New York Times

The lower east side of New York is filled with live music clubs that range from musicians at the pinnacle of their career or not, fees are free to at least $40. If you're lucky you might get a few drinks free, if you go to the right clubs your wallet has a chance of never even leaving your pocket. Unless you go to a club with a one drink minimum, you can avoid having to do that by being conniving in non capacious places. According to Ben Sisario the waitresses are pretty much ursurped with the way they act about how many drinks you buy. It is possible to fabricate a few lies to get out of it though. You might want to be scrupulous if you're going to go to a lot of different clubs and be divisive in the your selection some are very expensive, but at least your legs wont suffer from atrophy.

The Waiting Room

The message from Lisa Loomer’s The Waiting Room was not about the most perfect women, but most stereotypical to their time period. If this was her intent she did a wonderful job.

In the beginning of the play the characters seem more stereotypical, but then as their sicknesses progress so does their attitude to more of an accepting mood. An example for Victoria is when she goes to see Douglas and he thinks she’s in a good mood. She’s more conservative but even this doesn’t mean she’s calm and put together, but I believe towards the end the play she fully does become calm and accepting. Wanda in the beginning is a little mean to everyone, but at the same time has a low self esteem. She learns to accept the fact that she has cancer, tries the new treatment and starts accepting herself all around. She has breast cancer which was greatly supported by her breast implants. Forgiveness is happy go lucky, but has issues with his husband, she is dependant on a man who has five wives. She can't do anything because this is acceptable to her Asian culture. You could tell she tired to cover it up and not care. She then admits to that what her husband is doing is wrong and is able to cope.

As for her choice of using the medical industry, this I don’t understand, I don’t understand what she was trying to prove, or just thought it’d be funny. Using this does make Victoria is from the Victorian era and very well reserved. She seems like she has more of a perfect generic relationship since her husband who is a doctor. Ken and Larry were the example of the medical industry or the main focus of trying to portray that anyways. When they tried to shut down the clinic in Jamaica and the succeeded, I guess this was the “reality” of the medical industry?

With the comedic tone to this play Loomer uses, it seems as if she is almost making fun of modern day society. This I admire. Wanda would be the closest example to modern day society, I say closest, because since she’s using stereotypes it’s not “real.”

The final product of her play was very blunt, the message was clear, and easy to comprehend. You didn't have to look too far or too deep to get this full extent of the play, which isn't a bad thing.

All those Fairy Tales that Drugged Us

A Current Studies done by Liz Grauerholz with Lori Baker-Sperry result in the fact that fairy tales may be a main support system in our idea of beauty and what were teaching our youth specifically girls. They say " We don't discourage children from reading fairy tales, even with these misleading stereotypes and failure to include minorities, but we strongly recommend parent or adult interaction while children read or view fairy tales."

They basically are though. Now I can perfectly understand where they are coming from and that entire article makes sense, even the historical facts used to support. Although I believe they should continue reading them these stories, I mean what else are we going to read to our youth? We can't read them chapter books because of lack of interest they'll have and what makes that more appropriate? I'd rather have women who think they need to be pretty who like reading rather than the complete opposite. Also the Grimm Fairy Tales were made in the 1800's to teach boys and girls their society roles, which makes perfect sense. We just held onto these classic stories for far to long, this isn't our fault, and it's no big deal. It's been far to engraved in our lives. In the article it insists on a parent aid to be there as if it were rated PG-13. It's a story. Sure it may make your little girl want to be pretty, and you're son either gay or masculine, like prince charming. The above quote when the two people on the study state that, then what's the point, what are we going to do to fix this? It doesn't make any sense. Also the reason why it's no big deal is because we don't get our entire influence of what are role in life from fairy tales anymore anyways. Fairy tales like everything else in our lives influence us, give me one influence and I can name 38472394 things wrong with it. The idea that they think famalies are actually reading, rather than watching the disney movies is a complete epidemic in itself.

