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COMMERCIAL IRONY

If you think commercials are trying to tell you something, they are... This commercial shows that the brand isn't trying to pull one over us, but eventually we know from class that it will be the reason we find it dull again.

Walk a mile in her shoes men in heels

So the event went out as a success! Men walking even RUNNING in heels! This turn of gender roles while comical made me very happy to see for other reasons. To see the football players was the best I say... Grown, athletic, huge men running through an obstacle course in heels that obviously they never figured to see themselves in. One of the guys even BROKE a heel! How many of us women can say they've felt that pain before? I do wish more men did the heels, but I know that next year will be better, and years to come will keep it improving. Men felt the roles of the women and the ideology we hold against women. Assault is wrong, and hopefully these men and all the women that participated realized it. In my next post I'll get onto the topic of the ass-slapper, but for now let's leave that story out of this... Men rarely get this kind of opportunity to show their support for women and for their struggles with assault. I'm very glad today happened for this campus, it shows that not everyone here is a bunch of ass-wipes who don't understand what the difference is between assault and a joke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4VEh4Mlkd4

The link is to a clip of the South Park episode about the ridiculous standards of facebook. Who really has time to be on social networks all the time to keep up with everyone? Well after today's discussion in class I've come to realize, this cyber reality, IS our reality. Notice from today's class how everyone had some story about facebook, funny or creepy, facebook, youtube, myspace... we might have mental breakdowns if the world just all of a sudden didn't have the internet. Makes me wonder, is my entire generation and those to follow, going to have the necessary skills as human beings to interact socially if these networks don't work all of a sudden. I'd like to stay positive though and hope it never fails.

In another thought to todays class, how is it that so many of us don't see the problem that the social networking can cause. We let so many of our children use these sites and then are surprised to see our child being victim to molestation from pedophiles. Seriously, think about why today's young are exponentially becoming obese when 20 years ago, that type of thing was not an issue for children. We fail to see some legitimate connections between things like children's obesity and the over use of computers and TVs. Maybe I'm just stretching it too far, but I seriously have a feeling the more these sites are used by younger and younger children, the more and more we will see an decrease in social skills.

NO LOGO -- opinion

Yesterday's class was about the video 'No LOGO' with Naomi Klein and the whole hype around brand logos and the globalization of that logo. Our class got into a huge discussion of how 'our generation' is basically numbed to the whole business of globalization and that to catch our attention and get us to change is an overwhelming task even to merely talk about. I really wanted to make sure that I didn't make myself sound like I think globalization is a bad thing or that the big cooperations of our world are somehow tearing our society a part. I think what is more important is to see the difference in our culture to other cultures that don't have such massive amounts of media and advertising in our faces all the time. I would think that somewhere between the two extremes is a nirvana of happy consumers, workers, and a place where all people are critical analysts. I think this is where our discussion of culture jamming and pranking comes into play. We wanted an answer to how do we keep the big heads at the top to come down and play on a fair field... well, I think although some lack the desire to be apart of a resistance, most people our age would be thrilled to, for the lack of a better phrase, bring the man down. In my opinion, our generation lacks a leader and a message. Our actions are to show others that this kind of extreme globalization and logo mania isn't something we should fall trap to. By pranking the message is sent. Then to recruit people to a cause and a stance, you need a credible leader for people to rally behind. Hopefully the future will bring emerging new leaders that can bring the people together to be smarter, more analytical, and more aware of what the 'big man' is doing.