I will blog about guys and girls in sports and the stereotypes of sports with different sexes; Such as, football. Why do people assume girls do not like football and have no interest in playing. I understand some girls may not like football but we are just as capable as playing football as the boys, even tackle. On our high school team there was one girl that ever played football, I am not sure if that was because everyone else is scared to try out or scared to do something different.
Another example is color guard in the marching band. Our high school band director would not let any guys try out to do color guard. They could be just as skilled and talented as the girls, he was a sexist guy who thinks If a guy is doing color guard and not playing and instrument he will not represent the high school band very well.
Sunday, December 6, 2009
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
This blog is going to be about human trafficking and how it is still a major issue in today’s society. Trafficking is when people sell mainly children, mainly young girls to others. It is normally for work or sex which is terrible but goes on everywhere around the world. I know this happens every day, I found out that a Hispanic male tried to sell me little girl cousin, and planned on taking her back to Mexico. Luckily, he was sent to jail and she is safe now. This has always been a problem, and I think people do not realize that it is just a terrible thing that still happens. This can relate to women studies because it is simply the fact that people want to sell children, for sex and work. That is immoral and I think people who want to sell these children, plus the people who are buying these children should be severely punished. I do not know if there is anything anybody could do to stop this, but I think one step at a time we can try to bring everybody aware of human trafficking.
Saturday, November 14, 2009
News, and online pics.
This first thing I want to discuss in this blog is how dangerous today’s society has become. When people watch the news or read the newspaper, it is never really something good. It is always about how someone just did a shooting, or a suicide bombing in Iraq, or how poor the economy is. I think after all the negatives and terrible things that happening here I feel the news should have to find at least one positive thing to inform everybody about. When I went to CNN’s website the headlines were… sixth relative arrested in child sex case, John Gosslin sues TLC for $5 million. That is just two of the headlines that stood out to me. Not one of the headlines was good. I know there may not be any good things but I am sure there is at least one good story. And most of the bad news has to do with a male, the child sex cases and John. Maybe, the news can add some good stories about guys so they won’t always look like the bad guys.
Another thing I want to talk about is how when Myspace was big and young teens put pictures of themselves half naked on there, and they would talk to these guys who they did not know, and just let everyone look at their personal information. I think this has gotten very dangerous and out of hand. I think it is stupid for these girls to put half naked pictures on the internet, and talk to people they have no clue who they are.
I want to also talk about the reading article I had to discuss in class, about women in art. I never thought about why when we look in the past there are several famous men artitst but no female. Dealing with the comic strips and women, the book said that women do good comic strips but are never noticed, saying that women comics are to emotional and feminine. That got me mad because that is very sterotypical and we should be noticed just like men for our talents.
Another thing I want to talk about is how when Myspace was big and young teens put pictures of themselves half naked on there, and they would talk to these guys who they did not know, and just let everyone look at their personal information. I think this has gotten very dangerous and out of hand. I think it is stupid for these girls to put half naked pictures on the internet, and talk to people they have no clue who they are.
I want to also talk about the reading article I had to discuss in class, about women in art. I never thought about why when we look in the past there are several famous men artitst but no female. Dealing with the comic strips and women, the book said that women do good comic strips but are never noticed, saying that women comics are to emotional and feminine. That got me mad because that is very sterotypical and we should be noticed just like men for our talents.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Everything and Anything
Our class discussion was about several topics, and I am going to comment on a few things. First, about the Mikey Mouse and how they are trying to masculinize him, I mean what is wrong with the original Mikey Mouse....nothing he is a classic.
The main topic of this blog is about what I read in the newspaper about out-lawing same sex marriage. I think they should not out-law it, and they should have the same chance as everyone else to get married. It is noboyd's else business who someone choose to marry. The newspaper said that Maine was the thirty first state to deny make same-sex marriage legal. That gets me angry, if someone can marry an object like the effile tower (who is not even a person) why can't two people who love eachother get married?
