Blog Post for Feb 5

While watching the videos in class this week, it really got me thinking of what advertisements really do. With the "Killing us Softly 3" video, she had a lot of good points about how women are centralized more than what men are. We all pretty much new this but still it was kind of interesting to actually sit down and think about all the advertisements that do include women and not men. I agree with her saying that women are more centralized but does that mean the ladies in general have to listen to what the advertisement is saying? She brought up the point that a lot of teenage girls say they are not how they'd like to look. This is all because of the image we get, just like it was mentioned in "Killing Us Softly". But I do kind of disagree with some of this. For example, when I walk around campus or the mall, wherever, I am probably one of three kids that have on sprint car racing shirts. That defines me as an individual, a redneck kind of, but yet I wear the American Eagle jeans all faded out and with holes in them, so basically I'm a "hick-prep" so to say. But what does that matter, who cares??? I try my hardest not to be like anyone else. I don't wear the same cloths that Brad Pitt does just because every girl thinks he's the cutest guy around. Yes culture changes, but if we let other people tell us what we need to be like, or just to satisfy someone, then there's something wrong. For example, in Culture Jam when the guy breaks up with his girlfriend because she doesn't look like that model he's always thinking about, right there is a prime example. That girl will go out and do whatever she can to look like her just to please him! Heck tell the guy to kiss your butt and find someone that appreciates you for who are and not who they want you to be!

Blog Post for Jan. 29

Based from the "Noise" passage in Culture Jam.

As I was doing a reading assignment for my World History class, my phone went off. I was in the middle of the reading so I just ignored it and tried to get back with the flow of the reading. Then like 5 minutes later, it went off again, of course when I was finally starting to get focused in my material again. So, now I am more interested about what my phone has received whether it's a text or voicemail. So, I checked it out. They were just random messages saying nothing of any importance, but yet it still got all of my attention! Once we hear a noise, it seems like we have to go investigate or find out what it was and we have completely forgotten about what we really should be doing, like me reading my History text! In Culture Jam, it hits the nail on the head with the "Noise" passage. Noise is part of our everyday lives, and we can control a lot of it, but yet we would rather be the curious cat and find out what it was instead of letting it go and focusing on the more important things!

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