getting started

my artifact: Fight club

What im saying: telling about body issues as well as equal scenarios.

Artifact: it's a film about a man with insomnia and how he copes with it while eventually starting a fight club as well as an under ground organization to reset the worlds banks.

Quotes both my jean Killbourne .” Real sexiness has to do with vitality and what is most unique about each other, our confidence in what we have to offer the world. It’s not about what we buy”

 “The image isn’t real: it’s artificial its constructed” these quotes are representive of body issues and how people deal with them through money or photo shop.

Fight Club

Fight Club is a movie that came out in the year 1999 that is about a character named the narrator who has come down with insomnia. He goes to see doctors and people just tell him he needs healthy natural sleep but he cant but he doesn't know why. so he starts to go to help group like groups about testicular cancer and groups about have parasites and other things after going to these meetings and crying he then can sleep. He than runs into two other Characters Tyler Durden and Marla Singer who we don't know much about just there names. the Narrator then becomes good friends with tyler they move in together and start a fight club  which a group that meets every Friday and they fight another member if the group for pure enjoyment. After a few weeks the group starts to get bigger and bigger and spread to other cities and things like that which people don't see coming. so Tyler starts what he calls project mayham which is just destruction of people everyday moral beliefs like fighting is bad and things like that. But it goes farther than that like destroying statues that show things that are bad from history or a piece of art that no one really understands. The movie goes on an entire hour about how people can tear down there own boundaries but only if they believe they can do so.

Video Games or Music

“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.” This is relevant in the gaming industry with things towards females characters with all the objectify qualities that games show whether it be female characteristic or just being able to prostitute females. even though things are put into said games as voluntary things which things you do not have to do but there is certain people that will do said things for incentives like in Grand theft Auto where it gives you better endurance or XP in other games.
“[The Media] is about creating a certain environment of images that we grow up in and become used to. After a while these images begin to [slowly and cumulatively] shape what we know and what we understand about the world" Video Games are a major part of pop Culture and even though people don't play video games almost everyone has knowledge of some video game. most games today have a male protagonist who at some point most save the girl like in Mario or the game it self is related to protecting women or things of that manor. Society today I believe while yes society is wrong for doing such things but it is more of a traditional way of doing games it self and some games stray away from that which is good like gears of war which is a very gory masculine game has switched to a female character which I believe is a good move on the companies part. But I also don't Believe this is the biggest problem with the gaming community while it is a problem which should change there are more problem that could be effected by a change in culture like this from games such as Mario all the way to games such as resident evil and games in between.

Critque #3 bell hooks

Bells quote of believe is a very true remark in todays society because of how people were raised and brought up in the world to be followers and not leaders. When I look around I see people who are to far impacted and let chose for them pop culture because they wanna fit in or not be who they really can be because who they see them selves as who they believe they are. Hooks is trying to say that pop culture is not trying to evolve the thought of equality but put everyone into categories to the point where we almost in a sense are still in the same profiling society we always have been in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EP5aqAC8PPY

In Fight Club the whole movie is about how we can break the social norms and be free to do anything we want for the good of the people. The movie goes into a deeper and darker turn because it uses the people fear of being different and breaking rules that people have set to keep everyone down. So they essentially tear down these barriers and reset society so that everyone is almost equal but they do it on a wider scale and reset everyone on a monetary scale because money is one of the many things that keeps people above other people.

Critique #2 Kids Stuff

In the text about Doc Mcstuffins I read about how the show is the new way Disney is going to power people. In Doc Mcstuffins she is a doctor for toys and how she takes care of them and shows responsibility for how she does things in a business manner. the video about Disney goes into details about how their movies are very stereotypical towards how men are superior to women and that is wrong. The movies also shows the physical characteristics that women and men have making them seem more sexual. When it comes to female characters the curves of a female are often made bigger while the muscles on a male are often brought to unrealistic sizes. Writers Critique Disney by saying they are stepping in new directions by bring positive characters like Doc Mcstuffins to a show that bring a more positive spin on people. On the other side of the spectrum they are also saying Disney is a bad company for making the image of males and females unrealistic and that females are stronger than what movies make them seem. The messages that Disney shows are mixed but its the older movies that shows things like Gaston and the manly view of these characters. While Doc Mcstuffins could bring a new generations of power kids that learned a lot because of a more equal culture in the tv shows they watched as kids

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vclTyFhyLXQ

these clips of spongebob show how the males in the shows are the only ones who go out and have jobs. while most spongebob episodes when you see the main female character she is in her home almost always doing something for science. Also it shows the how society can sometimes view men as stupid because Patrick and spongebob are the dumber of characters while Sandy a female character is dedicated to science and facts.

Pop Culture Critique #1

In the world that we live in today everything is run by companies and big corporations that look to get a leg up on the competition. This is done in multiple ways like propaganda and subliminal messages that can almost convince someone that this is a product to die for. But the Industry does something that is never really brought into the lime light on a major scale as a bad thing and that is to demoralize women in Ads. While watching Killing Us Softly Advertising Image of Women, we explored the topic of how women are portrayed in the media. One of the major points used in the whole idea of perfection and that perfection can not really be reached. Well with computer editing and photo shop companies can edit pictures and do what ever they want so that the women, can be thinner, taller, have different hair such things like this to make her more sexual. Another example that is brought up is how today society is completely focused on the female breast and that we tend to objectify the female body and breast. I believe that this happens way to much in society and it is something that will not change due to the fact that people love sex appeal. A third type of way women are objectified is by actually being turned into objects whether it be a beer can or a type of slimmer bottle women are used to get a point across towards men.                                                        

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this ad shows how even when it comes to something as running our country women are seen as lesser than man. this will change in society some day I just don't believe that day will be soon I think the culture in the world today is in a bad  place and will not be able to change from the place it is in for a long time.

alternative assingment

The topics that were explored through the two episodes that I watched were about Latinos and the police in the United States. I learned about the culture and styles of the Latinos in the east Los Angeles Area and how they live their life. I learned about how the police work in the Camden New Jersey area and how they approach every situation. Bell uses comedy to get the viewers to stay watching but also is available to make jokes with the people he is interviewing. the seriousness of the topics are nulled in a  manor of humor that still bring forward the racial topics and ideas practiced. The Latino stereotypes are brought to light but the culture that most people do not get to see like the music and art is relevant through the area.
The second episode about is the police and how they deal with stuff but they really don't start the episode targeting the wrong side of the police. the episode after they start to interview police as well as people in the area and the common people start to chew out the police. In the defense of the police the people don't give the police a chance to respond or defend them. The Police are not everywhere but they can only take a certain amount of calls with the amount of police officers they have and people can not always understand that.
The episodes are strongly related because the episodes interact between what people say and how they approach each other. The first episode is how the people believe they are profiled and that police are racist toward minorities in the Los Angeles area. While the second episode is the exact opposite of how everyone is against the police and that no one gives the police a chance if they have a problem. If people watched the show they would learn a lot about people and how each side see's everything it would have a positive effect on culture I believe.