A good movie that depicts a women as a sexual object, with no brains and being ditsy, is legally blonde. In this movie it is clearly seen that Elle Woods, is this peppy white female who is in a sorority, has money, and is very pretty. The movie shows how looks and money can get you some place like a prestigious sorority, good looking boyfriend and such but it also show the flip side of the story. How sometimes being this attractive women who wears pink, is a blonde, and has money can be taken as a joke. In the movie Elle is dumped by her boyfriend because he doesn't see her doing anything productive with her life because of the lifestyle she has. Her sorority as well as herself are seen as unintelligent women, that most of their peers don't take seriously. This film discusses oppression by beauty and intelligence. It shows in the that the women in the sorority are the ones wearing expensive designer clothes and only caring about what the latest style is. While this is being portray with Elle Woods, shes also being portray as this women,that no matter what people think of her will not give up til she completes her law career. The women in this film are with someone except Elle and her friend who does her nails. The only that the nail lady can get the dream guy she likes is if she acts sexy around him. So pretty much the film is selling out that women have to be sexy to get with guy she desperately wants, except Elle, she ends up with the lawyer who didn't just like her for her looks, he looked past that and was interested in her personality. The body type does play a role in this film, everyone is in somewhat skinny and pretty, most of them are smart and the others are there just for the looks. Elle is confident at school towards the end of the movie when she knows that she can actually do something without being told she s just another dumb blonde. In this movie sexuality is demonized in this movie a bunch of times. Since this movie is pretty much based on looks of a women, especially how men view them it goes well with what Jean Kilbourne said in her article about woman's depiction in advertisement, "Primarily girls are told by advertisers that what is most important about them is their perfume, their clothing, their bodies, and their beauty"(232). I agree with this because in this movie and many other movies similar to this, women have to look a certain way or act a certain way but if they are remotely a little smart then they are either not attractive enough or are too much to handle. Another article interesting was that of Abra Fortune Chernik, who tells her story of how advertisement, television, magazines etc, influence her to make drastic changes because of her image (599). Overall this movie is a good example of how women are depicted as sexual objects instead of viewing their personality
Work Cited page
Kilbourne, Joy."The more you subtract, the more you add."Kirk, Gwyn and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2010. 231-239
Chernik, Abra."The body Politic."Kirk, Gwyn and Margo Okazawa-Rey. Women's Lives: Multicultural Perspectives. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2010. 599-603
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Servive Learning Proposal
Service Learning Proposal
For Equal
(Formerly G.L.B.S.U. of UCF)
Jen Ackerman
Johana Vanegas
Jennifer Smith
Rachel Miles
Alexandria Bergeron
11 February 2010
Professor Nina Perez
Introduction to Women’s Studies, WST 3015
Community Partner: Equal at UCF
Address: P.O. Box 163245 • Orlando, FL • 32816-3245
Contact: Rebecca Marques
786-271-5382
RMarques@knights.ucf.edu
Equal at UCF Community Profile
Mission Statement:
Equal's mission is to provide a safe environment for students to interact and network with each other, engage in social activities, and develop personal character without fear of discrimination on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, and to provide support and resources for students who have experienced such discrimination.
Political/ Social Basis:
Equal's vision is a campus environment where GLBTQ students can feel both a sense of self-worth and pride in their individual diversity and a sense of community and belonging, and where all students can expect to be treated equally, regardless of their actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
Equal strives to educate its members and the university community about sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender issues, and about issues that affect the GLBTQ community and provide opportunities for the personal and professional growth and development of its members.
Equal’s Needs:
To fully utilize the student body, Equal will need all of its volunteers to be active and committed to our vision of equality. To make sure our goals get met, volunteers will have to expect rigorous schedule of deadlines and work. Work will include behind-the-scenes organizing as well as field work of petitioning and tabling.
The following is a proposal to outline the needs, rationale and feasibility for a service learning project to benefit GLBT student body and faculty. The following proposal contains background on the need for and benefits of getting gender identity listed on the Non-Discrimination policy project, an outline of the work I plan to do, the rationale for its inclusion in WST 3015, and a scheduled timeline. This proposal may need to be revised after beginning the project and must be flexible to meet the needs of the both the service learning project and the community partner.
