The idea behind Bordo's protryal of men in advertisments is unique because she is discussing the same ideas that Berger was getting at. Granted the topics they are both talking about are, I think, at polar opposites (you can't compare classic art and advertisements) but the main idea of how we see things is changing.
After seeing the first two pics/ads all I feel is inadequate. Guess I'm just feeling what women have been feeling forever now.
I really overall didn't like this essay only because of how Bordo wrote it, changing the context of how somethings are said or using some of Berger's writing but only to benefit her own. She tried to bring out the same ideas but she took it from one extreme to the other; when she told us to substitue black and white in the sentence. I also feel that she put way too much of herself in the essay, I really don't care how some ad made her feel inside, seems like at parts it was written by a hormonal, adolencent girl which should have been printed in Cosmo. But maybe the idea behind her essay was to get us to look a ad's differently, maybe she wanted us feel like times are changing and we just need to get use to the idea that men are now looked as sex symbols we just need to discern what can and should be shown to the public.
It was an interesting read especially after reading Berger because I can see some of the same points but overall I discredit Bordo for putting herself into the essay way too much, she definitly made it personal.
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