You get what you want, you want what you get.

I really do not watch too much of the media, I am aware of what is going on in the world, but I don't watch the news or anything of that sort. Sometimes I feel like the news exposes events that are happening that are not really of that much interest to me. I watched the news one morning and for the first 15 minutes I was watching it, all I got out of it was how Kim Kardashian came out with a new work out video and Lindsay Lohan is going back to rehab for the 100th time. Yeah, not too interested in that. I feel as if the media has a huge negative impact on society, mostly due to the fact that the news only portrays negative information. I feel as if, the reason why the news puts out negative information is because it makes people feel better about themselves. When people are watching negative information, such as kidnapping, drugs, or rape, it makes them feel better because it’s not happening to them. I feel like that’s where the saying “I never thought this would happen to me” comes in. If the news only put out positive information, like winning the lottery, cancer survivors, or the people in Chili surviving being underground for 90 days (true story). Then it would make them feel worse about themselves, “why couldn’t that happen to me?” or “how did they get so lucky?” I think that’s the main reason why negative information is put out.
During the elections a few weeks ago, “negative campaigning” was happening. Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown were not focusing on themselves and the positivity they could bring to their country, but more of the bad things that they could show about each other. At a women’s convention, Matt Laure asked Whitman and Brown if they could stop bashing each other and focus more on themselves. Brown stated that he would be up to stop if Whitman did, but Meg Whitman stated that “she would not stop because she needs to expose what a bad man Jerry Brown was.” The media and news are all negativity, and if that is all that we’re exposed to, then that’s going to have a toll on how we live OUR lives and affect the decisions that we make.
There are three main news channels that go on at night. The three people that host the shows are Katie Couric, Brian Williams, and Diane Sawyer. Statistics have shown that out of the three shows, the show that consistently gets t he most positive ratings is the one that Brian Williams hosts. Is there a coincidence that the show that gets the most ratings is hosted by a male? I don’t think it’s a coincidence, I feel that men get taken more seriously in the media than women do, and there are statistics to prove it. I think it has to do something with sexism, I’m not sure, one day I’ll do more research and find the facts, in the mean time, it will just be all my opinion.

Female or Male?

While reading Written on The Body, I was wondering what gender the narrator was throughout the whole novel. Initially, before reading the novel I already had my mind set on a female, the reason being because the class is about Gender, Image, and Rhetoric and we have been discussing a lot about homosexuality as well as intersexuality. So of course, going into the book I already have my mind set on that the narrator is a female just based off the class. Actually reading the novel, I wasn't exactly sure. The narrator has love affairs with plenty of females who are married, which I know happens a lot these days. Yet, like I discussed in my last blog, how many females would actually cheat on their husbands with other man...and then end up going back to their husband? I'm sure the main reason why females would even cheat on their spouse is due to their marriage is boring, they do the same rituals every day and they stop having sex. So most females cheat on their husbands with another male who can give them the satisfaction that they're husband can not. Now, I am not an expert in a situation like this because I have not been exposed to or had a first hand experience with something like this, but that is just based off my instincts. If a females will cheat on their husband with another man, they will most likely leave their husband for this man (if things get serious) based on the fact that they are no longer happy in their relationship, but like i said, I am not expert.

Now a married woman cheating on their husband with another females is a completely different story. I believe if a woman is going to cheat on their husband with another man (being previously bi sexual or not) they are more likely to do it just for the experience. Obviously the woman likes males, since they married one but the thrill of a different experience may cause them to cheat, especially if they meet another female that they are attracted to physically or non-physically. Yet in the end, of course, they go back to their married life for the experience they had was just an experience.

While reading the novel I was thinking about this just to try to figure out what gender the narrator actually was, I was leaning more towards the female throughout the first few pages but my thoughts were fully set on the narrator being a female when I reached about page 70. There is a part in the book when the narrator is talking about an ex-girlfriend and how insane she was. The narrator was stating that she was only able to see the girl during certain times of the day and that she bred rubber plants. She then stated the girl locked her out of the greenhouse and left the narrator in he/she's "mickey mouse one piece" at that point, i had my mind set. The narrator was a female...was she intended to be a female? I don't really know.