Susan Bordo

Hungy? The United States sure is. Susan Bordo works at the University of Kentucky as the Otis A. Singletary Chair of Humanities. She also is a philosopher who deals with many traditional aspects of philosophy such as Rene Descartes and Sigmund Freud. However, what sets Bordo apart from most other philosophers is her training of the study of “popular culture and representations of the body. She is a philosopher, that is, who writes not only …

…U.S. population is considered obese we do not want to see it on our television or in our magazines. This is why it is hard to swallow what Bordo preaches. If advertising sets up social norms and makes people try and become beautiful and slim it is difficult to see. If her views were true the majority of the population would look like the people in advertisements, but the fact is they do not.