Cause and Effect Fallacies: "Hugo Boss". This ad tries to convince people that if anyone who wants to be like a boss, or look like a boss, just needs to get outfits from Hugo Boss. The young lady looks really cool in the ad; no one knows anything about her career. She probably just a model, not a boss. But the cause and effect tend to just miss the point.
OK. There seems to be something with the word Boss, too. Are they switching meanings around?
Do they expect us to get that?
In what sense might they expect me to imagine that the model looks like a boss? She doesn't look like an employer, does she? (Maybe I'm out of date; none of my bosses ever, ever looked like that.) If she were to look like an employer-type boss, wouldn't they have her dressed for the office in kind of a tailored whatever-you-call-office-outfits-for-women?
Do you think someone could mean boss in a different sense, some sense that has to do with the camera shot from around her knees somewhere, the dark colors and so forth?
But I think you may be indicating what I'm searching for, and I just don't get it exactly. Do you mean that HB's trying to sell independence or even dominance, and just because she looks hot in the black duds doesn't mean she has that?
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Cause and Effect Fallacies: "Hugo Boss". This ad tries to convince people that if anyone who wants to be like a boss, or look like a boss, just needs to get outfits from Hugo Boss. The young lady looks really cool in the ad; no one knows anything about her career. She probably just a model, not a boss. But the cause and effect tend to just miss the point.
OK. There seems to be something with the word Boss, too. Are they switching meanings around?
Do they expect us to get that?
In what sense might they expect me to imagine that the model looks like a boss? She doesn't look like an employer, does she? (Maybe I'm out of date; none of my bosses ever, ever looked like that.) If she were to look like an employer-type boss, wouldn't they have her dressed for the office in kind of a tailored whatever-you-call-office-outfits-for-women?
Do you think someone could mean boss in a different sense, some sense that has to do with the camera shot from around her knees somewhere, the dark colors and so forth?
But I think you may be indicating what I'm searching for, and I just don't get it exactly. Do you mean that HB's trying to sell independence or even dominance, and just because she looks hot in the black duds doesn't mean she has that?
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