Fat Is A Feminist Issue Summary

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Dear President Obama and Michelle Obama, The obesity and eating problems in American are becoming a big problem. Other nations view on Americans is being viewed in a horrible way. Americans are viewed by other nations as lazy because of the commercials that shows the negative side of our people. These commercials only show men and women that fit how society wants them to look. We can control the number of people with obesity and eating disorders if we regulate the commercials. We need to stop the images we create in commercials and make these commercials less biased against men and women. By doing this, we do not allow society to create ideal body types for males and females. Every “healthy” body should be acceptable in the eyes of the population …show more content…

In Susie Orbach's "Fat is a Feminist Issue" she claims, that "to get a man, a woman has to learn to regard herself as an item, a commodity, a sex object" (450). This implies that women are just on the earth to please the male population. She most likely feels this way because in every commercial we see a woman in the background or serving the males in the commercial. This is sexist and need to be looked at and hopefully changed. Orbach also talks about the gender stereotypes we have in our society. In commercials we see women that are small and petite. These commercials make women think they should be just like the model in the commercial. Women think they should have the stereotypical "size two" body because every commercial has a woman like that. We shouldn’t let these commercials judge what is "fat" and what is "thin". In Carrie Packwood Freeman and Debra Merskin's "Having it His Way", they talk about commercials and bring up the ideal commercials we see in America. We see a man eating a burger and a women eating a salad in every food commercial. They agree that in society we have a perfect picture of what men and women should eat in commercials. However if a male eats a salad, he is just one feminine guy. If a women eats a burger than she is manly. How does eating something say anything about how manly a person is or if they get a package from Mother Nature every month? We need to …show more content…

The writers take examples from different fast food places that are presenting females as trash and disrespecting them. The males are getting served and the females are in the background. The writers give an example of Burger Kings Have it Your Way commercial. In the commercial, the men are marching the streets to reclaim their right to eat meat instead of “chick food”. The tagline for the commercial is “Eat like a man, man.” Another commercial includes a boss of a construction site that shows a burger full of meat. The burger is called “Stacker” to go with the tagline “Stack it high, tough guy.” “He sexually harasses a full- sized female employee who flicks him into a bulldozer” (Having it His Way463). These commercials give off the idea that “men’s consumption of meat and often women enable them to 1, Seek freedom from personal and social constraints and 2, Remain loyal to the heterosexual male group” (467). I don’t think we want other nations seeing that our men are sitting around eating meat to get away from their troubles. This is why other countries think we are lazy. We should be showing our positive qualities in our commercials that make us American. The commercials that are like this are shameful to all Americans because our men do not just meat. We are still a hard working nation and this is one of the ideas we should showcase in our

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