We also discussed about Western and where our money goes. The people of higher authority such as the president will just keep getting richer and taking our money without even caring. As long as they are getting paid everything is great. I think that we should be able to actual tailgate (with cars in the grass.) I liked the idea of making someone pay a dollar or two, it will be worth it and people would do it and WKU would raise money. I do think that this is a great school which is why I came, I love the campus and all the grass and trees.
Last thing, someone said a comment about if a guy is not manly than people will tease him and say things such as: pussy, sissy, wimp. just like girl terms. so is that implying we are weak??
The main topic of this blog is about what I read in the newspaper about out-lawing same sex marriage. I think they should not out-law it, and they should have the same chance as everyone else to get married. It is noboyd's else business who someone choose to marry. The newspaper said that Maine was the thirty first state to deny make same-sex marriage legal. That gets me angry, if someone can marry an object like the effile tower (who is not even a person) why can't two people who love eachother get married?
We also discussed about Western and where our money goes. The people of higher authority such as the president will just keep getting richer and taking our money without even caring. As long as they are getting paid everything is great. I think that we should be able to actual tailgate (with cars in the grass.) I liked the idea of making someone pay a dollar or two, it will be worth it and people would do it and WKU would raise money. I do think that this is a great school which is why I came, I love the campus and all the grass and trees.
Last thing, someone said a comment about if a guy is not manly than people will tease him and say things such as: pussy, sissy, wimp. just like girl terms. so is that implying we are weak??
Friday, October 30, 2009
Halloween
This blog will be about eating disorders and how so many young females are wanting to be skinner and how they look at these models and young girls idolize them. I do not know where this "American Weight" comes into place because in reality, sadly but more Americans are overweight than their expected weight. I do also think that obesity is just getting out of hand and becoming an epidemic. I think if the government want to do something, than they need to fix the prices of the healthier food. I think some of the problem is that the healthier food is more expensive than the fatty, unhealthy food. It is cheaper to buy a bag of chips versus some fresh fruit.
Another topic for this blog will be Halloween and how it can be a very dangerouse time (mostly because of men.) That is how I am relating this to our class, because I remember when I was young and I always giving my mom my candy to check before because people can do something to the candy. I find that pretty disturbing but I know it really happens. Also, when I went up to my grandma's one year for Halloween and I thought it was strange that their trick-or-treat night is always the Sunday afternoon before Halloween because there was a problem with children being kid knapped at dark and dusk. Most of the Kid Knappers are male, and they not only abduct girls, but boys too.
Another topic for this blog will be Halloween and how it can be a very dangerouse time (mostly because of men.) That is how I am relating this to our class, because I remember when I was young and I always giving my mom my candy to check before because people can do something to the candy. I find that pretty disturbing but I know it really happens. Also, when I went up to my grandma's one year for Halloween and I thought it was strange that their trick-or-treat night is always the Sunday afternoon before Halloween because there was a problem with children being kid knapped at dark and dusk. Most of the Kid Knappers are male, and they not only abduct girls, but boys too.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Random
I think this blog will be about several different topics. The first being what we watched in class and how explicit and terrible all of it was. It degrades women and I think if any guy watches that stuff and finds ‘pleasure’ out of it then something is wrong. Shoving something into a woman should not turn any guy on. I do not have much else to say about that, but I was watching True Life on MTV and one of the episodes were that they were addicted to watching pornography. It showed three different guys and they were all dating and it affected their relationships and if I remember right two of the guys broke it off with their girlfriends while the other was able to work through it. I do not think you should outlaw pornography, even though I do not agree with it, it is someone’s job and if that is the only income they have then so be it. It will also be hard to define what porn is and what is not. But I will not be surprised if they tried to outlaw pornography in the future.
The other topic I have relates to women’s studies but we watched the video in sociology. We watched a Dateline episode from the 80’s or 90’s and they did a test of how employers and unequal women are treated. One study was they took a man and a woman to go buy a car, they put a little hidden camera on their shirts to video tape it all. When the woman went to go look for a car, the sells man raised the price for the car, and would not let her test drive it because of ‘insurance reasons’, she had to ride while he drove around. Also, when she tried to negotiate the price he only went down $200 dollars. When the man went, he was able to test drive the car off the lot without the sells man even in the car. The starting price was lower than the woman’s and he negotiated about $800 dollars. When they confronted the sales guy, of course he made excuses saying “he is new to the job,” and how woman do not know as much as men about cars.
