http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/fashion/10Cultural.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
This is an article about how "mean girl bullying" can begin as young as grade school. Most of the time, the bullying starts because one person is different from the "group in charge". Chapter 9 discusses cultural restrictions on civil interactions and how it affects communication between people. People who are similar tend to stick together or form a group, the problem is when they get powerful and dominant. Those dominant group will then reject (and in this case bully) anyone who is different from them. In the case of this article, many of the girls affected by the mean girls wear different clothing labels or prefer different kinds of music. Unfortunately, intolerance is evident in the younger years.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Chapter 9 Blog Post #2
Above is a very early picture of Courtney Love and her band Hole. Courtney Love is known for many things, but one positive thing is that she helped usher in the "riot grrl" movement. Chapter 9 discusses consciously creating and performing gender and Courtney Love is an example. With her tattered babydoll dresses, smeared makeup, and rough, aggressive music, she chose to create a new style of gender rather than agreeing or modifying it. Although her looks could be classified as "feminine" it was a warped kind of femininity. It was making a statement that women could be tough and rock too and they didn't have to play by the rules of society to do so. She helped to bring change to the music scene, and to society.
Chapter 9 Blog Post #1
http://learnfinancialplanning.com/famous-people-who-didnt-go-to-college/
Chapter 9 addresses the idea of hegemonic perspectives. Hegemonic perspectives are ideas/beliefs that society has that are dominant. They seem concrete, fixed, and not eligible for compromise. The idea of adopting christianity (without fully announcing it, just implementing certain aspects of christianity like opening with a prayer), and going to college are all hegemonic perspectives. Even though there is no law or rule that says this has to happen, it is treated as such. I have included an article that refutes the hegemonic perspective that everyone has to go to college to be successful. Even though college is not 100% necessary for success (more like 80%) many people feel pressured into going. The article states that there are quite a few successful people who have dropped out of/ or not went out of college (ie. Mark Zuckerberg and Henry Ford respectively). Of course, people should not skip out on college because they believe they will be millionaires or billionaires, but they should not feel the pressure society puts on them to go.
Chapter 9 addresses the idea of hegemonic perspectives. Hegemonic perspectives are ideas/beliefs that society has that are dominant. They seem concrete, fixed, and not eligible for compromise. The idea of adopting christianity (without fully announcing it, just implementing certain aspects of christianity like opening with a prayer), and going to college are all hegemonic perspectives. Even though there is no law or rule that says this has to happen, it is treated as such. I have included an article that refutes the hegemonic perspective that everyone has to go to college to be successful. Even though college is not 100% necessary for success (more like 80%) many people feel pressured into going. The article states that there are quite a few successful people who have dropped out of/ or not went out of college (ie. Mark Zuckerberg and Henry Ford respectively). Of course, people should not skip out on college because they believe they will be millionaires or billionaires, but they should not feel the pressure society puts on them to go.
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Ch 8 Blog Post #3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuNIsY6JdUw
Last but not least is the music video for Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me' song. In it, she starts off as an average girl who is in love with the boy next door. However, the boy next door has a girlfriend that does not appreciate him but is an alpha female in some respects (a cheer captain) and in the song Swift compares herself to her saying "she wears high heels, I wear sneakers, she's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers". The normal girl is invisible and seen as just a friend by the object of her affection, until she decides to acquiesce to the responses she gets and goes through a makeover at the end of the video. Only then does she get the guy. She reworked her performance to conform to the view of society which says that the stereotypical idea of beauty is necessary to win a guy.
Last but not least is the music video for Taylor Swift's "You Belong With Me' song. In it, she starts off as an average girl who is in love with the boy next door. However, the boy next door has a girlfriend that does not appreciate him but is an alpha female in some respects (a cheer captain) and in the song Swift compares herself to her saying "she wears high heels, I wear sneakers, she's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers". The normal girl is invisible and seen as just a friend by the object of her affection, until she decides to acquiesce to the responses she gets and goes through a makeover at the end of the video. Only then does she get the guy. She reworked her performance to conform to the view of society which says that the stereotypical idea of beauty is necessary to win a guy.
