Blog 4- Toys

The first article's argument is about children's toys becoming less life-like as the years go by. They used examples of the GI Joe toy having more ripped abs, thighs, and biceps from 1982 to 1998 to show that unrealistic body image portrayed to children. The Luke Skywalker action figure changed from an average man to a man with unusually broad chest and shoulders. The writers’ tone of the article shows that they disapprove of how the toys are portrayed in society. The style and language of the article affectively support the arguments because they give the measurements of action figures from two different years to compare how the action figures grew in specific areas. The audience for this article would be teenagers and up because there is so much detail in it, and children would not understand it all or pay attention to it.

The second article’s argument is about how people thinking that action figures make kids want to look exactly like them are not true. The writer says that when she was a kid she liked looking at her brother’s toys and seeing that they were mutants instead of looking like a real person. The style and language of the article ineffectively supports her argument because it is just her opinion and does not have specific numbers like the first article. The audience for this article is all ages because it doesn’t have big words in it for children to get confused with.

When I was younger I played with Barbie dolls all the time, but I never saw them as what the perfect girl should look like. I just saw them as dolls to play with and keep me entertained for a while. My parents did not have a problem with me playing with them and did not mind which ones I played with. My favorite doll was the teenage Barbie doll; I think her name was Skipper. She had a smaller chest then Barbie and longer hair, but I think she was my favorite because she had pierced ears. I was never really into GI Joes or boy toys that were violent, but I also was not into Barbie dolls because they were really feminine. I just liked Barbie dolls because I liked to change her outfits and change her hair styles.