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Blog Post 12

 In class we watched two videos about people being photoshopped to meet beauty standards. The people I will be talking about are Freddie and Eugene. Freddie talks about how she was insecure when she was younger. She wanted lighter skin and felt like she was too skinny. Now that she is older, she is not sure she would like a photoshopped version of herself. They changed her skin to be lighter, and made her butt and breasts bigger. She says the lighter skin caught her by surprise. She gets everything she wanted when she was younger, but would rather stay the way she is. It makes her sad that she was so insecure, but says she learns she is satisfied with her appearance now.  Eugene talks about how he has been picked on for his looks his entire life and isn't happy with how he looks. He says he isn't sure comparing himself to a photo of a celebrity with big muscles is very healthy. They give him bigger, more toned muscles. After seeing the photoshopped picture he says he thinks hi...
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Blog Post 11

 Both Cameron Russell and Tom Chiarella talk about how your appearance effect your experiences. Tom Chiarella dresses in the uniforms of four different professions to see how people react. One  interpersonal/relationship example of when he does this is when he dresses like a priest people automatically feel comfortable enough asking for advice from him, and feel like they're his friend. When he dresses like a security guard it's the opposite. People avoid eye contact, and don't talk to him. An economic example is when he dresses as a mechanic he gets no attention from anyone. This shows that working class people blend in, and people don't pay attention to them. Cameron Russell talks about her experiences in relation to her beauty. She even starts her talk by changing her outfit from a tight black dress and tall heels, to a long skirt, flats, and a long sleeve shirt. She did this to demonstrate that what she's wearing changes how people perceive her. She explains tha...
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Blog Post 10

 In class we learned some misconceptions people believe about weddings. One of these misconceptions is that big white weddings are a very old tradition. In the video "Adam Ruins Weddings" Adam explains this tradition has only been around for about a century, and began when Queen Victoria got married in a white dress to show off her wealth. Another thing the wedding industry plants in our minds is that the more money a couple spends on a wedding, the happier their marriage will be. In the same video Adam reveals that couples who spend more money on a wedding are actually more likely to divorce. In the ABC video "Wedding Confidential" they discover that companies will charge more if they know their service/product is being used for a wedding. The example they used was a DJ hired for a birthday party was almost 50% cheaper than the same DJ hired for a wedding.
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Blog Post 9

Rehtaeh Parsons and Belle Knox shared similar experiences. They were both bullied and sent hate messages from classmates. Rehtaeh experienced bullying by her classmates to the point that she transferred high schools. Belle was sent hateful comments by classmates, but also received hateful comments from other porn stars.  One difference is why they were bullied. Belle Knox was looked down upon because she made pornography films to pay her tuition, and was exposed for doing so by a "friend". Rehtaeh Parsons was bullied because she was raped at a party. Someone took a picture of her while being assaulted, and shared the photo to people at her school. A lot of people said she wasn't really raped, and called her a slut. Belle was also a victim of sexual assault. She doesn't go into a lot of detail about it other than her assaulter never faced consequences. She was raped before she became a porn star. Another difference between their experiences is that Rehtaeh's situat...
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Blog Post 8

The article "What Teenagers are Learning from Online Porn" highlights some common misconceptions high school students have from watching porn online.  One misconception a girl had was that all women in porn felt pleasure. It said "But what she learned from porn had downsides too. Because she assumed women’s pleasure in porn was real, when she first had intercourse and didn’t have an orgasm, she figured that was just how it went." She believed she couldn't experience the "pleasure" women in porn experienced, because she didn't get the same results when she recreated porn. In the porn literacy class, the students learned that the porn stars are acting and probably feel pain. When she was a little older and more experienced she quit watching porn altogether because she didn't like looking at the women's' faces knowing they probably didn't feel good. She told the interviewer she had a new mission, which was to always orgasm during sex. ...
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Blog Post 7

       I believe colleges should not pay their athletes. In the debate video "Should College Athletes be Paid?" Christine Brennan talks about the Title 9 law which states you have to treat men and women athletes the same. So if you pay one sport, you'll have to pay all of them. This is a strong argument because it is a law, and colleges would get in serious trouble if they broke it. A potential weakness in this argument is that colleges could easily cut sports, or pay their players a low wage.  Another point is that most colleges in America don't make profits from their athletics. According to the video, in 2012 only 23/228 division 1 schools made a profit from their sports. These are proven statistics, however this data is a little outdated.  Students are going to college to get an education, so education should be the main focus. If you start paying the students it will take the attention away from their school work. The weakness with this argument is tha...
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Blog Post 6

The documentary "Football High" discusses the problems with high school football. Many of these problems involve the safety of the students playing. One specific issue is the amount of head injuries. Concussions aren't uncommon when playing football, especially in high school. The documentary discusses how helmets aren't created to prevent concussions, they're to prevent a crack in the skull. Scientist in the film talk about a disease called CTE, which is essentially when the brain starts to deteriorate due to being hit repeatedly over a period of time. A solution to this is to stop encouraging the athletes to be so violent while playing. One student says he used to use his head on purpose to hit his opponents. Another student says the coaches would tell them to play violently. If coaches instead taught them how to play without being violent, it would be less likely to get a concussion. However, the video explains that coaches do not get rewarded for keeping the s...
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