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Essay A: Revised Draft In “Hunger as Ideology,” by Susan Bordo, advertisements for food are shown to market their products towards women by preying on their vulnerabilities and insecurities in terms of gender roles, appearance, and eating habits. Bordo begins by showing an advertisement for Virginia Slims. It shows a beautiful, carefree woman with the caption, “Decisions are easy: When I get to a fork in the road I eat.” Here Bordo claims that Virginia …

…fact that ads may be gender biased and may even take advantage of women’s vulnerabilities they are still within legal limits. Advertisers are attempting to make money and are not plotting to cause women’s eating disorders or worsen their stature in the domestic arena. Unfortunately women take the brunt of advertisers’ power to exploit because they are primarily the shoppers in our society. If advertisements are to change then society must change first.