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    change since Susan Bordo’s “Beauty (re)discovers the male body” when it comes to acceptance for men to care about their appearance. Bordo is claiming that for a long time it has been okay for men to view revealing pictures of women‚ but that it’s new for women to view revealing pictures of men. She talks about men showing themselves naked in pictures as a taboo. Men aren’t simply comfortable watching other men without clothes. I believe it is more accepted now‚ than it was when Bordo wrote the essay

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    think that our body and our identity are somehow contradictory‚ but the reality is another. Our body and identity are both shaped by the media and influenced by some other elements of our society: friends‚ place‚ and education. We reflect what we think it is correct in the opinions of others. This idea is expanded and explained in two essays: "The Story of My Body" written by Judith Ortiz Cofer‚ and "Never Just Pictures" by Susan Bordo. In the first essay‚ Cofer suggest that our body plays an essential

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    Bordo Summary In “Beauty (Re)discovers the Male BodySusan Bordo discusses the image of the male body. She starts by talking about how “the naked and near naked female body became an object of mainstream consumption” (168) while the male body has been gone with fashion. She tells about her first time seeing an ad using the male body. It was an underwear ad for Calvin Klein underwear. Bordo explains how this ad was different from other ads in the way the guy posed. In other ads the guys pose would

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    The ideal male for women - now more feminine? Here’s one of those issues where most people usually end up with the conclusion that there is not one ideal man for all women. What can be ideal for one woman‚ might not necessarily be that for another. I personally agree‚ yet it is possible to say what most women find ideal‚ and that’s what this essay will mostly be about. According to Susan Bordo’s ’’Beauty (re)discovers the male body’’‚ the ideal male has changed through time. Calvin Klein is

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    that what we see in these ads is what the ideal man or women should look like. In the daily beast article I found online we examine the difference between some of the people who are these flawless beauties yet multiple details of their “flawless” bodies are touched up and photo shopped in very subtle ways. What type of message is the media sending if the images that are supposed to represent perfection aren’t perfect enough? Very often we see women depicted in advertisements wearing very little

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    Body image dissatisfaction is a concept that refers to a person’s negative perception of his or her own physical appearance. The negative view of the body have generally been seen as a female problem but body dissatisfaction is also very much tied to the male body image as well. The media strongly influences the way males in society perceive their own bodies by promoting the ideal male body image.Although I recognize that my own body is a product of my inability to

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    Images of the Naked Body: With the Essays of Bordo and Nochlin The naked body has become such an ordinary image in advertisements‚ movies‚ and art‚ and has been in the media for so long that it is no longer as startling to viewers as it once was. Linda Nochlin and Susan Bordo are two authors that use images and representations that embrace the naked body in their writing. Although their essays both revolve around images similar in this way‚ the images themselves as well as the two essays about

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    “Beauty (Re) Discovers the Male Body” response In “Beauty (Re) Discovers the Male Body” by Susan BordoBordo writes an analysis on the male body in advertising. Bordo discusses how in the society of advertising and fashion the male body isn’t really seen as a symbol of arousal compared to the female body. She continues saying how the naked or half-naked female body is seen as “an object of mainstream consumption” (p.299)‚ while the male boy is just beginning to be a “commercial representation”

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    Body image is what you believe about your physical appearance. Images of beautiful men and women are displayed everywhere from billboards to television advertisements. Fortunately‚ everyone does not look the same. Looking at models and movie stars often can create a negative self image of oneself in relation to these images. Approximately 46 percent of men of normal weight think about how they look constantly or frequently (Cloud‚ 46). The emergence of men’s new obsession with body image is

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    In Susan Orlean’s “The American Male at Age Ten”‚ Orlean uses humor in order to show Colin Duffy’s muddled perception of the world due to his existence in between childhood and pre-adulthood. As a ten year old‚ Colin sort of has an understanding of the world‚ however he does not yet fully grasp everything. He is in this place where he is trying so hard to be an adult‚ however his youth and naiveté gets in the way. Orlean expresses this chaotic thought through humor for the duration of her piece.

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