Need for:
Volunteers who are committed to working for a safer campus that protects its GLBT students and faculty. Volunteers will be expected to help in any way possible including: helping promote the event, outreach to other campus organizations to raise awareness, collect signatures, table in front of the union, and do other various technical tasks.
Plan Proposal:
Our plan is to volunteer for Equal at UCF under Rebecca Marques who is organizing the petition and protest of UCF’s Non- Discrimination Policy. As of right now UCF’s Non-Discrimination Policy does not include gender identity
under the list of minorities currently covered. We will be tabling, petitioning, organizing and participating in the protest and hopeful addition of gender identity to the Non- Discrimination Policy. This project meets the need of the our
Community Partner Equal because one of their goals is to “create a community where gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (GLBTQ) students and their allies can feel safe, welcome, and proud, where they can interact and grow with out fear of harassment or discrimination.” Presently the GLBTQ community on our campus is vulnerable to abuse and intolerance which is something that needs to be changed immediately.
Women’s Studies:
Since one of the core principles of feminism is the belief in social, political, and economic equality of all sexes and people, we believe as a group that this project completely encompasses the value and ideals of this course. We are fighting for the protection of this minority, so this group of people feels safe under the Non- Discrimination Policy and on our campus. We are hoping that this project results in more awareness of intolerance, specifically for the
transgendered, and an education in equality for all.
Action:
This project has already begun with meetings and will continue with persistent planning and organizing. The first steps of the project include off campus out-reach and contacting those in the greater community who could also support us. Initially the five members of this group will be Rebecca Marques’ main group of volunteers. We will work directly under her and assist her with paper work, petition-making, tabling and recruiting. Each of one of us will have different responsibilities including creating and running the website (event page) for our project, collecting and sending our petition sheets and letters to the President of the UCF, organizing and planning the tabling efforts, running and assisting in the actual protest for our cause, and lastly fulfilling recruiting and promoting for the event.
As a group we will be working under Rebecca Marques who is an active Equal member on the UCF campus. We will need to be devoted and very serious about the cause in order to really achieve the equality we are striving for.
Timeline:
Event page created February 12th
Group Meeting February 15th
Petition forms created and distributed February 15th
to members
Speak and attend EQUAL meeting February 16th
Group Meeting February 19th
Group Meeting February 24th
Informational video February 26th
Video showcase to EQUAL March 2nd
Group Meeting March 2nd
Newspaper article March 8-11th
Group Meeting March 16th
Tabling and signature gathering March 1st- April 22nd
Emails sent to President Hitt March 1st- April 22nd
Group Meeting April 26th
Event (petition turn in) Tentative date April 28th
For Equal
(Formerly G.L.B.S.U. of UCF)
Jen Ackerman
Johana Vanegas
Jennifer Smith
Rachel Miles
Alexandria Bergeron
11 February 2010
Professor Nina Perez
Introduction to Women’s Studies, WST 3015
Community Partner: Equal at UCF
Address: P.O. Box 163245 • Orlando, FL • 32816-3245
Contact: Rebecca Marques
786-271-5382
RMarques@knights.ucf.edu
Equal at UCF Community Profile
Mission Statement:
Equal's mission is to provide a safe environment for students to interact and network with each other, engage in social activities, and develop personal character without fear of discrimination on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression, and to provide support and resources for students who have experienced such discrimination.
Political/ Social Basis:
Equal's vision is a campus environment where GLBTQ students can feel both a sense of self-worth and pride in their individual diversity and a sense of community and belonging, and where all students can expect to be treated equally, regardless of their actual or perceived sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression.
Equal strives to educate its members and the university community about sexuality, sexual orientation, and gender issues, and about issues that affect the GLBTQ community and provide opportunities for the personal and professional growth and development of its members.
