Week 2 Response

William Sea’s argument is based on many commercials that he believes change the way viewers see men and women. Sexism at its best is portrayed in the commercials he describes. He is mainly focused on the male side of the argument but does admit that the females have been unfairly stereotyped in the media as well.

In the first commercial William Sea describes the Milwaukie Beer Company portraying men as being too feminine, men who need to get in touch with their manly side. His causal argument makes the public confused by the beer company’s image of men. He asks very simply, “How should they act?” and it seems that the Milwaukie Beer Company is not answering that question for many or at least William Sea.

In the second evaluative argument, he writes of the Verizon commercial where the male figure is trying to help his annoyed daughter with homework, all the while his wife is ordering him around. He claims that (causal argument) this commercial makes the male look like a wimpy man who is being ordered around by a bossy female.

In addition, he claims that these commercials only hurt the feminist movement by giving the confused men a possible reason to “assert their dominance” over women. He claims that if men are supposed to act like inappropriate men, as suggested in the commercials, this would somehow hurt women.

In the end, with all the different types of commercials that portray men differently, he seems to be claiming that men are getting unfair treatment from the media and it’s leaving too much confusion of how men really are and how they are supposed to act. Sea seems to believe that overtime men will grow tired of seeing themselves portrayed in so many belittling ways. Sea's claims are based on his own interpretations of each commercial, so I don't think they are well supported. Another person may have a different opinion if they saw the same commercials.