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.