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both stories they talk about different genders and how they eat or supposed to
eat. In “Fat Is a Feminist Issue” by Susie Orbach, the author talks about how
women get the finger pointed at them for not controlling their appetite,
weight, and impulses. In this article they say that women to be attractive to
get a husband. If women are fat than it is says that are breaking the norm by
being fat. Orbach says “Fat is a social disease, and fat is a feminist issue.”
I agree that “Fat is a social disease” I think that our society advertising
fast food a lot and has good looking people in it to draw attention to the
food. In the second article in the “They say I say” authors Carrie Packwood
Freeman & Debra Merskin give my though some truth. They say how men are normally
in the burger and meat commercials such as Burger King and Arby’s. Women are
normally associated with organic, vegetables, and healthy foods. Men are more
seen as carnivores and women are seen as omnivores. I hate how in commercial women
are seen more as a prop, and they are always skinny, and pretty. Both commercials
are viewing women as someone who doesn’t eat and that is how people think that
society’s women are supposed to be.
After reading, “Fat Is a Feminist Issue” and “Having it His Way” and analyzing them with depth, I do agree with how society has made judgmental expectations of how a female and a male should eat. In Susie Orbach’s passage, women are being criticized on their physique appearance. Throughout time, females have been expected to look different based on what the males’ appealing preference is. For example, Susie mentions that in the 1960s, the women were expected to be skinny, flat-breasted, and have straightened hair. Then in the 1970s, it was the opposite style with the women having curly hair and big breasts. Nowadays, being a fat woman can be problematic because society considers fat as a disease. Women are expected to eat healthier food. Women are considered objects, so for a woman to be able to get married, she has to look appealing. She has to offer her self-image on a marriage market. On the other hand, in “Having It His Way,” men are not judged too much on their physique like a woman is. Men are actually expected to eat more and eat unhealthy food. They emphasize meat as a masculine type of food and say that all men should eat meat. Therefore, most advertisements that deal with meat always prefer a male to do the commercial. It gives the commercial a more desirable image of the meat and food making it more sellable. At the end of the day, women are just expected to be healthier and maintain their bodies and for men to just “eat like a man.”
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