Bog 7: GeNdEr InEqUaLiTy

After analyzing the reading #22, I have concluded that the article was right to say that there are two worlds in the education system and they continue to separate the genders.  Yes, both genders in the class should be treated equally, but aren’t and yes things get out of hand in class as far as discussion goes and rules are not constantly enforced regardless of the gender of the students’.  In the end it’s the teacher’s role to treat all students’ equally regardless if one kid jumped out of turn and was a male or a female.  We are also talking about a classroom and a learning environment and children and us as humans are naturally curious.  We want to get answers, answer questions, and try to figure things out.  Schools need structure, but isn’t there a way to work on making the classroom more gender neutral or have classes designated for each gender to work on certain traits that each gender has troubles with.  For example, men have a hard time connecting topics because we don’t add as much emotions as women do and women working on understanding the true definition of womanhood and what it means.  These are just some examples, but I think having specific courses for each gender might help or allow for a little more discussion in class. 

            Here is a little comedic relief defining what men’s and women’s brains look like:

Blog 6: PrIvIlEgE & PoVeRtY

For years, upon years, upon years, we have seen so many lay-offs, so many businesses dying, and for what?  The new advancement in technology, the placement of super corporations that create machines to do work for people?  The less quality of our products?  Yes, I know I sound pretty synical and negative, but look around you.  We now have to have Affordable Healthcare for people.  We have had to forget about the quality of work and worry about the quantity of a product.  When was the last time you have seen a “Made in America” sticker on any product we currently sell or own at this point?  Privilege…, Privilege is having the money that other people don’t have.  Privilege is having that cool new swimming pool that poor little Billy doesn’t have.  Privilege is the route of envy, jealousy, and judgment towards someone who has more than I do. Every day we see commercials of the wealthy, rich, and the popular and no one says, “I have had enough of this garbage, or I am sick and tired of caring about what someone else looks like or what they have and what I don’t have”.  We will always live in an imperfect world, but we have the power to change the way we look at it and what is really happening.  “Money is the route of all evil”.

Poverty, the way I look at it, look at the starving kids in Africa, India, or anywhere like those places, that to me is the essence of poverty.  Yes, they don’t live in America and yes, they are not free, so look there really is no contest for those who are far worse living than us here in the U.S.  Now our poverty is the Lower and part of the Working Class.  The minimum wage was never intended for people to live off of to begin with.  Minimum wage was a small wage that could eventually grow due to raises and promotions.  The problem is that not many companies or employers are giving out those promotions or dollar raises anymore due to business and the economy and cost efficiency.  Now we need Assiociate degrees, Bachelor Degrees to be able to make over $15/hr.  Now those jobs are now getting limited, due to the amount of people getting degrees.  Then if you get a Masters or Doctorate you get paid a pretty big salary and an abundance of perks like insurances’, paid vacation days, 401K’s, etc, but those jobs are rarely hiring, or a tough to get.  There is so much to be fixed, but no one is really making that big of an effort to do it.  Even if they are, they won’t sacrifice their own status or power/money to do it.

Blog 5: SeXuAl ObJeCtIfIcAtIoN

This last weekend has been a struggle for me on the relationally, socially, and emotionally.  After the dust settled and the drama slowly disappeared, I realized that there is nothing you can do to stop men from objectifying women and women objectifying men.  Now before you lynch me I would like to explain myself and I have a little story to tell about this previous weekend.

We see women objectified every day, on T.V., movies, video games, and products that have nothing to do with sex that get sexified.  You can really see the sexual objectification when you go to the bars and at parties.  Men will drool over the nicest butt they see or the nicest pair of melons a women has, mix alcohol and the lost consciousness and you see why sex sells.  I went to the bars Friday night with some friends and after having a few drinks before the bars I kind of let myself go, but I was slowly losing the high that the alcohol was giving me to the point that I cared about the women in the bars and how many of them were going to be taken advantage of when they were there and after.  I had a girl friend who wasn’t drunk and was pretty sober and earlier we had a nice talk about her old self and how she wanted to stop letting men take advantage of her and how she wanted to change and I promised to protect her from being taken advantage of and I admit it I had feeling for this girl, earlier that day we went to a fish fry, went to the UWSP basketball game, and I even got to meet her parents and it was an overall awesome time, but as soon as the alcohol hit me and my other friends it was only a matter of time till stuff was going to happen.  I remembered my promise to her even when I was drinking and my feelings for her were still very much present.  I saw one of my friends dancing with her and I was really upset and I knew I couldn’t do anything and she wasn’t doing anything about it even though I told her over 3 times that we could leave if she wasn’t having fun and she did not look like she was.  We get back to our own separate rooms and what do you know she lets him in her room and I was kind of heart broken.  I am a guy so there is always that sexual drive, but I truly cared and I was disappointed in her and jealous of the other guy, but all I could do was text her how she let the “old” her take over and that’s all I said. This all coming from a male's point of view.

Out of all that and the topic of Microagression/Sex Objectification is that both parties sexually objectify one another, yes, men do it more to women, but it’s still their regardless of the location or the situation.

Check out my video, I know its long and maybe my story doesn’t fit the topic that well, but look at how men and women act at bars and that is proof enough of Sex/Self Objectification.