"Obsession"

From the class that we had this week, the trailer to the movie "Obsession" really stood out to me, along with our discussion about how stereotypes have come about.  Just from watching that trailer of the movie...scared the hell out of me.  I would never watch that movie willingly, and the fact that people were receiving these movies, for free, in the mail for themselves and their families to watch is insane!  You can completely tell that it is one sided and biased. It's crazy that it was legal for this video to be sent out.  I thought it was funny how the new casters said that it was a must see film and everyone in America will understand the issues after watching it.  It's just crazy how people can be persuaded to believe different things so easily.  That is what is wrong with our society, I'd say.  People believe what they hear from their friends, the radio, newspaper, T.V., etc.  How are you supposed to have your own thoughts and beliefs when you have so many things being shoved in your face to believe.

Something that I thought of while we were discussing the fact that people always generalize Muslims and people that wear headdresses as dangerous and stereotype them as killers, was the emoji that my iPhone has of the "Muslim Man."  What is the purpose of that emoji?  Talk about categorizing people, to the extreme.

Blog 3 "Fag"

After watching the movie from weds, I was irate.  I have seen things like this before, actually on the UWSP Campus promoting these beliefs. These people get under my skin at a completely new level.  The things that they promote and how they state these things are unbelievable.  To run around with signs with the huge letters F.A.G.S written all over them, how is this at all okay?  I'm sure if you really wanted to get your opinion across that badly, you could find a much civilized manner.  How inappropriate and immature.  The thing that really bothers me is that they have children with them holding those signs when I'm sure they don't even know what they are chanting for or against or what the word fag even means.  

And the fact that they say same sex marriage..why can't it all just be marriage?  We are all human beings and love is love.  The views some people have with always appall me.  I say that people can be who they are and like, love, be with who ever they want to be with that will make them happy.  When people like this came to campus they would yell at women that were in rolled in this college and tell them that god hated them because they were showing too much skin or because they shave their legs and cut their hair.  It is just absurd. 

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I really enjoyed breaking into groups and discussing our thoughts about the definitions of sex, gender, and sexuality.  The group I was in had the topic of sexuality.  This is a very touchy and widely discussed topic.  We were going to ask the class their thoughts on sexuality and if they thought that it was a choice or if you were born like the same or opposite sex.  No one in our group could agree on it.. so we figured it would be a very long class discussion. I found out some very interesting things from our group discussion, though.  Such as; the fact that if a boys pens is too small it gets detached and they live their life as a female instead of a male. Also that if you are born with neither a male or female part, your parents get to pick which gender you are... which I think is completely insane! I think that society and the media has shaped our world to think that this is okay, and its not.

I picked this video because it displays how "wrong" it is to be gay and how it needs to be fixed.. it shows and talks about things that are normal for gay men to enjoy or like...or at least that's what straight people think gays like.  He is trying to brain wash him into like females instead... so is being gay genetic then??

BLOG 1 Stages of reality

I thought a very interesting thing that we talked about was the stages of reality.  Thinking deeply about things such as how something became what it is now is a super confusing thing.  I haven't ever thought about why you sit on a chair, which was a class example, or something a little different like why you pour body wash into you bath to make bubbles?  Why and how have things become how they have.  The different stages are 1.) externalization: WE create meaning of things through socializations. 2.) objectification: The creation of this meaning is now becoming known through other people.  3.) Internalization: Everyone learns about this creation and this is what is "right", forever.  Another thing we talked about was the roles of men and women and how men SHOULD BE stronger than women and women SHOULD cook dinner.

Something that happened a few days ago at my serving job was, a man came in and sat at the bar and snapped at me because he wanted a drink, and then continued to tell me to "get used to that" after I gave him a dirty look.  He then told me that women were put on this earth for men anyways.  This is a perfect example of how society has been shaped.