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Monday, November 12, 2012

Croteau Media and Ideology

Connections and Hyperlinks
After reading this article "Media and Ideology" it definitely made me feel like I could relate it to past articles that we read and discussed.  For example it reminded me of the article "What Little Boys Are Made Of" because that article talks about society and the influences things have on boys today. Such as toys and what we teach and expect boys to grow up and be like. 
Another article that I thought about was "Cinderella Ate My Daughter" because this article talked about how mothers are teaching their little girls at a young age to love the color pink, want to be like a princess, and become a housewives based on the toy selection in stores.
These videos posted above are 3 TV shows on MTV that influence teenagers and anyone that watches them.  The shows are 16 and pregnant, teen mom along with teen mom 2, and Jersey Shore, I know Jersey Shore doesn't portray that good of a message. Instead it basically portrays people getting paid to party, drink, and have sex. So teenagers who watch this get the idea that this is okay and they should go along with it.

Election... Yay Obama!!!


 My election experience was probably not like most of you guys. I got to work the polls so my job was sitting outside and instructing people to go once they got into the building. I was set up at Goff Junior High School in Pawtucket, RI from 6:00am-8:30pm. It was interesting to hear what people were talking about after they would finish voting. Some people were talking about Romney winning while others were like Obama's gonna bring home the victory,  4 more years.
Of course I also got to see people flip out when they found out that they don't vote here anymore because everyone in Pawtucket got redistricted. Some people were so upset after waiting in line for 30 minutes to hear this that they came out saying their not gonna vote at all because this is ridiculous. Others just took measures in their own hand by ripping out a sign saying vote here with an arrow point to the entrance door and then throwing it down the sewer.

By the end of the day once we closed and we were tallying up the totals for our polling place I was watching our counters face expressions as each number and person was called. If you don't know what a counter is a counter is 1-2 people who are sent our from election headquarters for each candidate to record the amount of numbers for that person at that specific site.  Many were shocked with the numbers we got for Obama compared to Romney.Obama was up by at least 100 votes. After we got all that settled and we packed everything up I rushed back to RIC to await the announcement of who our next president is  and hear the speeches. In the car I even started debating with my parents why Obama should win over Romney and lets just say the conversation was intense.  Once in my dorm I waited nervously to hear who the next president would be, with my fingers crossed that Obama would pull it off. The second they announced he was the President I was so thrilled! All mt friends that were in the common room watching it with me were just staring at me like I was crazy. I was like aren't you all excited that hes president again for 4 more years? They replied where not that big into politics so its whatever. That's when I realized that what got me so interested and invested in this election was this class and having to work on this election project. Before doing this I had no idea who I should vote for but after examining both sides and issues they stood for I felt like I had a good idea of who I was voting for and felt more interested in watching the debates and rooting for Obama to pull off another win.

Sex Postivity


These 2 websites http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-positive_feminism and http://www.thefrisky.com/2012-05-09/8-ways-to-be-positive-youre-sex-positive/  were very interesting to read and look at for me. I never heard of the term sex-positive feminism used before so I was unsure of what it stood for. From my understanding sex-positive feminism is having sexual freedom, meaning your free to have sex or not and control what you do in terms of sex.  As stated by Wikipedia, “sex-positive feminists oppose legal or social efforts to control sexual activities between consenting adults, whether these efforts are initiated by the government, other feminists, opponents of feminism, or any other institution”.   Sex-positive feminism is against pornography, sex work and BDSM. I really wish that pornography wasn’t so easy to get access to because little kids using the computer might click on something not knowing what it is and a porn site might pop up. Do we really want children to be watching this stuff at a young age?

I thought that Rachel Rabbit White's: 8 Ways To Be Positive You're Sex Positive was a good example for people to ready because some people feel as though sex is a bad thing but Rachel makes sure she states in the beginning, that “Having sex is healthy, but so is not having sex”. It’s all your preference on how comfortable you feel and whether the person is asexual or gray-sexual.  In my opinion she provides 8 well-reasoned points that make you think about sex in different ways that you might not have previously thought about. I know I can say that I definitely was cautious when it came to having sex but luckily the guy I was dating for a long time didn’t push me into anything  instead he waited till I finally felt comfortable and our relationship grew stronger after that.