DIS FAKE BLISS RIGHT HERE AWW YEAAAA
TIRED AS FUCK
NEED SOMETHING TO KEEP ME AWAKE WTF OR IM GOING TO PASS OUT ON THIS COUCH
I suggest all females watch this.
*i suggest all humans watch this.
If you haven’t watched this yet, you really should.
This is a must, girls and boys.
I agree that everyone should watch this. This is one of the few videos on female representation in the media that at least tries to point out that the way females are represented has a negative effect on everyone, not just women.
I love that this`touches also on how media affects men, but wow. Stereotypes are perpetuated by television more than in reality, and they are so skewed because they have to be provocative or funny or any number of things that aren’t complete or real enough.
This affects not only women and men, but race, gays and lesbians, trans people, all people.
We all struggle against what we are supposed to be, what we are told we should be, and yet when positions in media and PR change, the image doesn’t. Because people get those positions by conforming to that image, and breaking out risks loss.
This is why it is so hard for anyone to be who they really are, because they are so busy being what other’s expect so as not to be harassed for not being what they are supposed to be.
Oh man, Geena Davis. I love her with all -y heart.
All my followers should watch this video
Everyone needs to watch this and see how harmful misrepresentation and perpetuating harmful stereotypes are not just to a minority group, but to everyone.
Only by adapting a new way of thinking, by treating everyone equally, and even eroding gender roles, can we influence our peers and perpetuate something good.
At 3:20ish, Jane Fonda claims that “if what gets put out there that creates our consciousness [by the media] gets created by men, then we’re not going to make any progress.”
Wait, what? Why is a media created by men the cause of our stagnancy? Is this not essentially taking the other extremist viewpoint? I think what she means to say is that a media lacking variety (in this case, a lack of female representation) is detrimental to progress. Such would make infinitely more sense, seeing as the statement is generally true and applicable in every facet of life. (and essentially at the crux of the feminist argument)
At 3:46, Jennifer Pozner claims that the media companies are “giving us what the media companies and advertisers want and just packing it to make it sound like it’s our fault, and it’s not.”
Okay. So, what do we want? What are we looking for? If I’m not mistaken, the media and advertising businesses have been researching their material for a longass time, and I’m pretty damn sure they know what the people want. I mean, clearly, we might not necessarily “want” female bodies to be objectified like they are on a moral basis, but apparently our subconscious desires are overpowering any moral objections we might have to media advertising, because it looks like we’re still buying into that shit. (or maybe I just completely misunderstood what she was trying to say when she said “want,” meh, whatever)
At 5:05, Jackson Katz claims that male dominance is not “genetically predestined. That’s learned behavior.”
Alright, Jackson. Where’s your evidence for this? I’d actually have to agree with him, but it irks me that he makes this claim without support.
Okay, now we reach the funniest part of the video. Skip to 5:07 and just look at this dude. Just look at him.
“I am not one to conform to the ‘we need to be hyper-masculine and we need to be misogynistic stereotypes.’ um, and it really puts a lot of pressure on me when I have relatives who’ve grown up with this phenomenon who attempt to put me on this path, but i’m not ready for it.”
Well, no shit. Just take a look at yourself. Society clearly hasn’t been conducive to your growth as a ‘hyper-masculine misogynist.’ Of course you’re not going to be on any path similar to those of your relatives. Once again, your position in society has been re-inforced by gender stereotypes. I think it’s funny that they include this kid in the video.
The environment I’ve found myself in has been conducive to a slight paradigm shift in my thought patterns.
I expected a bit differently from a school that places so much emphasis on its “diversity,” but I’ve realized that UCLA’s idea of “diversity” is infinitely more superficial than intellectual. I’ve encountered people from a variety of different races, socio-economic backgrounds, and political views; however, I have yet to find someone who deviates from the norm in terms of thought patterns. I can easily predict what the average person thinks about common topics of interest and how the average person reacts to common situations.
This really shouldn’t come as a surprise to me; the application process doesn’t emphasize intellectual curiosity. Moreover, the majority of college students somehow entertain themselves with the typical party-life that lacks both creativity and novel attempts at fun. Even more so, the majority of us freshman are simply looking to fit in and establish ourselves within this new environment…so, it might be a bit too soon for people to be revealing their oddities. I really hope that such is the case…and maybe sooner or later people will start revealing their weirdness. I like weirdness. Everything is so linear right now.
