Lane Bryant's Argument Essay

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).

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Recently American Eagle’s lingerie brand, Aerie, completely changed their advertising campaign to AerieReal. The AerieReal campaign consists of only un-retouched and no Photoshopped models. Before the AerieReal campaign, Aerie used models that were retouched and Photoshopped to make the models appear skinner and “more attractive”. The AerieReal campaign’s focus is to defy what other lingerie brands, such as Victoria’s Secret, sell in their advertisements. Aerie is trying to challenge the message of true beauty is only if you are skinny by saying that “The real you is sexy”. Aerie is accomplishing this by changing their advertisements in the hopes that girls will grow up to be socialized with a more positive and inclusive message, defy gender roles associated with women, and lastly, confront stereotypes of white and colored women.

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The question was asked if I agree with the dismissal of charges? Why or why not? I understand that ever state may have different laws that they abide by. Reading over the excerpt given; I agree with the dismissal due to the fact the attorney presented facts to overturn the charges against Javonte Ellis.

Furthermore, from this debate in 1936, there has two opposing views emerged. The first one by Robert Dunn, is expressing allegiance to America and advocating for a future in America. The other one is by Kaye Hong, is expressing allegiance to and in China due to the racial prejudice in America. Although they were showing their allegiance to different country, they both made strong and positive assertions about what it means to be American born Chinese. In addition, Robert Dunn is showing his appreciation much to America although his parents have keep telling him to be profound of the “China’s four thousand years of glorious…” (60). Dunn thinks he owe much appreciation to America because it has provided an equal and fair education system for

I chose to review Lane Bryant’s “I’m no angel” commercial. It is a commercial for Cacique garments sold exclusively at Lane Bryant. The women in the commercial look like curvaceous, voluptuous, full-figured women of different ethnicities. The women are in bras and underwear stating that full-figured women are sexy. Advertisers used key words to promote their products. For example, the women in the commercial used words like “sexy” and “I’m no angel” several times. Advertisers also used close ups and movement to sell their products. They are targeting women because it is a brand for underwear, bras, and lingerie. However, they are specifically targeting full-figured women to rival the campaigns by Victoria Secret. The commercial is focused on

The question on why was T. Hall got singled out for scrutiny is not a simple one in my eyes. T. Hall may have been singled out for a number of reasons. The first being because T. Hall was crossing dressing thus causing confusing within the community. The second being T. Hall born as a hermaphrodite (or intersexed) and saw herself/himself as both a man and a woman which put him/her under more scrutiny, although this only came into light after she/he was under scrutiny . One of Last thing I understood being reading the information is because she/he would take on the roles of both a male and female at different points throughout life. This caused T. Hall’s neighbors to have a trail to try to help them with the indentation of T. Hall’s role/place

Alphonza Bryant, a seventh year old African American boy, just finish his tuxedo fitting his prom. His teachers referred to him as fashionable, loveable, and guanine helper. Nevertheless, that’s not what the police envision him the night they sadly mistaken him and his friends as gang members. This conclusion of the officer allowed him to perform a stop and frisk method. Which eventually escalated to the death of Mr. Bryant footsteps away from his home. Our law enforcement today believes the stop and frisk tactic is necessary for their public safety, however, it is discriminative, abused and could be addressed in other ways. Bryant was going to be the first in his family to go to college, yet, today Bryant’s mother remains absent of a child

Jean Kilbourne is an advocate for women and is leading a movement to change the way women are viewed in advertising. She opens up the curtains to reveal the hard truth we choose to ignore or even are too obtuse to notice. Women are objectified, materialized, and over-sexualized in order to sell clothes, products, ideas and more. As a woman, I agree with the position Kilbourne presents throughout her documentary Killing Us Softly 4: The Advertising’s Image of Women (2010) and her TEDx Talk The Dangerous Ways Ads See Women (2014.) She demonstrates time and again that these advertisements are dangerous and lead to unrealistic expectations of women.

In the United States woman can suffer from identity issues. In the year 2016 the first plus size model was shown on the cover of the swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated named Ashley Graham. Ashley Graham comes from the white ethnic background. As the issue was talked about on multiple radio and TV stations, African American woman have been speaking on this matter. A woman, Chantelle Nunes Norman, who is an African American woman posts “She's a perfect size in the African American community. It's a real shame that a lot of whites consider a starved looking woman attractive, I think she is beautiful at this size and would look sickly if she were skin and bones (Feldon)”. Many issues can come around this logic. One of the main

When researchers asked one hundred eighteen female, college-aged students to look at twenty pictures in ads from women's magazines, they felt a sudden change in mood after the pictures were observed. There was notable depression in the women, a depression that has seemed to hit many women after leafing through women's magazines (Key and Lindgren 11). This depression is due to the fact there are so many negative messages being conveyed in advertisements that are published in women's magazines. But who can blame the women for their depression anyway? When the majority of the ads in women's magazines show super-skinny models advertising nice clothes, makeup, jewelry, etc., one might find themselves to be a little down. Skinny models portray their figures to be the cultural norm in Western society today. How often does one find a model in a woman's magazine that is over a size six that is not shown advertising plus size merchandise? The answer is not very often, or sometimes never at all. If women do not see their body type being depicted in

When Victoria’s Secret is allowed to have models prance around on screen but Lane Bryant Ads (lingerie for plus size women) is banned then there’s a problem. The media is portraying these models who are thin to the point where it is unhealthy. And the media is feeding society lies. A perfect example is of Gerran Tyler. Tyler was a 12 year old supermodel. She walks the run way for clients like Marc Jacobs, Calvin Klein, and Betsey Johnson. She’s tall, thin, the perfect model because she hasn’t hit puberty yet. She walked during New York Fashion Week and posed for these designer brands advertisements. This body type is unachievable for almost all adult women (Roberts). Somebody in their twenties or thirties doesn’t have the ability to look like a twelve year old girl, but this is how these designers are telling us to look. Tyler had an amazing career and high expectations but the fame didn’t last long. As she got older and hit puberty she began to develop boobs, hips, and curves. She began getting less and less bookings. Her supermodel career was virtually over. “Eighty percent of 10-year-old American girls say they have been on a diet” and the, “Number one magic wish for young girls 11-17 is to be thinner” (Missrepresentation). This self-esteem problem with young girls is a result of these unobtainable ideas of beauty. Jennifer Siebel, creator of the documentary Missrepresentation, says

Victoria’s Secret’s ad The Perfect ”Body” features ten young models each wearing a unique bra and panty set standing side by side. The target audience of the ad is Caucasian women ages 18 to 30 years old although the ad could be relevant to girls as young as 15 years old and as old as 40 years old. They are targeting them by featuring primarily young Caucasian women in their ad. While the ad appears to feature two non-Caucasian women, I believe this is a simple nod of inclusion as they are not representative of the diverse women in America. Both models have straightened hair and very European facial features.

These are just some of the comments I stumble upon on someone’s body positive Instagram post. The post is often a photo of the said person - be it a selfie or a full body photo - along with hashtags such as “#bodypositivity,” “#loveyourself,” “#bodyacceptance,” and other hashtags along those lines. It also isn’t uncommon for me to come across body positive articles by media outlets like Buzzfeed or Huffington Post on my timeline, with headlines such as “X Star is a Huge Inspiration for the Body Positive Movement” or “X Star Opens Up about Body Positivity” appearing more frequently on my news feed. People are starting to talk