Equal’s Needs:
To fully utilize the student body, Equal will need all of its volunteers to be active and committed to our vision of equality. To make sure our goals get met, volunteers will have to expect rigorous schedule of deadlines and work. Work will include behind-the-scenes organizing as well as field work of petitioning and tabling.
The following is a proposal to outline the needs, rationale and feasibility for a service learning project to benefit GLBT student body and faculty. The following proposal contains background on the need for and benefits of getting gender identity listed on the Non-Discrimination policy project, an outline of the work I plan to do, the rationale for its inclusion in WST 3015, and a scheduled timeline. This proposal may need to be revised after beginning the project and must be flexible to meet the needs of the both the service learning project and the community partner.
Need for:
Volunteers who are committed to working for a safer campus that protects its GLBT students and faculty. Volunteers will be expected to help in any way possible including: helping promote the event, outreach to other campus organizations to raise awareness, collect signatures, table in front of the union, and do other various technical tasks.
Plan Proposal:
Our plan is to volunteer for Equal at UCF under Rebecca Marques who is organizing the petition and protest of UCF’s Non- Discrimination Policy. As of right now UCF’s Non-Discrimination Policy does not include gender identity
under the list of minorities currently covered. We will be tabling, petitioning, organizing and participating in the protest and hopeful addition of gender identity to the Non- Discrimination Policy. This project meets the need of the our
Community Partner Equal because one of their goals is to “create a community where gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and queer (GLBTQ) students and their allies can feel safe, welcome, and proud, where they can interact and grow with out fear of harassment or discrimination.” Presently the GLBTQ community on our campus is vulnerable to abuse and intolerance which is something that needs to be changed immediately.
Women’s Studies:
Since one of the core principles of feminism is the belief in social, political, and economic equality of all sexes and people, we believe as a group that this project completely encompasses the value and ideals of this course. We are fighting for the protection of this minority, so this group of people feels safe under the Non- Discrimination Policy and on our campus. We are hoping that this project results in more awareness of intolerance, specifically for the
transgendered, and an education in equality for all.
Action:
This project has already begun with meetings and will continue with persistent planning and organizing. The first steps of the project include off campus out-reach and contacting those in the greater community who could also support us. Initially the five members of this group will be Rebecca Marques’ main group of volunteers. We will work directly under her and assist her with paper work, petition-making, tabling and recruiting. Each of one of us will have different responsibilities including creating and running the website (event page) for our project, collecting and sending our petition sheets and letters to the President of the UCF, organizing and planning the tabling efforts, running and assisting in the actual protest for our cause, and lastly fulfilling recruiting and promoting for the event.
As a group we will be working under Rebecca Marques who is an active Equal member on the UCF campus. We will need to be devoted and very serious about the cause in order to really achieve the equality we are striving for.
Timeline:
Event page created February 12th
Group Meeting February 15th
Petition forms created and distributed February 15th
to members
Speak and attend EQUAL meeting February 16th
Group Meeting February 19th
Group Meeting February 24th
Informational video February 26th
Video showcase to EQUAL March 2nd
Group Meeting March 2nd
Newspaper article March 8-11th
Group Meeting March 16th
Tabling and signature gathering March 1st- April 22nd
Emails sent to President Hitt March 1st- April 22nd
Group Meeting April 26th
Event (petition turn in) Tentative date April 28th
Monday, February 8, 2010
A wive's favorite gift
Kenwood Ads in the 1950's. Telovation. 27th of July 2009. Web 8th of Feb 2010
As I was browsing for an ad, i came across this one and it was surprising how deliberately it portrays women as the maid of the house, pretty much. In this ad you see both the man and women happy because they have this machine that makes it a little easier for the wife to make dinner. She’s shown with a chef's hat pretty much letting the audience know that she will be doing the cooking while the husband relaxes and waits dinner. I believe this ad in the 1950's was probably accepted and taken as a normal thing, but if something like this would appear now, there would be a lot of women who would find this disrespectful, because it shows that women are only good for one thing, cooking, helping around the house and taking care of the kids. This ad also shows how the woman is dress up to cook and how she