On an interesting side note, I’ve found that people are either less interested in their academic success or just academically unintelligent. I really can’t tell whether people are simply more interested in more valuable things in life or just less academically capable than I thought; nevertheless, the fact that the people here are less interested in their grades than the people in high school (including me) were both pleases and worries me.
Back to the point at hand, I’ve definitely been enjoying myself here, but I still feel a lack of the weirdness in my personality that was so characteristic of me in high school. I’ve actually been spending so much time with other normal people that I’ve lost track of myself.
This place is a fucking hotbed of opportunity to be weird as fuck and I’m not taking advantage of it. I’ve already exposed a few of my abnormalities to some floormates and their reactions were pretty typical. I guess my floor is more of an experimental laboratory than it is a place to confide my strangeness in. I’m still on the lookout for people whom I find interesting. I feel like I’m going to explode with all of my pent-up weirdness if I don’t find someone interesting soon. or maybe i’ll just start posting more on tumblr. probably the latter.
Really, I just need some more personal space. During high school, I had hours upon hours to simply sit down and think…about whatever. Lately, I’ve found no time to think. I’m always studying or talking. So, this is good. I like posting on tumblr. It helps me think.
(via absurdreasoning)
instead of motivational messages in your head like “Come on! You can do it!” you have glorious thoughts along the lines of “THIS RUN IS AS PURPOSELESS, PAINFUL, AND MEANINGLESS AS YOUR FUCKING LIFE IS”
An older Jewish gentleman marries a younger lady and they are very much in love. However, no matter what the husband does sexually, the woman never achieves orgasm. Since a Jewish wife is entitled to sexual pleasure, they decide to ask the rabbi.
The rabbi listens to their story, strokes his beard, and makes the following suggestion: “Hire a strapping young man. While the two of you are making love, have the young man wave a towel over you. That will help the wife fantasize, and should bring on an orgasm.”
They go home and follow the rabbi’s advice. They hire a handsome young man, and he waves a towel over them as they make love. But it doesn’t help, and she is still unsatisfied. Perplexed, they go back to the rabbi.
“Okay”, says the rabbi, “Let’s try it again, only reversed. Have the young man make love to your wife, and you wave the towel over them.”
Once again, they follow the rabbi’s advice. The young man gets into bed with the wife, and the husband waves the towel. The young man gets to work with great enthusiasm and the wife soon has an enormous, room-shaking, screaming orgasm.
The husband smiles, looks at the young man and says to him triumphantly, “Schmuck; THAT’S the way to wave a towel!”
- ( This is a logic joke referring to the idea of the “Post hoc ergo propter hoc,” or in other words: “After this, therefore, because of this.” Correlation, not causation.)
Another example would be: ” ‘Most people hooked on heroine started with marijuana.’ True, but even more started with milk.”
- ( Plato and a Platypus)
“An optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds.
A pessimist fears that this is so.”
- Plato and a Platypus ( Leibniz argued that this world is the greatest world because God is all-powerful and morally perfect. He did not deny that there is no evil; rather, he stated that for God to have created the world in any other way would have resulted in even more evil. Hence, the joke.)
A ninety-year-old man went to the doctor and said, “Doctor, my eighteen-year-old wife is expecting a baby.”
The doctor said, “Let me tell you a story. A man went hunting, but instead of a gun, he picked up an umbrella by mistake. When a bear suddenly charged at the man, he picked up the umbrella, shot the bear, and killed it.
”The man said, “Impossible. Someone else must have shot the bear.”
The doctor said, “My point exactly.”
- Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar(So how is this related to philosophy? It’s supposed to illustrate the concept of “Argument from Analogy” - which basically says that if two outcomes are similar, they must have a similar cause)
There will probably be some generalisations here, but it’s based on my own personal experience with people, I’m not trying to make a universal statements about people.
Despite the elitism and superiority complexes most Philosophy students have (which I don’t actually mind) I find the reason I…
Hah, I can relate, somewhat. Not really though. Just a little. Maybe. I’m not sure.
(via absurdreasoning)
