I wish i had 26 inch biceps

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The first article's argument is about the trends of dolls like G.I. Joe dolls getting bigger and more muscular on men. The article says that over the years the bigger and more muscular the dolls have gotten the more discontent males in western society have gotten about their bodies, and more males have tried to be bigger.

The second article's argument argues that these action figures have not had an impact on the youth. The author agrues that plastic can not impact a young child. The author also believes that barbies don't have an impact on little girls and what they think is beautiful.

The third article is more about what men think women want, and how different cultures think what women want. And it argues that men in western cultures always think that really muscular men are more attractive to women but studies have shown that thats not true.

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Well the first article seems to be a little more serious, the author seems to almost sound like he is pleading with the audience. He almost sounds like the author who wrote the article about anorexic women from last week. In one sentence the author says "(muscle dysmorphia") It is characterized by obessional preoccupations and implusive behaviors similar to those of classical obessional-compulsive disorder(pg 285)". The author connects muscle dysmorphia to a mental disorder which allows the audience to feel sorry to the victiums of muscle dysmorphia. In the second article the author trys to brush off the problem (muscle dysmorphia) as a joke. He says toward the end of his article "to suggest that even little boys measure manliness by taking a ruler to their G.I. Joes is comical. He doesn't believe that it is a problem and brushes it away i think he uses the fallacy oversimplification.

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Well i'm kind of in the middle of the two arguements. I believe that people and pop culture have influenced me more than action figures. I really never had G.I. joe or any other action figures, i think because i argeed with my dad that dolls where for girls not guys. I remember the first movie i can really remember watching over and over again was Blood Sport. Where Jean Claude van Dam is a kick boxer in a deadly underground japenese or chinese tournement. I remember wanting to be just like Jean Claude because he kicked butt. And i believe that has influenced me a little bit. Like i used to bigger like 205lbs in sept. 2007 now im weighing 158 lbs and i don't feel confident in my looks anymore because im not as big as i use to be. I also started playing football at a young age and i believe that also pushed me to be big and muscluar. Even my father, who i love very much, but as a child i always was in aw in how strong he was, even today he is to me super human strong... and i always wanted to out lift him, out do him, show that im more of a man and that always pushed me to be bigger stronger faster (which so happends to be the motto of my high school football team when we lifted).