has to be flawless when her husband is around. This ad is not realistic at least now in our time because of how much we as a society have changed throughout the years, it would have been realistic in the 5o's and nobody would have taken this ad as an insult, probably to those in the 1950's this was normal. This ad is trying to sell the product but also behind the message it’s trying to tell the audience that even though it does pretty much everything the wife still has to cook because that's what they are good for, just to cook. It’s actually pretty disrespectful for me as women to read this ad because the company that put this ad out didn't take in consideration how women can be, they can be executives, lawyers, chefs, professor, etc but no in this ad they are simply just the cooks of the house and nothing else. This portrays the women negatively but since it was printed in the 50's it was probably a positive image. This is a definitely a sexist ad, why can’t it be the other way around show the man with the chef hat and making his wife a dinner? As Judith Lorber said in her article is that throughout the years men and women have been slowly changing role (kirk p.64), you now see men in some commercials doing the laundry, well I’ve only seen it a few times on the Spanish channel but it shows how far we have come as a society to accept these changes. The body image in this ad shows her resting on her husband back but also the way that she is smiling makes you wonder if she is really happy to have one of these machines and if she is happy with her husband. Overall this ad pretty much shows that no matter what new kitchen invention is invented the wife still has to cook the food, still has to attend to her husbands needs and do domestic chores around the house.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Womens Suffragist: who is and who isn't?
The connotation, emotional response or association, with a word sometimes can hold greater meaning to it than the actual definition itself. Comparing both Iron Jawed Angels and Mary Poppins it is easy to see how many different reactions the word suffragist can evoke. In Mary Poppins the women’s suffragist is Mrs. Banks, a wife and mother to the Banks children. In this movie’s representation, the word suffragist is seen in a comedic light almost to the point of satire. Mrs. Banks is a strong supporter of the movement but is portrayed at times as aloof and nonsensical. In Iron Jawed Angels the word suffragist has two kinds of connotations: one being the connotative feelings of the characters in the movie based on the society of the time, and the connotative feelings the movie itself is arising to its audience. The society that Paul and Burns, the main characters of the movie based on real life activists, face is strikingly antagonistic to their cause and holds the word suffragist in the same manner we would hold some racial epithets today. The movie however, is clear in the positive reinforcement of the word to its audience, who are the protagonists. While both main characters are active suffragists, the extent and manner that they remain active are completely different. Alice Paul dedicates her life to the cause, which leads her inevitably, to most of the challenges she faces. Mrs. Banks on the other hand, is active in rallies and marches of the sort in her best wear. She speaks to others about the wonderful women who head up the rallies and get arrested, but ultimately remains free and goes home to her wealthy estate unwilling to sacrifice as much as her admired leaders. Although, a whimsical portrayal of a woman suffragist, I do believe Mrs. Banks was an accurate portrayal of one type of woman suffragist. While Paul reflects the serious and painful side of the struggle, Mrs. Banks represents the women who didn’t sacrifice anything for the movement but stood ready to accept the benefits. Like the women that oppose Paul as a “radical” in the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Mrs. Banks would rather been SEEN at the rallies than actually fight for what she hopes they will produce. Mrs. Banks also portrays female stereotypes of the time by being obviously concerned with her appearance and set on the singing and marching aspect of the movement rather than the less appealing parts. Alice Paul on the other hand struggles through the stereotypes of the day to prove herself as a serious suffragist, and overall human being. Male relationships to the women suffragist are both relatively avoided. Alice has a positive relationship in the beginning of the movie but is cut short due to her commitment. Most other males in the film are in oppressive roles, where as in Mary Poppins, her husband is shown as neglectful rather than oppressive. I believe both women are suffragists, in the aspect of supporting women’s rights and remain so throughout the movie, although Mrs. Banks does want to spend more time with her children doesn’t mean she still doesn’t support the cause. Society connotatively alters words according to the climate of the time. Women suffragist could be compared to any other civil rights movement of the time and we are lucky to be standing on their shoulders today.
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