Ch 8 Blog Post #2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSee8On2lEQ
The above link is a trailer for a movie call Prayers for Bobby. I chose it because it is an example of the Chapter 8 idea of persuasion, rejection, harassment and maintaining. The story is about a Christian family with a strong Christian wife/mother whose youngest son reveals that he is gay. She tries everything in her power to change or convert him, but in the end decides to give up on him as her son. She would try to persuade him and her efforts were almost bordering on harassing. Through it all, her son chose to maintain who he was even though it was a very difficult decision to make. He chose himself.
The above link is a trailer for a movie call Prayers for Bobby. I chose it because it is an example of the Chapter 8 idea of persuasion, rejection, harassment and maintaining. The story is about a Christian family with a strong Christian wife/mother whose youngest son reveals that he is gay. She tries everything in her power to change or convert him, but in the end decides to give up on him as her son. She would try to persuade him and her efforts were almost bordering on harassing. Through it all, her son chose to maintain who he was even though it was a very difficult decision to make. He chose himself.
Ch 8 Blog Post #1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebaFd53yO40&feature=relmfu
Chapter 8 talks about the various responses to performance reviews. One of which is adapting. I chose part of the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding to demonstrate (even though it does not contain all the parts I would prefer). The protagonist, Toula, starts off the film as a 30 year old woman always being told by her very traditional father that she needs to get married soon because she is starting to look old. She describes herself as "frump girl". Later on, she meets a handsome guy and decides to turn her life around and get a makeover. The words and constant verbal attack from her father serve as motivation for her to change, or adapt. She modifies her performance by changing her outward appearance (and occupation) since she gets negativity from her father.
Chapter 8 talks about the various responses to performance reviews. One of which is adapting. I chose part of the film My Big Fat Greek Wedding to demonstrate (even though it does not contain all the parts I would prefer). The protagonist, Toula, starts off the film as a 30 year old woman always being told by her very traditional father that she needs to get married soon because she is starting to look old. She describes herself as "frump girl". Later on, she meets a handsome guy and decides to turn her life around and get a makeover. The words and constant verbal attack from her father serve as motivation for her to change, or adapt. She modifies her performance by changing her outward appearance (and occupation) since she gets negativity from her father.
Ch 7 Blog Post #3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKZ9um4SRnA
Above is a link to a movie that is a family favorite, Too Wong Foo. This is a story about men in drag and how they change the lives of people in a small town they stop in. Chapter 7 states that your appearance and artifacts helps express your gender identity and helps others put you in a group and develops expectations a s a result. When these men arrived in a small town, they were all decked out in their woman attire complete with suitcases of clothes, shoes, makeup etc. Obviously the people of this town had no idea what to make of them and had seen nothing like it. They were skeptical. Many of them actually thought they were woman. They dressed differently than the woman in the town. They wore more expensive looking clothes with vibrant colors and jewelry. The townspeople didn't know what to make of them and just thought they were women from the city (which they were) that were going to wreak havoc on their sleepy town. But, they actually helped the lives of many of the women in the town.
Above is a link to a movie that is a family favorite, Too Wong Foo. This is a story about men in drag and how they change the lives of people in a small town they stop in. Chapter 7 states that your appearance and artifacts helps express your gender identity and helps others put you in a group and develops expectations a s a result. When these men arrived in a small town, they were all decked out in their woman attire complete with suitcases of clothes, shoes, makeup etc. Obviously the people of this town had no idea what to make of them and had seen nothing like it. They were skeptical. Many of them actually thought they were woman. They dressed differently than the woman in the town. They wore more expensive looking clothes with vibrant colors and jewelry. The townspeople didn't know what to make of them and just thought they were women from the city (which they were) that were going to wreak havoc on their sleepy town. But, they actually helped the lives of many of the women in the town.
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