Thursday, December 3, 2009
Reflections on Gender in the Classroom
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Reflections on discussion with Parisi and Bishop
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Can I have a pair of Gender lenses?
Has anyone stopped to count the number of ads in your favorite magazine or sitcom?
What type of ads/commericals are present? How do they portray each gender?
Have you stopped to watch a sitcom through the gender lens?
Is there any truth to what Tyson says about "good girls" and "bad girls" in the shows we watch? How is our society patriarchal?
What are some ways that women and men buy into the patriarchy? What are some ways that they rebel?
How is our language patriarchal?
And what about our schools and classrooms. I thought I'd share a study by the University of New Hampshire to get us started. And I also found sites exploring gender and math and gender roles in the workplace.
How deeply embedded are "traditional" gender roles?Sunday, September 27, 2009
Marxism in Art?
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Is this Russia?
Fact Check: Decoding Obama's Health Care Plan
The Truth--Lott's Numbers, Part II
The Obama Plan
After what we've read in Chapter 3 and what you've learned about Obama's Health Care Plan, what are your thoughts?
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Guilt: It's all your fault.
Innocence is said to be the complete opposite of guilt; innocence is freedom from corruptness and guilt is the result of its presence.
There are three types of guilt: real guilt, neurotic guilt, and false guilt. Real guilt comes from feeling bad about choosing the “wrong thing” in accordance with one’s beliefs in a controllable situation. Neurotic guilt is when an individual blames themselves for every wrong happening in their life. False guilt is when one feels responsible for everything, including situations he/she is not involved in.
Some things that guilt causes include anxiety, depression, fainting (this may be connected to Dante!), insomnia, eating disorders, other self-destructive behaviors, and hallucinations.
Guilt is also seen in a positive light as it teaches society lessons, help individuals overcome conflicts (like core issues), works as a great motivator (guilt trips), and also regulates social behavior.
When we feel guilty, we feel as though we’ve fallen short of our moral standards, but who REALLY sets these standards? What relieves the burden of guilt? And who is able to be deemed innocent?
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Who Art Thou Thy True Lady MacBeth?
Queen Gruoch was the granddaughter of a former King of Scotland, Kenneth III. With her first husband, Gillecomgain or Gille Coemgáin (it was spelled both ways),they fathered one child, Lulach; he became king later in life for less than a year and was nicknamed “The Fool”. Gillecomgain, however, was killed in a fire accident in 1032. After Gillecomgain died, Queen Gruoch remarried his cousin, MacBeth.
Monday, September 21, 2009
"Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog.."
This is one of the many quotes of the three witches in Macbeth. The witches foreshadow what Macbeth was feeling in the play. They represent the main theme of evil In Macbeth. Due to the portrayal of witches in Macbeth, the actual curse was formed by “witches” in the audience of the first performance in 1606.
Now the curse has taken over the play itself. It is said that if you speak the name Macbeth outside of the script, it will bring bad luck and tragedies to the play. To take back the name, and reverse the bad luck, you have to go outside and spin around 3 times yelling a profane word then knock on the door of the theatre requesting permission to come back in. Other techniques include, quoting a line from Hamlet, or spitting over your shoulder.
To avoid using the name Macbeth, people have often used “The Scottish Play” to refer to to it.
There is one person who believed he released the curse of Macbeth, Kevin Carlyon is the self proclaimed High priest of the British white witches. With the help of two "witch" assistants, he is certain that he has gotten rid of the curse, but no information has been posted about recent macbeth tragedies.
An·drog·y·ny
Have you ever seen someone walking down the street and thought, Are they a male of female? They would be androgynous. The definition of Androgyny is "Having both female and male characteristics; hermaphroditic. 2. Being neither distinguishably masculine nor feminine, as in dress, appearance, or behavior" (dictionary.com). More recent well known cases of this is the runner from Jamaica, Caster Semenya. She was going to have her medals taken away from her because she looked more masculine than feminine. After many tests they concluded that she was indeed a woman but they still wanted to strip her of her medals and declared that she was not to participate in competitive sports again. While being one sex, yet looking like another can be hard to live with an overcome, yet some comedians feel the need to make fun of it. Like Saturday Night Live (SNL) had an ongoing skit with a character named Pat, and it was a joke to figure out whether or not Pat was a boy or a girl. Observations have led to the discovery that more and more androgynist women are prevalent in society today.
Food for thought: do you notice that more and more women or men today look androgynous?