Reading #13 Wysocki

Summary:
In her article "The Sticky Embrace of Beauty", Anne Frances Wysocki attempts to explain to the reader about the way that advertising is pleasing and/or offensive. She states how women are objectifying by showing how beauty is in advertisements, how they are going to stand out or pleasure someone, but in context it can sometimes be offensive to a women.

Syntheis:
I think this article relates to the Bernhardt article in the way that they both talk about the visual aspects of writing piece, and how they have different effects on the reader.

Pre-Reading:
  This is what every man thinks a woman should do, cook and clean. Of course this will make me mad. But i like this advertisment because it is funny how she is like " just not as it applies to me." It is old but it has a sense of humor but is so true. Men should and can clean and cook also not just woman.

QD:
2. The way Wysocki sets up her article is a little werid for me, she uses too many quotes so I got a little lost and confused on what she was trying to say. I would say it is a low visual but at time she had some visual elements because she explain the effects in detail.

3. The Peek ad for me as a consumer would work because it has a picture and has important details on it, personally I wouldn't buy it because I don't like but it makes me wonder how much stuff is out there in the world that puts out information like that.

AE:
2. I agree with Wysocki that “beauty is something we construct together” and subjected to social forces because everyone is has beauty but some people just don't construct it together in time to see that they have beauty. Everyone is beautiful in there own way. 

Meta Moment:
To me the statement does apply to what Wysocki explains because she states that beauty catches the eye and that you have to go outside of the box at times, and if you don't then you will just be there forever. I don't know really how it applies to other visual art. 

My thoughts:
I thought this reading was a little confusing with all the quotes and stuff she put in it, and it was a very long and boring. I guess I am just a boring reader but I didn't enjoy reading the article, and didn't really get what she was trying to state.