Another study was when they took the same man and woman went to apply for a job. It was the same company but had two different jobs, one as secretary and one as assistant manager. One the woman’s application they made her more qualified in the business with more work experience and education. When she went into the interview the employer assumed that she wanted to become the secretary and did not even offer her the assistant manager job position even though she was qualified and more educated. For the man, his application said he had little to no experience and little education and when he went for the interview the employer offered him the assistant manager position. After confronting the employer he said that would relate a secretary to a woman and would not even think about hiring a male for the position. Also there was about $1.50 difference in the pay the employer mentioned to the male and female.
The other topic I have relates to women’s studies but we watched the video in sociology. We watched a Dateline episode from the 80’s or 90’s and they did a test of how employers and unequal women are treated. One study was they took a man and a woman to go buy a car, they put a little hidden camera on their shirts to video tape it all. When the woman went to go look for a car, the sells man raised the price for the car, and would not let her test drive it because of ‘insurance reasons’, she had to ride while he drove around. Also, when she tried to negotiate the price he only went down $200 dollars. When the man went, he was able to test drive the car off the lot without the sells man even in the car. The starting price was lower than the woman’s and he negotiated about $800 dollars. When they confronted the sales guy, of course he made excuses saying “he is new to the job,” and how woman do not know as much as men about cars.
Another study was when they took the same man and woman went to apply for a job. It was the same company but had two different jobs, one as secretary and one as assistant manager. One the woman’s application they made her more qualified in the business with more work experience and education. When she went into the interview the employer assumed that she wanted to become the secretary and did not even offer her the assistant manager job position even though she was qualified and more educated. For the man, his application said he had little to no experience and little education and when he went for the interview the employer offered him the assistant manager position. After confronting the employer he said that would relate a secretary to a woman and would not even think about hiring a male for the position. Also there was about $1.50 difference in the pay the employer mentioned to the male and female.
Sunday, October 18, 2009
Domestic Violence
This blog will be about the class discussion on Thursday and some of the reading assignments. These reading assignments were about domestic violence and how that males abuse females all comes down to power. They want to control their wives, girlfriends and families and it all is just a big cycle. He abuses the female, he continues and then he makes up and says things such as “I’m sorry it won’t happen again” and he will buy her items or make it all special and a few months later he is back from the start. She continues to take him back, she does not see how mistreated she is.
I also didn’t realize how much of a big issue stalking was not only on campus but in today’s society. I guess I just over look or just not think about these things but now I am more aware of the issue which will benefit me. Having a stalker is very serious and can be life threatening most of the time. What would you do if you have a stalker? Could you go the cops? I do not think there is that much help out there if you do have a stalker issue because you have to have evidence that you are being stalked. I wonder why people stalk others.
Domestic violence is such a terrible thing that will just continue throughout history. Women have been killed, raped, beaten, etc. and it still continues. I think if we continue to have domestic violence awareness maybe one day it will get better. Actually, this past Wednesday was domestic violence awareness day and at DUC they were handing out purple ribbons and had signs and statics about domestic violence which is a step to bringing more people aware about it.
I also didn’t realize how much of a big issue stalking was not only on campus but in today’s society. I guess I just over look or just not think about these things but now I am more aware of the issue which will benefit me. Having a stalker is very serious and can be life threatening most of the time. What would you do if you have a stalker? Could you go the cops? I do not think there is that much help out there if you do have a stalker issue because you have to have evidence that you are being stalked. I wonder why people stalk others.
Domestic violence is such a terrible thing that will just continue throughout history. Women have been killed, raped, beaten, etc. and it still continues. I think if we continue to have domestic violence awareness maybe one day it will get better. Actually, this past Wednesday was domestic violence awareness day and at DUC they were handing out purple ribbons and had signs and statics about domestic violence which is a step to bringing more people aware about it.
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