Q: Look at the results from Tuesday's survey on the traits of masculinity, which I also showed in class. How important are the top two responses, muscles and athletics/sports, for establishing masculinity? Should we be working to take into account other characteristics?
A: Personally when someone mentions the word masculine an image of a big buff guy with "athletic" clothes and a baseball cap on his head immediately pops into my head. I think I speak for a lot of people because not too many people these days really like to be creative when creating stereotypes for a person. To me it was no surprise seeing those characteristics as the top two, but I do think we should broaden our horizons more when "labeling" somebody. I think there was a good point made in class that even if you don't have muscles or aren't the athletic type, you could still be labeled masculine if for example; you serve as a person's protector or are a handyman.
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Paris Hilton's Simple Life...
So I came across this article about Paris Hilton's arrest following a cocaine possession and the treatment she recieved in jail. Needless to say...I am not surprised. In this article they claim that after she was arrested, her stay in jail was anywhere from 5-21 hours shorter than that of someone else who is booked for the same offense. To me this is simply not fair. If anything, I think she should have stayed 5-21 hours LONGER. The girl hasn't had a taste of the "real world" since the day she was born, and her reality show "The Simple Life" does not count... I don't think it is fair for someone to be treated differently just by their name or their celebrity "status". I'd like to see a show where a celebrity volunteers to have a makeunder and then goes into a jail acting as someone else, I bet the results would be much different than if they had went to jail as themselves.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Required Post #3
Q: Now that we have read six articles for Popular Culture, look back on those six articles (from Aug. 31-Sep. 14) and explain which of these six articles provides the most provocative and interesting information for the reader. Why is this information interesting? Is this information also something that is important for the reader to know or think about? Why or why not?
A: Personally, I found the "Only Two Percent of Women Describe Themselves as Beautiful" article to be the most interesting. Most times when you see a woman walking down the street nicely dressed, hair done, and face full of make up you think to yourself "Oh, she seems pretty confident." Well after reading this article it kind of surprised me to know that such a small percent of women actually consider themselves beautiful. I think that the media has a had a very big effect on this. Women believe that the media has "upgraded" the definition of beautiful to a point where most of them think the status is impossible to attain. This can then lead to self-esteem issues because they no longer have all of that confidence they may have had before. I think the media needs to learn from Dove's new campaign and not pick such "flawless" women, or not make them look so flawless by using a computer. If the media picks the more "flawaless" women and labes them beautiful, then the women with maybe the slightest flaws don't feel beautiful.
A: Personally, I found the "Only Two Percent of Women Describe Themselves as Beautiful" article to be the most interesting. Most times when you see a woman walking down the street nicely dressed, hair done, and face full of make up you think to yourself "Oh, she seems pretty confident." Well after reading this article it kind of surprised me to know that such a small percent of women actually consider themselves beautiful. I think that the media has a had a very big effect on this. Women believe that the media has "upgraded" the definition of beautiful to a point where most of them think the status is impossible to attain. This can then lead to self-esteem issues because they no longer have all of that confidence they may have had before. I think the media needs to learn from Dove's new campaign and not pick such "flawless" women, or not make them look so flawless by using a computer. If the media picks the more "flawaless" women and labes them beautiful, then the women with maybe the slightest flaws don't feel beautiful.
Required Post #2
Q: What is the proper rold of pornography in American society? Who benefits from pornography? Who is harmed? Explain your answers.
A: I think that the proper role of pornography in American society is simply to obviously benefit the porn industry, give "models/actors" something to do, and most obvious, pleasure the human being watching it. The ones who benefit from it are obviously the companies making profit from the purchases of the magazines or movies that they make; or I suppose you could say the person watching/looking benefits too. I think that the person watching it can be harmed in many ways. Number one, porn can become an addiction. Two, if you are in a relationship/married your partner may feel as though you enjoy porn more than you do them. Three, increases crime rate because you could be surfing the net, click into the wrong page (that may involve exposed children) and you could be in deep trouble.
A: I think that the proper role of pornography in American society is simply to obviously benefit the porn industry, give "models/actors" something to do, and most obvious, pleasure the human being watching it. The ones who benefit from it are obviously the companies making profit from the purchases of the magazines or movies that they make; or I suppose you could say the person watching/looking benefits too. I think that the person watching it can be harmed in many ways. Number one, porn can become an addiction. Two, if you are in a relationship/married your partner may feel as though you enjoy porn more than you do them. Three, increases crime rate because you could be surfing the net, click into the wrong page (that may involve exposed children) and you could be in deep trouble.
Required Post #1
Q: How do you respond to the arguments that have been made in this week's reading? Is our popular culture healthy in regards to beauty? Do we focus on physical appearance too much?
A: I, along with most of you, agree that a lot of people's perception of the word beautiful has changed due to the poor representation by the media. I think that with the way some things are adversited (for ex: lingerie and makeup), it gives a poor example of what people are really trying to say beauty is. I don't believe popular culture is healthy, I think that we need to broaden are views and not always look for the flaws in people physically. I think that in some way, shape, or form there can be beauty in everyone. Some people know how to show it, while others don't.
A: I, along with most of you, agree that a lot of people's perception of the word beautiful has changed due to the poor representation by the media. I think that with the way some things are adversited (for ex: lingerie and makeup), it gives a poor example of what people are really trying to say beauty is. I don't believe popular culture is healthy, I think that we need to broaden are views and not always look for the flaws in people physically. I think that in some way, shape, or form there can be beauty in everyone. Some people know how to show it, while others don't.
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