What I'm going attempt to do is talk more about the class discussion than the actual texts. Though some text ideas will come up, it was just much harder for me, not coming from any background in this area at all, to understand a lot of the things the text was trying to say so far.
The biggest thing I noticed from yesterday's class was the difference between the guys' and the girls' posters. Not so much in qualities that society obviously wants in each to be different, but in how the groups themselves actually made the posters. For example, in every single women's group, the poster they made had what society wanted of them, and what they individually believed a woman should be. However, in the men's groups, there was just one definition of what a man should be. Not what society viewed they should be like, but what we thought they should be. This really got me to thinking, has the media/society/whatever it's to be called, influenced men that much that we no longer know what we want to be? Or is this just the image that all men hope to fulfill? I would have to argue that it is not the image that all men hope to, or even want to fit.
But then again, perhaps the reason there is a distinction is because from a woman's point of view, the society/media seems to be pulling them in different directions. They patronize the "blondie" actress that seems to be the perfect looking girl and have the ditzy attitude and is dependent on the man. At the same time, however, there seems to be a pull in the direction of women like Hilary Clinton, Elin Nordegren, (Tiger Woods' wife) and even Sandra Bullock now that her and her husband and not together. So there seems to be the double image going on here with woman. On the one hand the perfect woman is the blond girl that doesn't know her right from left but looks good. And on the other hand, you have the "new" perfect woman seeming to be this independent, I can make it on my own whether I'm the hottest woman alive kind of woman.
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