Tough Guise.....

This film is very interesting and brought up many points that people just do not seem to think about when we learn about violence. What I thought was interesting was the point about the media's influence on our impressions from what we read or see on television. I have been trying to find articles that specifically name the victims in the headlines and keep coming up short. I think about the boys that did all the killings and wonder about the victims part and what if they had been nicer people and not have caused so much trouble. Can we blame the schools for not recognizing bullies and noting their aggressive behavior towards the less than average individuals? Or do we blame the parents of the perpetrators for not noticing that their children had an arsenal of weapons and the minds to use it. It is a blame game that has been going on for decades and is not about to stop. I am just glad that Sociologists are looking at the outlying reasons that can be causing our kids to grow up in a not so happy world.

Dreams do not make it real, do they?

While I was watching this video I was brought back to my youth and reminded of the videos I grew up watching. I thought about what the narrator was saying and found myself disagreeing with his message. He kept calling the women in the videos prostitutes, nymphomaniacs, and dominatrix's like that was what they really were. I kept telling my television that they were not. That they were just portraying these images because they were paid to do so by the person who was making the video. I did not watch them thinking I wanted to be like them. It was entertainment. The thought that men do make videos to attract their audience is not surprising. This is why we go to movies and watch stupid shows on television. It is all about the mighty dollar and what is going to make a lot of it for these people.
When I was a teenager I knew most rock stars were sluts and that they usually liked their women dressed in as little as possible and doing things I would not like my daughter doing today. Yet I still watched. I still cleaned my house to their music, and went to their concerts hoping to get a closer look at them in all their glory. I wonder what videos would be like in the 80's if they were made like the early ones in the 50's or was it 60's. I doubt that I would have wanted to watch them. So should we crucify the men for being smart enough to figure out what would make them the most money or secretively wish I could have been the one to think of it.

A change of pace......

Hello everyone,
I guess I was getting kind of bored and thought we could all use something to make us think about our lives and how different the world is today. There is some pretty interesting stuff on this web site I went to this morning. I have been there for about an hour. Pretty cool. Here is the link...

Ok so the link did not show up....how about copy and paste this address....
http://www.infoplease.com/year/1970.html
It should open on the year I was born. If you scroll to the bottom you can enter in any year you wish, well only the ones available. It gives you a bunch of useful/useless info that I thought was pretty cool. In case you needed a break from the monotony. I know I did.
Michele

Contemplating the colored girl video....

Today was difficult for me to concentrate on the discussion in class. I had a hard time remembering pieces of the video we watched on Monday. The effects of growing older that I have to live with on a daily basis. So anyway, after contemplating everything that was said in class today I have gathered my thoughts. I saw the ladies in the second video in a different light than maybe some of the class. I saw them as predators. They were disturbing to me. They exerted their power over the white man much like the way white men exerted their power over their ancestors. I have taken into consideration the date of the video but still did not see anything that empowered the women in the video. I saw the end of the video in terms of the ladies climbing up the ladder in their ragged clothes as something very opposite than their ascension to power. For me it was weird. I understand the premise of the video but maybe do not understand it in a deeper sense. Maybe my head just wasn't in the right place today. I don't know. Just wanting to share my thoughts. Thanks for listening.