False Advertising

The morality of Fat is an article talking about obesity and how majority of people are aware of this epidemic but still doing nothing.
In the Eye of the Beholder? an article of different cultural beauty and "westernised" beauty.
Both very different other than the fact they're both about a general idea of beauty to some extent. Acknowledging both discussions possibly my favorite thing said was said by Manny he brought to the surface that how strange it is that 74% of Americans are obese but then we're the ones being blamed for all the way too thin models. I had noticed that as well and wish we would have talked about that more, but I guess America is just really unhealthy.
From discussions you can't really learn facts because a discussion is usually held on facts the people already know, you sort of just realize things and start to open your personal perspective. One of the funniest things I heard was from Mike in the first discussion about "In the Eye of the Beholder?" He said something about how America has probably the most equality through out the sexes but at the same time we have the highest divorce rates, which I thought was hilarious and true. America is a little kid who doens't know how to deal with anything. I wish we would have came up with answers as of why westernised media has one of the biggest effects as well as what they're doing to persuade people so well. I was almost offended by the quote "The advent of coloured contact lenses has also enabled the darker skinned to westernise their eyes." Serisously what the F$^* does that mean? IT'S YOUR FAULT YOU BUY INTO IT. I'm tired of people thinking its the advertisment companies fault for your low self esteem. I don't even blame them for selling bleaching skin creams illegaly to people they buy it, they make a profit. They shouldn't sell it illegaly but that's authoritys stance not ours. Blaming the media is like blaming a fast-food resturaunt for making you fat, it doens't make any sense. People to be more strong minded as well as open minded. Its not "The more exposed we are to western media, the more we buy into it" it's the complete opposite taking away the big deal of it, over exposing it, takes away the glamor. Sure if you're weak minded Lerato Moloi is right.

Malian Women

The article of Mali women bleaching their skin is one of the most desperate things I have heard to embellish ones self. The point of the bleaching cream is so the women can become pallid, the reason of is apparently because the men find it beautiful and mesmeric. To do something this extreme for men then leading to society is useless if men or society only likes you because you use bleaching cremes that's salacious. The fact that women in Mali need to bleach their skin is sad, almost shows a lack of self esteem because no one there is really even born with white skin, if they're they'll soon become tan. Also just imagine how the young women there are like becoming ebullient over new bleaching creme. Women in Mali need to be jovial in the color of their skin, because according to a male musician Al Hassan Soumali its not mens fault he says "I don't think Malian men like bleached women, It's better for Malian women to change their minds." The bleaching cremes are sold under brand names like "Marie-Claire or Diana" which are apparently salubrious. Bleaching creme defeats the the purpose of culture.

Dove campaign video

1. What were your gut reactions to this commerical?
Within that 1 minute and 20 seconds I now realized what kind of kids we're breeding and the big fuss about self image. Now I personally don't really care that the media is doing this, okay whatever you buy into you're weak, I really don't care. Weak not meaning you realize one flaw in yourself, but weak meaning you let the media define your flaws. A reason I do care is because this is becoming more than just self imagine issuse but more like "if you look like this, you get this kind of life." So a lifestyle everythig engraved in our lives is obviously the most important and the media knows that.

2. What do you think about the central message of the commercial? Be specific and give examples to support your ideas.
With the example of a grade school girl it sort of portrays women as the target and all these images of "beauty" as the influence. Then at the end when it says "Talk to your daughter" it then shows that a mother-daughter relationship is good because you can be your daughter's influence.

Socrates cafe

Today in class while having a discussion on "The 4 Cardinal Virtues" was definitely frustrating for me, not because I felt like I was being targeted I'm fine with that, but because I don't even know. We couldn't even answer some of the questions which apparently isn't the point, and that's probably why I was so frustrated I realized a huge flaw in my thought process. I realized I just want to jump to the ending, I want to get somewhere not even fast, but all I need is an answer. According to Socrates and Plato though perfection and life isn't about where you go it's about how you get there, which I completely disagree with. I think where you go should be held responsible of what you've learned, just a simplified answer. When I asked what the point was about doing anything we know we'll never solve, they'd say its "what you learn out of the struggle." Then what didn't make sense to me was we say that its how you get there, that you did your best (biggest BS) but here we are looking for answers. So looking for answers isn't the point but then we need answers to perspectives, to get anywhere else. Then when Cortney responded to when I said that I don't know the point her response sounded like we try to answer these questions to get the answer of something else. She pulled examples that we wouldn't be as advanced or have electricity or anything, but I think that's something different than philosophy the question that led us to that answer is far different than pretty much what this entire discussion led back to "What is the entire world's perspective? or Well what if you have this perspective?"

Women...

1. How did women's roles in society differ from Athens and Sparta?
Athenian women did less because society thought they were capable of less. Spartan women did more because society thought they were capable of more. Both places thought they were doing nothing wrong. I find it hard to explain the differences and which is better or worse because there are so many perspectives to approach this at. Spartan women were raised more equally to men but less like women where as athenian women were raised like women. Which is worse relys on perspective. I don't think either place did better or worse with their women no matter what the under lying cause was that they were meant for health children. I feel in Athen they realized how emotional women were they got more out of their marriage than athenian women but were far more limited.

