previous issue of a fashion magazine. The diet pills add has an average size woman at the beach in a bathing suit. The way the bathing suit is made, the picture makes you thing that it was taken in the fifties, along with it not flattering the woman's figure at all. In front of the woman that is significantly smaller then the first woman. This makes you think that the first woman was fat. First off, in the fifties, the women that were advertised were larger then women today. Secondly, the angles of the shot are different and benefit the second woman better. Through out all that the ad benefits the second Yarbrough 4woman, it gives the person looking at the ad a distorted view of being fat. The second picture example she used had a tall and extremely skinny girl standing against a tree. The girl's bones were sticking out of her body because of the lack of fat and muscle she had on her. Since this picture made it's dbut in a fashion magazine, people that see, who are not extremely confident with themselves, will think that she looks great the need to loose weight so they can look like her, instead of seeing the sick looking young woman that the model really is.Bordo touched on a few different arguments of the opposing sides. Even with disagreement, she remained to stay fair. Bordo even shows us that she is willing to admit when she is wrong when she states in her article, "the feminists complained that I had not sufficiently attended the racial and ethnic 'difference' and was assuming the white, middle-class experience as the norm" (238). Later on she goes on to say that she was wrong and now believes slightly different and backs up her theory with medical evidence and discoveries. This shows that she is looking out for the readers best interest and unlike men, would admit when she is wrong. Bordo challenges Freud's idea of not meeting one's needs when she says, "I would argue that ghostly pallor and bodily disrepair, in 'h...
