Women in Music

This week was about women in music. But I wanted to use this blog to talk about women in entertainment period. Women hold a very large flame in the entertainment world. Look at a successful black woman in Oprah. She is by far one of the most famous faces in the world and a very influential person for the black and female communities. Entertainment is seemingly ran by the women in America. A lot of movies are ran through what we think women will like..thus the name chick flicks. Now why don't people get offended by that, and if a man was to like these types of movies women think less of him. Now there are a few women out there who would like their man to enjoy these types of movie, but a lot of women don;t think it's right for a man to enjoy these movie as much as they do.

Look at a couple like Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. They even have a nickname that has their names meshed together. So you can't say that women are left out of this as well. Women are as important to the entertainment industry as any man is. Look at the Taylor Swift, Miley Cyrus, Keri Hilson, etc.. They are icons nowadays to a lot of people around the world. Both men and women alike.

So it is clear that the entertainment industry is nothing without women, but why is this. Is it because of their bodies? Eyes? Hands? No... It is because of talent.

Silly People

I have a question for everyone. No matter if you're a boy or a girl, do we care about what we look like? Now I understand there are those people who "don't care what they look like because they don't care what anyone thinks" but no matter what, everyone tends to have those days where they wake up look in the mirror and realize they don't want to wear this, or don't want their hair to look this way, etc... But we always care what people think, if we didn't care what people thought why get dressed at all. I feel like I'm just rambling, but for all of the differences that I have seen between men and women since I have been in this class I can't help but have the things that makes us all alike.

Now my article that I am supposed to read this week is about women in hip-hop. As we all know we have the women like Ciara, Keri Hilson, and Beyonce that are there for their beauty, bodies, and ability to sing. But what about the Lil' Kims, Missy Elliots, and Foxy browns? These women are pioneers of the hip-hop generation and they did, well a most of em, have done this with their words and not their bodies. I really enjoy it seeing this type of stuff because I listen to these women as often as I do Lil' Wayne. So there is so many things that are allowed to women nowadays. If you can be a successful female rapper, what's stopping you from being anything?

Another Week

I feel as if women don't get the short end of the stick as many people think they do. I mean, women to me do control just about everything. Women have the ability to persuade men to do just about anything. I feel they use their gender as a crutch from time to time. Thinking that they don't have the power to do a certain thing only because they are a female. That really has nothing to do with it in this day and age.

Now don't get me wrong, women do have to deal with a bunch of dickheads and shovanistic pigs day in and day out but don't we all. I just believe women tend to worry about their status in the world a little bit too much, although their status is actually VERY high up there.

Sexuality

Sex, sex, sex, sex, sex. That's what everything is about to day. Even the day during group 3 and 4's time in the Women's Studies building. I made a comment that I didn't mean to be sexual. But since we live in the 21st Century. That's what we think right from the get go. But who are we to blame. Ourselves? I think so. America glamorizes sex. Mostly with our horrible ideas of women as objects. Due to our strippers, pornographic movies, and just our daily lifestyles.

I really don't like the fact that we live this way. Because of the fact that it isn't just women who are bothered or hendered by this. Men have to deal witht he day to day problems of having men think that they are objects all of the time. So in the end, sexuality is a great thing. But it is also one of Americas largest cripples.

October 10th

So this week I was out in Missouri seeing my family that just moved back to America. It was great... but a few things I saw reminded me of this class. First off, we were in wal-mart and my mom refused to pay for the groceries she had got with my dad. She wasn't arguing with the cashier, she was arguing with my dad about the fact that she just bought dinner and didn't want to pay. I guess the whole "what's yours is mine and whats mine is yours" rule didn't mean anything to my mom when she married my dad some 20 odd years ago. But he called her a bitch in public in a joking manner. Only because there wasn't anyone in Wal-Mart at the time and he was doing this in a joking manner. My mother really took offense to this, but the cashier who happened to be a woman thought it was hilarious. I thought to myself, is that where we are in the world today, that a man can call a woman a bitch in front of another woman and she just laugh about it. My mom knew he was joking and didn't think much of it. But she did grab my hand on the way out and whispered to me "he may have called me a bitch, but I didn't pay for this shit." I LOVE MY MOM for silly ass reasons such as this.

I also went to a strip club this weekend with my brother for the first time. Now unlike many other men, I like to sit in the back of the place and just watch. I'm never the type to go up and grab on these girls, first of all I don't have enough confidence for that type of stuff, and second of all... they're nasty. But as I was watching I realized that even though these women are int he most provacative positions any woman can be in, they're in total control. They can make a man do whatever they want from where they are. So even though woman don't seem to think they control things and that it's a mans world. Look around and you'll see that their isn't that much truth to it.

Women in the workplace.

Why are women unappreciated in the workplace... or better yet. Why do women accept the fact that they are unappreciated in their workplace. Now I'm not trying to brag, but I have heard my mom talk about her days in the trenches of the cubical word and say how her superiors would have an idea, that she would take that idea, find a better way to do it and present it to the main man in charge. 80% of the time her idea was used.

If this isn't the signs of a women having value in her workplace, I don't know what else there is. Now I'm not saying my mom is the only woman to have this type of influence on the men in her workplace. But it does bring up the question, what is the difference between my mom and other women in the workplace. If my mom can do it, then many other women can do it. GO MOMMA!

Man I'm just trying out figure out what the drawing factor to frat boys are.. it is definitely not only myself that thinks this way neither. It is thought about by every man that isn't in a frat. Really what is the attraction. Besides money...

Now don't give me the "hater label just yet. I have a bunch of good friends who are in frats... I understand what they're all about. But is it only because you're in a sorority that you like being around them. I have been to many frat parties and I've thrown a lot of parties at my place with my roommates, and they don't hold a candle to ours. It is just something I don't understand.