Blog Number 3

Blog #3 

a. Type your favorite quote from Goffman.  Explain why this quote is significant 

to you (50-75 words). 

 b.  Type your favorite quote from Bordo.  Explain why this quote is significant to 

you (50-75 words). 

 c. How well does Goffman and Bordo’s analysis hold-up today? In other words, 

have visual images in advertisements of men and women changed? (100-150).  

A) After reading Goffman's passage about their views on gender advertisements, my favorite quote from the passage is,"...one finds that the allocation of at least one girl and at least one boy ensures that a symbolization of the full set of intrafamily relations can be effected." Goffman also continues by stating how you would always find the mothers with daughters and the fathers with the sons. These quotes are significant to me because, I have experience, and agree, of what the author says. I tend to do more activities with my father than i do with my mother. Also, my two sisters seem to be more closer to my mother as well. 

B) One of my favorite quotes from Bordo is,"The magazines tell me at this age, a woman can still me beautiful. but they don't mean me." Also, I found interesting on how Bordo describes how older actresses seems to get more younger than older. These quotes are significant to me because woman these days seem to be surgically beautiful, than to be natural. I also find these quotes significant because most television commercials I see today deal with aging products, and how woman will do almost anything to make themselves seem younger. 

C) I believe visual images has changes drastically in advertisements of men and woman. More products come out every year to keep men and woman from aging at a quick rate. It seems like more female products come out than males, such as makeup, wrinkle products, and skin products. however, males do have their share in visual images, such as products to eliminate grey hair, and to help men get their hair back. In conclusion, no matter how one would look at it, visual images has indeed changes for both men and women.