of Desire: The Culture of American Advertising,” Jack Solomon claims: “Because ours is a highly diverse, pluralistic society, various advertisements may say different things depending on their intended audiences, but in every case they say something about America, about the status of our hopes, fears, desires, and beliefs”(Solomon). Advertisers continue to promote the American dream of what a women’s body should look like. They advertise their products in hopes for consumers to buy them, so they can look like the models pictures in the ads. Behind these ads, advertisers tend to picture flawless unrealistic woman with the help of Photoshop. In our society today to look like a model is an American dream and can be the reasons why we fantasizes and buy these products being advertised. “America’s consumer economy runs on desire, and advertising stokes the engines by transforming common objects;signs of all things that Americans covet most”(Solomon).

They try to play sexual emotions in advertisement. They show an attractive woman and a bottle of beer. They try and make it seem that if you drink their product that you can get this type woman. Also they try and use the emotions of the females talking about how a decent looking woman can become very attractive It also seems to draw onto girls that have a lower self esteem. Showing that you will become a much happier person if you are good looking and dressed very sexually, than if you are not the best of looking person.

when you see men and women modeling their bodies in magazines can make these people who are self conscious feel bad about themselves. With most models being very thin, they should have a few bigger models to use in magazines. One of these people who are self conscious see them and think so it's not impossible to be one of the people in the magazines. A lot of the time in magazines they are selling the models and not the product. What is meant by that is so when these models show off these products it’s making the product attractive. The people who are seeing the models that have self conscious issue don't realize that sometimes the people in the magazines aren't real and have edited things about the picture they posed for. Beleive how the people who auditioned and didn't get the job feel. A lot of the time girls and boys are affected by image stuff but when they try to reach out and get help their parents don't want to come to the realization of all of

For example, some girls rely on those magazine for information on beauty and fashion, their standards of beauty are followed by those cover models. Also, there is one scholar stated that marketing strategies attempted to lure readers into purchasing one idea that they would look better, their sense of self appearance had been changed. (Sarkar 2014) To support this idea, one research pointed out that audiences are affected by those magazine models, and some teenage girls try to emulate them (Sanders 2009).

The media has brought forward many deceiving images of models and famous Hollywood stars. These images of

Type and imagery play a very important role in captivating the viewers attention, as well as altering how you interpret things. The Women’s Health magazine uses this strategy to draw viewers in by connecting health and being sexy. This particular magazine used sexually revealing photographs as well as making the word sexy dominant enough to allow one to assume that the magazine is trying to say that if you want to look and feel sexy like this model, then you must read our information. Which is altering the women’s minds to maybe purchase the magazine due to low self esteem or other reasons, whether the viewer knows that's the message or not. Before purchasing or falling victim to these articles, you must view and read the media more carefully to get a better understanding of the message as a

According to Brown.edu “People with negative body image tend to feel that their size or shape is a sign of personal failure, and that it is a very important indicator of worth” (paragraph 8). We always see in the media how women are portrayed as they should look a certain way in order to meet society's’ needs. In magazines such as OK! and Life&Style show celebrities on the front cover that say “I’M BACK IN A BIKINI!” or “HOW I GOT THIN FAST”. These magazines make women reflect on their body image because they wonder how celebrities can look like that and they do not. When a woman is displeased about her body image, negative thoughts may come to her mind. Such as eating disorders, depression, and individual harm.This advertisement is a prime example of how women view themselves negatively, and are losing their self esteem due to the media. The way that others viewed them showed them that maybe the perspective of how they think about themselves is not always

One might look at this piece of advertisement and think to themselves, “Wow that is an extremely ugly advertisement.” or they’ll say to their friend next to them, “Hey look at this ridiculous ad.” There’s no in-between. There’s no debating here, this ad is one of the most unappealing pieces of so-called artwork to exist. It doesn’t even try to look appealing it’s just plain out obnoxious. Look at all that pink, and they’re not even the same shade of pink! Horrendous. While one, who are we kidding here it’s everyone, might make a remark about the unattractiveness of it, they’re still making a remark about it. And that thirty second conversation about this ad to someone else is thirty seconds of extra advertisement. That conversation will slip

Imagine you are at your local grocery store and you look at the magazine rack. It features the latest GQ Magazine. Nothing seems out of the ordinary. The covers for magazines usually showcase half dressed women. At first glance, you may think that it is made the way it’s made just to make you stop and look, but is it more to it than that? According to John Berger, Publicity us a competitive medium that benefits the consumer. Magazine advertisements use this to keep society in a competition with each other. The GQ cover uses the glamour of Kate Upton to do just that.

I say this because everything you see during the ad has been modified to entice the viewer and persuade them to buy their product. For example the women shown during the advertising had foundation and they used camera’s that changed the perception of their face.

There is a possibility that magazine advertisements are doing more harm to society than good, women magazines like Glamour and Cosmopolitan for many years feature stories and models that are negatively influencing women. Umi Khattab claims that "As argued by social constructivists, advertisers draw on signs and their associated meaning in order to construct a pre-determined identity that is deemed suitable for the target audience and the product being sold to them. Women are not being sold cosmetics or clothing, they are being sold a constructed identity based upon the desires and values of an assumedly mainstream national-global audience." (Khattab 11). When some women read the women magazines they tend to compare themselves to the thin models who are usually featured in the magazines, some of the body image issues that many women and girls suffer from are due to the comparison they make when they read magazines that is about losing too much weight to be thin. While most times women magazines focuses on how to apply makeup and what kind of make-up to avoid or buy, in men's magazines especially the ESPN magazines, the focus on those magazines does not certain around how men should dress, wear make-up probably, or how to

Part One: Overall, the argument presented is strong however, it is not without flaw. The first place we see this is in the last sentence of paragraph one “Although, having a positive body image is good, it does not outweigh the negative consequences brought about by the normalization of obesity.” The assertion made here, dismisses the psychological harm brought about by a negative body image. For example, the prevalence of eating disorders in American women that can bring about equal health risks. Moving forward, it could be argued that the author makes a false analogy throughout paragraph one by comparing the health risks of smoking to the health risks of obesity. Furthermore, even in the absence of the false analogy the assertions made about both the health risks of both lack any academic backing, consequently, many readers will dismiss the argument immediately. Paragraph three, makes the assumption that readers adopt a utilitarian moral view. Due to this, readers who do not hold this view are neglected. In the third paragraph, the author again makes a generalization about the reader; he assumes that the reader knows that BMI stands for body mass index. By not making this clear, the reader may become confused. Throughout the entirety of the essay the author, speaks as if the ideal body type is one that is obese, and it isn’t until the final paragraph that it is even mentioned that the current and most prominent standards of beauty are (for women anyway) ultra-thin body types. It could be argued that this is irrelevant and that the

Furthermore, the advertisement is changing the perception of beauty to help redefine the definition of attractiveness. Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, an author, mentioned in one of her books that “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder” This phrase is very significant because it is true. Everyone has a different perception of beauty. Some people may