While browsing Youtube, I came across a video called Always #LikeAGirl. In the video, three women, one boy, and one man were asked to show what it looked like to run, throw, and fight “like a girl”. Each of them gave very predictable performances that can be seen as degrading to girls. Then, young girls were asked the same questions. Each of the girls gave completely different performances then the first set of people did, revealing to the viewer that doing something “like a girl” has become an insult in our society. Also, because of this, using “like a girl” as an insult leads to the lack of self-confidence within young girls, especially girls who are going through puberty. The video then comes to an end with women speaking out against using “like a girl” as an insult and how doing something “like a girl” is not a bad thing.
I can definitely see rhetoric being used in this video by the obvious usage of ethos and pathos. Ethos is being used by the people in the video by them trying to find common ground with the audience. They successfully find this common ground by having girls speak about a topic which directly affects them. This makes the audience more likely to listen to them because arranging for girls talk about an issue that affects girls is the most credible source for this video. The video then uses pathos by the young girls expressing their opinions about what it means to do something “like a girl”. People are more susceptible to feeling pity towards children as opposed to feeling pity towards adults. This is why I believe the usage of young girls and adults helped make the argument more effective.
Overall, I think this argument was logical as well as reasonable. Regardless of the bias that I have towards this since I’m a girl, I still think that the video gave a great message and provided multiple perspectives that I never would’ve otherwise thought of before.
I think that the commercial makes a very good point. Girls are put down a lot for "throwing like a girl" or "running like a girl". I think that our culture definitely this mindset from a lot of television shows and movies, because that's how girls are portrayed.
I think this is a great commercial that it tries to change people's wrong prejudice by showing them what girls are really like. I hope a lot of people see this commercial!
this was a very interesting video Sierra! I found it extremely interesting when they asked the little boy if he had insulted his sister and he reply “No… well, yeah I insulted girls.” I think it is very common that people say things like “you hit like a girl” not meaning to insult anyone (except maybe the person who is punching) in particular. Thanks for sharing this video!
While browsing on Google I found an old advertisement. The ad was for Lustre-Crème Shampoo. It featured Marilyn Monroe, known for her beauteous looks and her parts in different movies. One of her movies was Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Lustre-Crème was attempting to sell their shampoo through the use of fallacies. By saying that Marilyn Monroe that tells you nothing about the actual product: it simply attracts you to the pretty face in the picture. Using this as an argument of why someone should buy your product is quite illogical. Just because Marilyn Monroe uses it doesn’t provide assurance of its abilities. They attempt using snob appeal by trying to make the audience believe that they could be like Marilyn Monroe if they use the same product as her. They use appeal to illegitimate authority by using Marilyn Monroe to promote their product. Although she herself is a customer, this is still rather irrelevant. She herself has no type of expertise in hair products and knows nothing that
While at the movie theaters to see The Maze Runner , I saw a commercial that featured rhetoric. The commercial begins with a young woman named Jess purchasing two Coca Cola drinks in a convenience store. One has her own name on it, and one has the name of her friend Alisha on it. The cashier watches her forlornly as she leaves, hinting that he has a crush on his customer. Jess gives the Coke with Alisha’s name on it to her friend, and together the two friends drink them. Later, Jess, Alisha and two other friends come back into the store to buy more Coke, then leave and have a good time together. Jess keeps coming back to the store with more and more friends, each time purchasing Coca Cola with their names printed on the labels. The cashier smiles and watches, but it is clear that he wishes he was with Jess. Finally, as the cashier is closing the store for the night, Jess shows up at the door with a Coke that has the name Chris on it. She smiles and hands the drink to the cash
In this Heinz condiments commercial, aired during the Super Bowl this past year, a group of dachshunds are shown in hot dog costumes running towards humans in Heinz ketchup and mustard costumes who end up catching the dogs as they leap into the humans’ arms and lick their faces. This commercial is a specific appeal to pathos as the dogs are dressed up and are meant to be cute. The phrase at the end of the commercial is “it’s hard to resist great taste” and this is stated while the dogs are licking the humans implying that the dogs like Heinz and that humans should buy it as well because the cute dogs in costumes did.
This just shows how sexist people are! I agree with you that this was effective and had a great message.
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I think that the commercial makes a very good point. Girls are put down a lot for "throwing like a girl" or "running like a girl". I think that our culture definitely this mindset from a lot of television shows and movies, because that's how girls are portrayed.
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I think this is a great commercial that it tries to change people's wrong prejudice by showing them what girls are really like. I hope a lot of people see this commercial!
ReplyDeletethis was a very interesting video Sierra! I found it extremely interesting when they asked the little boy if he had insulted his sister and he reply “No… well, yeah I insulted girls.” I think it is very common that people say things like “you hit like a girl” not meaning to insult anyone (except maybe the person who is punching) in particular. Thanks for sharing this video!
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