7. Perfection

Hi everyone=)
I thought a lot about the beauty subject. Also I read the other blog pages and watched the dove commercial on Hazal's page. I remembered that video and in my opinion that commercial tells everything about the media pressure and "magic of computer-touching". With this kind of advertisements media impose physical perfection on women and young girls. For example many women envy the model bodies because media shows us models and their "perfect bodies" in everywhere. However their bodies are genetically thin and we want to be like them. So women start to make diets because of the blind diets women become anorexia. Media tells us these things and we try to achieve success. By the way in commercials we all see perfect breasts because "breasts sell absolutely everything" tells Jean Kilbourne (Killing us softly). So women begin to change their breast sizes with creams and plastic surgery (thanks God!:)). Women become more pleasurable and lose sensations in breasts so people don't realize that but women are becoming an object of someone else's pleasure. Men do nothing with their bodies because they think that their body good the way it is. There is no pressure for them. There are many inequality between genders and in recent years some of them are overcomed.
See you in the next entry:)

6."Ideal Beauty"

Media and advertisement are in everywhere in our lives. When we on the bus or are watching TV, movie, we can see and we are forced to see these advertisements. Because of this individuals are susceptible to media influence. Media and it's advertisements sell products in concept of sexuality or in romance and advertising tells us who we are or should be! Media tells us about the women ,how females look or ideal female beauty in our society and how it is important for a woman being beautiful. When women failed she should shame and should feel guilty about that. For example in recent years computers creat "ideal beauty/ ideal woman" so computers creat woman which is not exist at all and in the film "Killing us softly 3 ", Jean Kilbourne mentioned that too. She mentioned that media influences the fellings of men for women. Woman body turns to an object. The consequenses of such a behaviour is violence against women. For example woman body becomes a bottle of alcohol in an advertisement and females are not fully human with that objectification. So far I have never realized such an exploitation of female body and this film attract my attention.

5. Tough guise

I watched the film " Tough Guise" today. The film is like a documantry i think and very interesting in many ways. The subject is an actual subject and very informative.
At the beginning the narrator Jackson Katz makes a definition about the words "tough" and "guise". He says that the toughness based on extreme notion of masculinity and he has right because the meaning of tough become real men and the culture become more dominant. When I want to describe the word "masculinity", some words like powerful, tough, strong, macho came in my mind and in the video many people use these words to describe masculinity.
People learn it from their family, community but significantly from the media system. Media says that "being men= being violent". So young men become tough to survive and to be a real men.
I've never realized the change in size of male toys before I watched the video. It is a very interesting way to impose "masculinity, strentgh" in visually. There are bigger biceps etc. that represent more masculinity and violence. On the other hand female toys become much thinner and these inequallity on size of toys shows us the greater value on the size and shape.
Gun imagery become bigger, too. In 40's it was much smaller than 90's.
In the film Jackon talks about the kid-shooting or school-shooting. Kids killing kids and mostly the killers are the boys as New York Times mentioned. I noted down an expression of a killer boy and he says "I killed people because people like me are mistreated everyday". It is heartbreking but it is reality.
I want to write many thing about that subject but under a different topic=)

4. About ENG 101

In my ENG 101 class with Sonja is quite more fun than I expected. I learned how to make critics about stories, how to use citation, how to us APA format etc. The most significant part is that I have a blog page and I started to blogging in my own page as a blogger:) Today we learned image using too. I had no idea about copyright and to use an image properly before. I am quite sure that our future lessons will help me to improve my language skills as well as my analyzing skills.

3. A Woman on a Roof

The writer, Doris Lessing wrote an unusual short story. The subject is contemporary and mentions that how some men view women. There are three different male characters and each of them react and deal with the rejection from a woman with specific methods. The three men work on a roof of building and peep the neighbour woman, while she was sunbathing with her bikinis. The workers are: Harry, Tom and Stanley. Even the temperature is high they prefer to work on the roof for watching her. The woman on the roof ignore the three man at all. Next day the weather has changed and there is no sunbathers on the roof. The three men annoy the woman with the way their looks and they disturb her private life.
We can see more examples on the streets many male disturb womens while she was walking. It is very annoying. Also we can see the inequality between the male and female.