Blog # 10 Jesus is my home boy

1. After considering the arguments, how do you respond to the visual and textual rhetoric of these shirts? the visual is not so much disturbing as the words underneath it. you can have a image of how you want Jesus to look happy sad what ever its the wording that really disturbs me. The Mary is my home girl t-shirt effects me the same the image isn't what bothers me its the wording. Does one shirt elicit a different reaction from you than the other? no they both equally make me upset with the saying "Jesus is my homeboy," and "Mary is my home girl."
Do you see the images as a parody? it isn't so much a parody, as it is trying to create shock value to get people to notice what they are selling. How does your exposure, participation, or lack of participation in a spiritual faith influence your answer? Explain. i am a firm believer in god but seeing as i am Jewish this probably wouldn't effect me As much as someone who is Catholic. But on the same level if someone was to take Jewish religious figures and do the same i would be upset. it would upset me because god is not one to gain a profit off of or to market as your best buddy.


2. If the t-shirts only contained the text, how would that impact the rhetorical effect? the effect to me would be the same because it' not so much the picture that offends me it the wording that really offends me.


3. How do you interpret the rhetorical message about Jesus in each t-shirt? Consider how you interpreted the comics and ads in the beginning of the term as a model for how to respond to this question. the message that i get from the image is that Jesus is your best buddy. Its relates this message in the image because Jesus is there smiling giving you the piece sign in one image, and in the other he is just simply setting there holding up the wording "Jesus is my home boy." the first image really rubs me the wrong way more than the other. The image of Jesus holding up the piece sign with his hat on and his hoody over it. This to me represents a more gangster version of Jesus one that would drink with you and smoke. and at the end of it tell you it would be nice if we went to church now to repent what we have just done laughing. to me this just really plays on the fact that Jesus is all forgiving that he would just be there as a symbol of divinity and that he is your best friend. but the Bible depicts him as the savior, these people are taking that image and using it to make a profit pure shock value noting more.