2. If the Greeks are considered so advanced, so culturally elite, why do you believe gender equality (equality between men and women) was not established?
Not that they were considered so advanced they were, and I guess sad to say the fact that they didn't have equality between men and women didn't really effect the Greeks negatively, but we don't know if it would have effected them in a positive manner either. Also to their knowledge they thought they were using women to their full potential. Women as wifes were apparently only good for healthy procreation, not even for entertaining their husbands. People didn't really have spare time for "fun" so women didn't really work, in sparta they could participate in sports and make babies. Not for love, and not for companionship.

3. Based on your understanding of women in Ancient Greek society, how do you think women were depicted by artists at this time?
I have seen a few sculptures of women from Greece but if it wasn't for that I wouldn't even think they exist other than what they thought godesses look like. Possibly a frail and tired frame of a women who is pregnant, since they didn't eat much. As for Sparta same thing just a more muscular frame.

November 27

1. What is so beautiful about youth?

By asking this it sounds like youth is better than middle-aged, old, etc which I think neither is better than the other. Although some people are just better than other people in different ways. Honestly, youth we don't know how to act or deal with anything more than half the time, and we are highly dependent. (I can say this, I'm 14.) I sort of don't see what is so beautiful about us.

Since I have to answer the question as goes the following:
Our thought process and what comes out, I wouldn't say beautiful because it is often times annoying but it sure as damn is interesting. When you ask a question to someone and the younger they are in their state of mind, the more blunt and less influenced it will be. I find the less influenced it will be part to be the most beautiful. It's hard to find someone who isn't saying something biast, influenced, or limited by circumstance. Our answers aren't influenced because we're innocent but because we haven't really learned to care. We can say something as simple as "love is a husband and wife who like eachother very much" or something as ridiculous as "love is lust." You'll never know what we are capable of, or which kind of us you have. Ignorance is bliss, but it isn't beautiful.

2. We know what "perfect" most likely means to Socrates by looking at ancient Greek sculpture and art and drawing inferences, but he doesn't describe this "perfect" human form. What are your thoughts on the idea of a "perfect" human form today? What is it in your culture for men? women? What are your thoughts surrounding those ideals?

PERFECTION DOES NOT EXIST, we can't even say we're close. This is so because there is not one person that is perfect, there are no standards what so ever, only what we and society puts on us which we don't even need to abide by. Have you noticed how the "pretty people" are always so confident it's not because they were born to be pretty, it's because they believed they were and made themselves fit into whatever they think is beautiful.

Beauty

Beauty: "The quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind." (Dictionary.com) This is an extremly vague deffenition which makes sense for a public site like Dictionary.com. Of course they can't state specifics, then again who could? The idea of beauty varies from person to person, but honestly all that talk about the media is an excuse for people with their self esteem slowly disentagrating.

This is an image of the musician: Conor Oberst he is beautiful in many different ways, which my idea of beauty must contain, diversity. His physical appeal is pleasing in the sense of: broad jaw line, dark, fairly short hair, an overly harsh stare and hazel eyes. (Which you cannot tell in the photo.) He has this over all style that he was dressed nice to go somewhere but something went wrong along the way, so he has a lack of effort while still looking good. I know his music which some of you may not, that adds to him, his music is phenomenal and beautiful all in its own. Also another thing the actual photography, nice lighting, amazing scenery, and again beautiful. This is him around the age 20, he is now 27, looks moderatly different, but still beautiful. What I am trying to get at is that beauty is a lot more than just the way something/someone looks.

The next image I have chosen is too big to view on here because there is writing on it, so click on the link then click on the imagine again and it should be big enough to read the writing.
This picture is the work of Alex Pardee an artist like Conor Oberst I know both there backgrounds. When Alex was 13 years old he was submitted to a mental institue, and that is where he started his drawing. The collage on the left of this photo some are drawn by him, some are just chosen by prefrance. The writing is long, but worth the read the flow of the poetry is where all the beauty lies for me, as well as how he writes, how randoms, but still focused on one question. This is the ultimate form of beauty, I think of beauty as art in any form it doesn't matter but just artistic and not generic, I am bored by today's beauty. I am tired of all of it and this probably one of the most biazzare pieces I have ever see.
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