Body Image

With the whole body image issue that we are talking about in class is a very important topic that we need to cover. Many young girls are having issues with their bodies and the media and television aren't helping the younger girls with the way they look at their body. By watching all these skinny beautiful girls, they xtfeel like to get the guy and be pretty, they have to look exactly like all these "perfect" women. When in reality they aren't real, these girls are being airbrushed into what the media sees as the all time woman. I think that we need to start teaching kids at a much younger age about their bodies, and how the magazines aren't what real people look like. The younger we start. the less eating disorders girls will have. It is ridiculous how young these girls are that are having issues with thier body issues.

Video

The video that we watched in our last class was very powerful towards women. It showed that women can be rockers too. We can rock out, it's not just a man thing. I noticed the age difference that there was between the girls. There were many young girls that went to this rocker camp, however there were also a few teenage girls that attended this camp as well. Girls tend to get more angry with eachother than guys do, with the bands that were created between all the kids, almost every one had an argument going on. Most of the arguments were about which one of the girls was in charge of the band, and who was the leader. However, the leaders of each group found a way to make everyone agree and get along with eachother so that it all worked out in the end.

Girl Zines

The whole girls zines pamphlet books and articles is a great idea I thought. This is a way for women to express what they are feeling so that everyone else can read their thoughts and understand that they aren't the only ones who think a certain way about a subject. It's harder for women to express how they feel out loud with someone in person, so being able to express that on paper for anyone to read, makes it much more easier for those feelings to be shown. And then when someone came up with the idea to make it an internet post thing, was genius. This way so much more people could read their blogs and it is much more easier access than having to make a booklet, when now you can just type it on the internet for millions to see. It was a great idea and should be used more so that everyone can see what us women go through

Pop culture

I think that it is crazy what women will do nowadays to get a little bit of fame. What they are willing to do to get noticed or put on tv or even the magazines. In these days some women will strip or flash people to get beads or their picture taken. If we went back in time no one would ever have done that, its not seen as something okay to do. Ever since porn or the playboy mansion came around the media has made it look as though it is okay to take your clothes off in public, times have changed so much and it is becoming a little ridiculous I think. Also the way women are "supposed" to look like to be noticed by men, or thought of as hott. You have to have the perfect body, great hair, big boobs, wear hardly any clothes. This is how most men look for women they want, I just don't think it's right. It shouldn't matter about the looks it should be about what's on the insude and their personality.

Why I took this class

I took women studies because I thought it would be very interesting and I wanted to learn more about genders and how both work. Male and female have very different brains and think differently. I think that it is interesting how males are thought of as stronger and more dependent. The words that our class came up with for males were strong, muscles, working out, weight lifting, independence, black, non-emotional. And then when we came up with women it was all about flowers and pink and emotional, cranky, dependent on men. I just think that it is interesting the different perspectives that people have about the different genders and the stereotypes there are out there for men and women.

Women's Studies

I am learning so much from this class, most of it is information that I already knew but from the chapters that I have read, I am learning more about womens rights and what women stand for and our rights. All of the reading material so far has been about how women have been known for housewives and doing cleaning and cooking, which the men aren't supposed to be doing. The men go to work and then come home to a home-cooked meal from their wives with the house already cleaned and spotless. It was very rare for the women to have the jobs and the men to stay home, that most likely never happened. Women in many years before this time were meant for house work and thats about it, they were not expected to have jobs outside of the house that was what the men were for, to make the money while the women were home taking care of the children and the men worked.