The first article from this reading discussed how over the years the looks of action figures have gotten to be extremely unrealistic. In making these action figures look the way they do, the author of this article thinks that it has made males have a very unrealisic goal of what they should look like starting at a young age, and it as caused them to have self esteem issues through their lives. It compared guy's issues about their looks with girl's issues about their looks. It said that action figures were trying to tell males what they should look like.
The author of the second article said that they think that it is ridiculous that people think action figures influence how people look at themselves. She thinks that they are to completely separate worlds and don't have anything to do with each other. The article talks about how action figures aren't supposed to look like real people, because they are not real people. Action figures tend to have powers and are some what mutant.
The first article's one was more serious and formal. The author used information from different studies to support their argument. These arguments were more validated because they had data to back it up. The audience for this reading would have been a more formal, educated audience. The second article had a very informal tone. It was very opinionated and didn't have any proof of what she was saying. it was almost just a rant of what she thought about the subject. This article would have an audience that was informal.
I do not fully agree with either of these articles I think that there should be a middle ground between the two articles. I don't think that the action figures physique really effects how males think about themselves. The action figures may make some guys want to look more like them but over all I think that the young boys that play with the action figures admire their powers or the things that they do rather then their bodies. When I was younger I always played with Barbies, it never made me think that Barbies were what women, including myself should look like. I think that sometimes it would be nice to look like Barbie, but she is not the only vision of a body out there. There are women all over television that don't look like Barbie, in magazines, in real life. It is true that they would make some girls or boys strive to look like their toys because they are their heroes. There are some cases where a child would want to look exactly like their toy, for example: Halloween or toys like My Size Barbie. This Barbie does not have the same proportions that a regular Barbie has, because it is made to look like a young girl so that they can fit in the clothes.