The Hypocrisy Bowl Answers

1. The trend that the article focuses on is the hypocritical nature of the media concerning football/sporting events and the sexual nature of a super bowl halftime show.
2. The author does give an interesting introduction, he points out all the messages football sends to the viewer ex. Men hitting each other, scantily clad cheerleaders, animals selling alcohol in ads.
3. The author does explain the context of the issue, and that is what makes all the controversy seem very hypocritical. The author goes pretty in depth analyzing what happened and having many quotes form primary sources regarding the issue. This signifies that the author intended this to be read by people who wanted to know the whole story and maybe formulate their own opinions.
4. The possible causes of the trend that the author explores could be for one the American people themselves being overly critical, they find it acceptable to have cheerleaders paraded around at football games hardly wearing anything but when during a musical performance a woman’s breast is exposed not even fully the country flips out. People need to take a look at their own views on what is acceptable and not acceptable and realize there isn’t much of a difference.
5. The author illustrates his belief in a similar way to me by poking fun at how hypocritical the people who were upset by this were.
6. The author’s stance is that the culture surrounding football needs a reality check and needs to take a step back and look at themselves and at what is wrong and right in regards to objectifying women.
7. The author sees significance in this event in that the hypocrisy goes far beyond this one event , it’s in every sport it’s in politics and government, and what it’s doing is leaving a culture in his words “naked”