Teal Pfeifer's Devastating Beauty

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In her serious article, Devastating Beauty, Teal Pfeifer creates an informative composition that discusses how magazine include images of very thin, beautiful women. Pfeifer encourages to boycott these images in order to decrease the negative feelings the magazine consumers have toward themselves and their bodies. Through the incorporation of sophisticated diction, Pfeifer creates an ethical appeal by appearing knowledgeable through her word choice. The word emaciated has a negative connotation. The word means to be abnormally thin or weak (denotation). When one hears the word ‘emaciated’ they think of one who is anorexic. This could be caused by self-consciousness one may have with her body so to try to fix it, one may stops eating to become more …show more content…

This word is the action of singling someone out for cruel or unjust treatment (denotation). When one hears the word’ victimization’ they think of one treating another poorly. Pfeifer includes this word because many treat others poorly because of their body image. Also when a women looks at a magazine with a model on the front cover, she may feel worse about her body because she is not as thin or healthy as her. The reader can visualize this by their own experience looking in a mirror or at a magazine and thinking the same thing.The word insidious has a negative connotation. The word means stealthily treacherous or deceitful (denotation). When one hears the word ‘insidious’ they think of something that is sneaky or dangerous. This word is included instead of others because it represents the message girls are given to wear a size 0 or 1, this puts pressure on them and gets worse as they grow up. The reader can visualize unhealthy girls who are just trying to ‘fit in,’ but in reality they are damaging their bodies trying to become perfect.The word stringent has a negative

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