5 days till HALLOWWEEENNN!

Hello, This past week was the most frustrating week yet. I had way to many things going on. I didn't have to meet at the house last week but our talk in class was pretty good. We talked about how to do our paper and the reading Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power. When i think about erotica, I think sex and porn. But the article says it can be anything flashy, art or lyrics. It's both physical and emotional. It the intro to sex. They say erotic is a big ball of emotion and electricity and porn is emotionless. She uses margarine because it's white and then the yellow spreads. Erotic is not nasty and everyone should get in touch.
We watch the Rachel Madow show and they talked about a girl name Jamie Johns and she was drugged and raped in Iraq she was part of the army. She can't sew because of what she signed. They are trying to have a law to the constitution and people actually voted against it but not one of them would go on the show and tell why.
Lastly, we watched a slide show of a bunch of nakedness. By watching these pictures I started to see how badly they degrade girls and how they think that girls are nothing but toys basically. I also thought it was nuts that guys have a thing for Innocent young girls and like "baby" stuff. Ew!!! Other than that class went well and can't wait to see everyone tomorrow!

Yah Women Studies!!!

Last week was an interesting week. Groups 1 & 2 met at the house and we had some fun and entertaining stories. We were to have read part 5. The article that stuck out the most to me was Rape as Social Murder. This was a sad but true story. In this article she talked about her personal experience with rape. While she got raped she talked about how the rapist told her why he was doing it and after he offered her a ride to the hospital and said she didn't have to move that he would keep her safe and tell her what type of window locks she should have. "He blamed me for the beating, and then acted as my protector and caretaker" Scary! The author had mentioned that "not challenging the rapist was a mechanism of self-defence". I believe this because if you don't fight back then the rapist gets what he wants and then will leave. The reason the author called this "social murder" is because the rapist has mad her believe that it was her fault, that she did something to deserve it and just being violated makes you feel dead.
Another story that was interesting was Trends in Delinquent Girls' Aggression and Violent Behavior: A Review of the Evidence. This story talked about the pattern in girls delinquency. They talk the increase in arrest for violent chimes girls carrying weapons, robbery, theft and assault. They think its because "the aggression and violence has historically been ignored". The also think that sexual and physical abuse could also be a reason of of this. Over all the article had a lot of stats and that girls' behavior hasn't changed it's just been ignored.
The last article, Making Feminist Sense of an American Military Scandal was about the American women and men that were prison guards were humiliating and torturing Iraqi men in prison. They were making the men pile naked and took pictures of the women smiling. This was really disturbing to me because it was the women that were torturing the men and treating them like a joke.
I also remember someone talking about the 6 year old boy in the balloon and I CANNOT believe he wasn't really in the balloon. INSTEAD he was hiding in the attic of the house. THOSE PARENTS ARE NUTS... now they have to leave their child for 6 years all because they wanted a TV series out of it. PEOPLE THESE DAYS! Welps see ya in class Thurs.!

Women Lives

Hello! Last week I feel we had a good discussion in class. I enjoyed talking about the things in the news paper and the creepy guy that got arrested for taking pictures of the WKU cheerleaders. I also enjoyed talking about Britney Spears and her sweet new song! In part three I really liked the article 9 "Woman Sitting at the Machine, Thinking". This article really had me thinking at first. I had to read it a few times before I actually understood what it was about. When I read the article it talked about trying to type really fast and thinking at the same time about a bunch of different things. I couldn't possibly do that. This poem is about a lady that works and works and works and gets very little money for it and they don't really care about her. Another article was the "Not Just a Paper Doll". This article I really liked to read as well. In class I liked how we talked about the models and how they are so small and that they have to sell them self. They have to always lose weight and be a certain size to fit in. Also most models are female and that has a lot to do with what we talk about. When you think of a model you think "female" I liked a quote in this article, " It's all about selling yourself" This is true modeling is a challenge and you have to be the perfect size and height and basically give yourself away. Most models bodies are basically owned by an clients or agents and they have control on what you look like and your weight. The things girls do to model is crazy to me and I can't see why anyone would do it.
We talked about how girls also are easy to take what they can get. I personally am not that way but many girls get hired for less money because they know that they will not fight for more and take it. Where guys always want more. In the work force males get payed more then women but I feel that It has a lot to do with girls letting people push them around. They feel they have no power and should take what they get. A lot of businesses know a lot about those who apply for a job and if they find a single mother of 3 children they already think she will take what she can get because she needs a job. I don't think its fair at all. They shouldn't know your situations.
That's all I have today. Can't wait to see everyone in class tomorrow!!! :)