Rhetorical Analysis Of Male Body Image By Ted Spiker

A common misconception is that only women care about their bodies and how they look in men’s eyes. However, the author Ted Spiker shares his own experience with male body image. His main target is to convince his audience (women) that body image matter to men as it matters for women. In his article he mainly relied on pathos as an effective way to reach his audience. Throughout the article the author used “we” effectively as he is talking from the prospective of men directing his speech to women. His introduction succeeded in defining the problem by simply describing his own suffer from fats and poor body image when he was a child. In fact, the author also used ethos as evidence for each reason he mentioned. For instance, he stated that a recent