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Brandon Mora
Professor Zack De Piero
Writing 2
May 4, 2015
WP2 Mens Fashion
Why is it that men do not go into mens fashion? Is it that theres not a lot of money to be
made in that occupation? Is it genetically inherent that men are not as artsy and creative as
women? There are many answers to these questions as no one answer is entirely true. Genres are
defined as any topic that can be supported by a series of conventions in a piece of writing. The
moves or consistencies that are seen throughout a piece of writing can help to support a person
argument as well as help their point be consistent throughout their paper. Martin Heil and JansenOsmann Petras article Sex differences in mental rotation with polygons of different complexity
is dense and uses complex graphs and terminology in order prove men are big-picture thinkers
and women like to look at things piece by piece.

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Michele Ramsey and Santiago Gladyss article The Conflation of Male Homosexuality and
Femininity in "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" is less complex and rather views the idea that
men are constructed to not be feminine or else they are seen to be homosexual. Douglas Crets's
article HOW MEN'S FASHION MARKETING GETS IT ALL WRONG is easy to follow as it
was written for a popular magazine called Fast Company. Heil and Petras article was so dense
and hard to follow that the article that Ramsey and Gladyss created as well as the magazine that
Cretss made was far superior and helped answer the question of why men do not go into the
mens fashion field.
In addition to that each of the articles has its own individual genre that it would most
likely fall under. The genre for the neurological journal most resembles a research paper. The
conventions that make the journal a research paper are: the abstract, the hypothesis, the graphs
and diagrams, how the research was conducted, the methods, and the final results that transpired
in the end of the experiment. The feminist piece is probably under the genre of a critique on
modern society. This piece would fall under the genre of criticism because the piece is describing
that men are taking the form metrosexual because they do not want to seem as if they are
homosexual. Also the authors are concise with their ideas and use some popular culture
references of the Fab Five and Jack from the popular sitcom Will and Grace. The uniting
feature of the two is the works cited section that is in the bottom of each of the pieces. Finally,
the magazine article would fall under the question and answer genre because of its conventions.
The article contains a main title that is bolded with a slight unbolded section after it describing
its components as a whole. Following that, there are subheadings that are bolded and are
questions. Under the questions there are answers which are not bolded but vary in size depending

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on the questions depth. The end of the article has a picture of the author Douglas Crets.
Differences among the genres of each of the pieces helps solidify their ideas in different manners
from one another.
Moreover, in the neurological article there were confusing parts due to the fact that it was
written in a form only understandable to neurologists. As seen in Rachel Engelzingers
analyzation, One would not be familiar with this term if educated in a field other than
[Jennings] proves that using field specific words can hurt broadening your audience. The article
that Heil and Petras composed was medically driven and featured a lot of terminology that was
hard to follow. An example of this is holistic which was used to describe a mans method of
thinking. Without careful reading and analyzing it would not be known that holistic means
looking at the main points of something rather than viewing the individual components. When
they used piecemeal to describe a womans method of thinking it was not defined in the piece,
but after analyzation of the word a person can see that the word means looking at individual
components of what makes up an item (Heil). The jargon of this research based article was
difficult to understand because this was a neurological journal and it used words such as
modified hemispheric lateralization account and angular disparity which is not commonly
used in the day to day talking that one does with their friends. The use of this jargon in their
research limited their audience as many readers who are not in the neurological field would not
get the concept of the article.
Contrary to the neurological article, the magazine and the other scholarly journal did a
great job of appealing to their audience and it was simple to follow what the authors wanted us to
know. The scholarly journal did a great job of not using jargon filled words but rather used a

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popular culture reference when they referenced the popular hit show Bravos Queer Eye
(Ramsey). This greatly helped the article appeal to a mass audience as the show was well
regarded and liked when it first aired. The terminology that was most difficult to understand was
metrosexual. However, in current popular culture that word is now easily defined as that has
become part of our culture; men are starting to become more free and liberated and do not feel as
constrained by society to be a super masculine man. Similar to that, the magazine was written to
appeal to the mass public as well. There were no words that were difficult to understand, but
rather just like the article they used popular culture references to advertisements. The
advertisements that were mentioned were: Doves men body and care body wash, Old Spice,
Abercrombie and Fitch, and Dockers (Crets). The two articles sufficed for a majority of the ideas
of mens fashion and why it is that men do not usually go into that field. Even though these two
articles are similar, the main difference between all of the articles has to be the audience that was
intended to read each of them.
The audience for each of the articles are different as they were intended for different
groups of people. The audience for the neurological research journal had to be people in the
neurological field because there was heavy use of jargon that is unknown to those who are not in
that field. Also, there was use of graphs and a hypothesis in order to thoroughly figure out what
the piece was about. Contradicting that was the Male Homosexuality and Femininity scholarly
journal that was intended for a wider audience. It would most likely be for college readers who
are interested in feminist studies or are looking for an interesting read. This journal does not use
heavily discipline-oriented words as the neurological article does. Lastly, the magazine article is
intended for anyone as it is worded simply and there are no difficult points to understand in the

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piece. The points are pretty much straight-forward and they are broken up to be easily read. Each
of the articles are intended for different audiences as they are written for different reasons and
prove different ideas.
Similarly each one of the articles has their one unique and different moves. For one the
neurological paper has informational moves as there are a lot of statistics and facts to back up
their points. Also the heavy use of jargon is a move in order to solidify their ideas and make it
valid with the right terminology. The authors also used abbreviations in order so they would be
able to write more about their topic and not repeat the same words too much. Contradicting that
was the feminist piece. That piece was written formally while also containing quotations marks
which were not used to signify conversations, but rather important words. The authors piece
revolved around the show the Queer Eye and the portrayal of the Fab Five. The magazines
moves are a series of thorough answers to questions. In that article there are plenty of hyphens to
unite words that do not usually concise together. The sentence structures vary in size from one
word to twenty words in order to draw the readers attention. The moves that each piece uses is
unique as each writer has their own way of writing.
Finally, no one piece is necessarily better in informing than the other. The neurological
piece is science based, so it is more for a perspective neurological audience. While the feminist
piece is for those who want to change ideals of current society. The magazine as well is to inform
men on how society is changing and why men choose the styles they do. However, in regard to
the overall factor of each piece, the feminist piece and the magazine article were the easiest to
follow and understand because it was written with popular culture references and was
contemporary to present times.

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Works Cited
Crets, Douglas. "HOW MEN'S FASHION MARKETING GETS IT ALL WRONG." Fast
Company. New York City: Fast, 2011. Print.
Engelskirger, Rachel. The Vietnam War and Protests in the United States. Starting Lines. Santa
Barbara: UCSB, 2014. 176-178. Print
Heil, Martin, and Petra Jansen-Osmann. "Sex Differences In Mental Rotation With Polygons Of
Different Complexity: Do Men Utilize Holistic Processes Whereas Women Prefer
Piecemeal Ones?." Quarterly Journal Of Experimental Psychology 61.5
(2008): 683-689.

Academic Search Complete. Web. 4 May 2015.

Ramsey, E. Michele, and Gladys Santiago. "The Conflation Of Male Homosexuality And
Femininity In Queer Eye For The Straight Guy." Feminist Media Studies 4.3
(2004):

353-355. Academic Search Complete. Web. 4 May 2015.